Phalala River in Limpopo 3 minutes Heavy rains in parts of Limpopo have brought pain to some families. Seven people have drowned in overflowing rivers in the past two months. Two 10-year-old boys drowned in the Phalala River at Ga-Seleka outside Lephalale in Limpopo last week. The body of one of them is still missing. Police…
Image source: Peter Titmuss – 123RF.com The programme was launched at the Ngxakaxha village under the Mbhashe Local Municipality, an area that once faced high poverty levels. Wednesday’s launch coincided with World Food Day, held under the theme: “Right to Food for a Better Life and a Better Future”, which underscores the fundamental human right…
Real Madrid’s Kylian Mbappe in action with Juventus’ Alberto Costa. Real Madrid hit their stride at the Club World Cup on Tuesday, edging Juventus 1-0 to reach the quarter-finals thanks to a second-half strike from academy graduate Gonzalo Garcia as Kylian Mbappe made his tournament debut. Garcia, deputising for Mbappe after the France forward missed…
Source: Reuters. In the first budget review since the African National Congress (ANC) lost its ruling majority and formed a coalition government, the National Treasury said it saw the consolidated deficit at 5.0% of national output in the fiscal year that ends in March 2025, wider than the 4.5% deficit forecast in February. For the…
Chiduwa pressed Mupururi for clarity on Zimbabwe’s GDP, emphasising its importance in understanding revenue targets. LAWMAKERS were left disappointed with officials from the Finance ministry after they failed to provide statistics about the country’s gross domestic product (GDP). GDP is a monetary measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced…
Members of a CPF engage with police 2 minutes Secretary of the KwaZulu-Natal Community Policing Forum (CPF) Siyanda Biyela says people are becoming more reluctant to join crime-fighting structures in their areas for fear of being targeted by criminals. This follows the mass shooting of eight people at the Zamani Transit Camp in Umlazi in…
Person behind bars Correctional Services Minister, Pieter Groenewald says he is in talks with other government departments, including Home Affairs, to come up with a system of sending convicted foreign nationals back to their home countries to serve their sentences there. Groenewald has lamented the high cost of having foreigners serve their sentences in South…
Mduduzi Mnisi accused of killing 14-year-old Likhona Fose appears before the Roodepoort Magistrate’s Court in Johannesburg on 09 July 2025. The Tshegofatso Pule Foundation has expressed outrage over the decision of the Roodepoort Magistrate’s Court in Johannesburg to grant bail to the man accused of the murder of 14-year-old Lukhona Fose. Thirty-nine-year-old Mduduzi Mnisi appeared in court yesterday and was granted bail of R5 000….
South African R100 notes. 1 minute The rand is trading at R18,48 to the US dollar; R23,28 to pound sterling, and R19,23 to the euro. The euro is trading at $1,04, and the dollar is trading at 150,5-5 Japanese yen. In China, a dollar is changing hands at 7-yuan-28 and in India at 87-rupees-41. Now…
A firefighter works at the scene of a deadly fire which occurred in the early hours of the morning in Johannesburg, South Africa, August 31, 2023. 3 minutes The Khapempe Commission has heard that there are tenants that pay rent to occupy dilapidated and hijacked buildings in the Johannesburg inner city, however, the money never…
