Drone with a beach in the background 1 minute A woman has drowned on Shelly Beach in Margate. Meanwhile, a search operation is ongoing for a man who remains missing while swimming. Police have initiated an inquest docket to investigate the circumstances surrounding the incident. NSRI spokes person Craig Lambinon explains,”Eyewitnesses reported a male and…
Spoke can be seen along Constantia Nek. 1 minute Table Mountain National Park Fire Management Department has deployed ground firefighting crews and volunteer services to contain a fire above Constantia Nek. Several crews are on-site to assist with containment efforts. SANParks spokesperson, JP Louw says hikers are advised to avoid using the road leading up…
Australia seamer Spencer Johnson. 2 minutes Australia seamer Spencer Johnson claimed a maiden five-wicket haul in international cricket as the hosts beat Pakistan by 13 runs in the second Twenty20 International on Saturday to clinch the three-match series by 2-0. Chasing 148 to win, Pakistan made a sluggish start and were reeling at 44-4 at…
A map showing the landscape of Marloth Park. 1 minute Some residents of Marloth Park near Komatipoort, Mpumalanga, are up in arms over the planned culling of wildlife by the Nkomazi Local Municipality. The municipality says there is an overpopulation of wildlife and some are dying due to inadequate grazing. Municipal spokesperson Cyril Ripinga says…
Planting of trees at the Castle of Good Hope 4 minutes The Department of Public Works has described the successful eviction of illegal occupants from the Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town as part of its commitment to reclaim government buildings from illegal occupiers. Minister Dean Macpherson was speaking at a tree-planting event on…
File image: Silver handcuffs. 1 minute Limpopo Police have arrested 11 suspects in Praktiseer, outside Burgersfort for alleged extortion at a local mine. Police spokesperson, Colonel Malesela Ledwaba says that the local business forum allegedly threatened to close and disrupt mining activities if the mine doesn’t give them tenders and meet their other demands. Colonel…
An illicit mining van of the South African Police Service is pictured in Stilfontein in the North West on 13 November 2024. 2 minutes Mining analyst David van Wyk says government needs to conduct audits of abandoned mines and ensure that the owners are prosecuted. He has warned that illegal mining will continue as long…
Mike Tyson (black gloves) fights Jake Paul (silver gloves) at AT&T Stadium. 1 minute Video streaming platform Netflix was back up on Saturday after an outage that lasted roughly six hours in the United States, according to the outage tracking website Downdetector.com. Downdetector, which collates status reports from a number of sources, showed that there were…
Electricity pylons. 1 minute Energy Council of South Africa (ECSA) says the country needs to invest R2 trillion in the electricity sector over the next decade. ECSA was briefing Parliament’s Electricity and Energy committee. ECSA and the Independent Power Producers Office were among the stakeholders that updated the Committee on the progress made on the…
3 minutes The South African Department of Forestry, Fisheries, and the Environment has expressed deep concern over a potential avian influenza outbreak affecting endangered seabirds nesting off the coast. As the management authority for the Prince Edward Islands, the department has developed a protocol for managing avian influenza in seabirds, in collaboration with Western Cape…
