AA commends decline in Easter Road crashes and fatalities

Easter Road Safety Campaign 2025. 1 minute The Automobile Association of South Africa (AA) has welcomed the notable drop in road crashes and fatalities during the Easter 2025 period. Easter road deaths have fallen to their lowest in three years. The association has attributed this success to proactive planning, coordinated enforcement, and collaboration between the…

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SA soccer icon Lucas “Masterpieces” Moripe passes away

Candlelight 1 minute Lucas “Masterpieces” Moripe, a South African football icon, has passed away at his home in Atteridgeville in Pretoria. He’d been ill for some time. A dazzling midfielder, Moripe started his professional career with Pretoria Callies in 1971. In 1973, he was named the National Professional Soccer League’s Player of the Year and…

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Mashatile to answer oral questions in Parliament today

Deputy President Paul Mashatile responds to oral questions in the National Assembly. Deputy President Paul Mashatile will be in Parliament this afternoon to answer oral questions. Members of Parliament are expected to ask him questions related to problems in delivering basic services despite interventions. The MPs are also likely to want to know if Mashatile…

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Ford CEO decries cost and chaos of Trump tariffs

Ford cars are on sale at a dealership of Genser company in Moscow, Russia, February 14, 2017. 2 minutes Ford Motor CEO Jim Farley says US President Donald Trump’s proposed and implemented tariffs have added “a lot of costs and a lot of chaos,” although Farley says he believes the president aims to strengthen the…

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ANC won’t prevent SACP from contesting elections: Mashatile

ANC Deputy President Paul Mashatile at the South African Communist Party (SACP) Special Congress 2 minutes African National Congress (ANC) deputy president Paul Mashatile says they will not stand in the way of the South African Communist Party (SACP)’s wish to contest elections independently. Speaking at the SACP’s 5th Special National Congress in Boksburg, east…

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Former Eskom senior France Hlakdui’s fraud case postponed

1 minute The case against former Eskom senior manager, France Hlakudi, has been postponed to January 2025 for further trial. He appeared before the Pretoria Regional Court yesterday on tax fraud charges amounting to approximately R30 million. In the period between 2015 and 2018, it’s alleged that contractors and subcontractors to Eskom paid money to…

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