1 minute One of the accused in the Joshlin Smith disappearance case is back on the stand in the Western Cape High Court sitting in Saldanha Bay today. Steveno van Rhyn continues to testify in a trial within a trial. LIVE STREAM:
Image of man in handcuffs. 2 minutes A man wanted by KwaZulu-Natal police in connection with a string of extortion cases in the Mariannhill and Durban areas has been arrested in Midrand, Gauteng. Linda Hlongwa has also been allegedly linked to the murder of his girlfriend and her mother that took place in Pinetown, west of…
ANC leaders together with Chief Albert Luthuli and Griffiths Mxenge’s family attend the re-opening of the inquests into their deaths at the Pietermaritzburg High Court in KwaZulu-Natal on April 14, 2025. 1 minute Former late African National Congress (ANC) President Chief Albert Luthuli’s daughter-in-law has described how the apartheid security police closely monitoring their home….
Healthcare worker prepares a vaccination 1 minute The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) is urging South Africans to get vaccinated ahead of the influenza season. This year, the flu season began in the last week of March, four weeks earlier than in 2024. According to pneumonia surveillance in public hospitals, it’s the earliest start…
Waterfall in Augrabies Falls National Park 1 minute Police in the Northern Cape have launched a search operation after a 66-year-old visitor from Cape Town was reported missing at the Augrabies Falls National Park. The missing man booked into the park last week Thursday. It is believed that he went hiking on Friday and failed…
Person in prison 1 minute A 57-year-old Northern Cape man has been sentenced to 18 years in prison by the Kakamas Regional Court for raping an 11-year-old girl in 2022. The man accosted the minor at Augrabies when she was walking home. When the child refused to accompany him to the shop, he forcefully dragged…
African Congress for Transformation leader and former African National Congress Secretary-General and Free State Premier, Ace Magashule. 1 minute The trial of former Free State Premier Ace Magashule who is accused number 13 in the asbestos roof removal case involving R255 million is finally under way at the High Court in Bloemfontein with indications that…
CRL Rights Commission chairperson Thoko Mkhwanazi-Xaluva. 2 minutes Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Rights (CLR) Commission has raised concerns that religious leaders who work closely with children are not being vetted against the National Sex Offender Register. The CRL Rights Commission has established a committee, comprising religious leaders, to investigate ongoing abuses in churches. This comes…
Shaft 11 of a disused mine at Stilfontein. 3 minutes Only 12 bodies of illegal mine workers, who had died in abandoned mines in Stilfontein in North West, have been positively identified by their families. Seventy-eight bodies were brought to the surface in a combined effort by the community and a government led retrieval operation….
Tax-related material on a desk. 1 minute Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Finance in Parliament, Joe Maswanganyi, says the decision to implement the proposed 0.5% Value Added Tax (VAT) increase rests solely with Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana. The proposed increase has drawn disagreement from members of the Government of National Unity (GNU). If implemented,…
