[FILE IMAGE]: Construction on Durban roads. Africa’s financial institutions have committed to generate billions of US dollars needed to finance the continent’s infrastructure development. This pledge was made at the Luanda Summit on Financing Infrastructure Development in Africa. Different sectors on the continent met to discuss the possibility of financing big projects in Africa. The…
Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni 2 minutes Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni has assured Members of Parliament that newly established intelligence agencies will be free of political interference. Ntshavheni was answering oral questions in the National Council of Provinces. The Presidential High-Level Review Panel and State Capture Commission’s recommendations were to separate the…
A taxi rank in Springs. The Department of Transport in Gauteng says it will not be bullied as it continues to work on restoring law and order on the province’s public roads by maintaining that citizens have the right to choose whichever mode of public transport that they want to use. The department has impounded…
Springboks’ team Springbok coach Rassie Erasmus has stuck with the tried and tested for the Rugby Championship tour to New Zealand. Out of the 38 players who were part of the squad for the two matches against Australia, 36 players will travel to New Zealand for the two test matches against the All Blacks. With…
Deputy Minister of Police Cassel Mathale visiting a school in Mpumalanga. 2 minutes The South African Police Service (SAPS) has taken steps towards tackling criminal activities in the crime-ridden Barberton area in Mpumalanga. Deputy Minister of Police Cassel Mathale is leading a crime prevention campaign in the area that is battling with gangsterism and gun…
Lubabalo Oscar Mabuyane The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) says the judgment handed down by the Bisho High Court in the Eastern Cape on the investigation into the awarding of degrees at the University of Fort Hare does not prevent the SIU from continuing with its investigation. The SIU says this is because the judgment is…
Renowned poet Don Mattera. 2 minutes Today, 70 years ago, the apartheid regime forcefully removed nearly 65 000 Black people from their homes in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. A small group of people, together with the Don Mattera Legacy Foundation members, embarked on a march from Sophiatown to Meadowlands in Soweto. This is to commemorate the 70th…
Johannesburg Executive Mayor Dada Morero Johannesburg Executive Mayor Dada Morero says there are signs of improved service delivery under his leadership, despite rising political pressure against him. Morero is facing a motion of no confidence in the City Council brought by minority party Al Jama-ah, with the support of other minority parties. The parties have since written to ANC…
FILE | Residents trying to put out a shack fire A 22-year-old and a two-year-old child have died following a fire at Nigel in Ekurhuleni in Gauteng. An eight-year-old child managed to escape with minor burns and was taken for medical treatment. A total of eight people have died in fire-related incidents over the weekend…
[FILE IMAGE]: People on holiday at a South African Beach. 1 minute A 12-year-old girl has tragically drowned at Maitland’s Beach, Gqeberha in the Eastern Cape. National Sea Rescue Institute spokesperson, Craig Lambinon, says rescue teams brought the girl to shore at Maitland’s Beach, but despite resuscitation efforts, she was declared dead. “After all efforts…
