1 minute Water and Sanitation Minister Pemmy Majodina has announced that Johannesburg Water will be throttling water in the City of Johannesburg from Thursday 14th of November until the water system has fully recovered. This comes as the department attempts to address the water supply challenges faced by the City and Gauteng province. Johannesburg has…
[FILE IMAGE]: A person running in the street. 2 minutes A Limpopo athlete, who is running a distance of 448 km from Pretoria to Thohoyandou to highlight the challenges of Gender-based Violence and drug abuse, says he is anticipating that he would qualify for the Olympic Games in Italy in 2026. Twenty-six-year-old Pfano Ungedzani began…
A dumping site. Gauteng MEC for Environment, Ewan Botha, says he expects Premier Panyaza Lesufi to highlight plans to tackle illegal dumping in the province, which contributes significantly to pollution. Botha was speaking on the red carpet ahead of Monday’s State of the Province Address at Nasrec Expo Centre in Johannesburg. Lesufi will use the…
City of Joburg Council Chambers The Johannesburg council has postponed the motion of no confidence against Executive Mayor Dada Morero in the City’s Council to determine if councillors can vote on the motion through a secret ballot. The motion was brought by minority party Al Jama-ah, with the support of other minority parties, urging Morero…
A gavel in the courtroom. The trial of a 22-year-old man accused of kidnapping and killing Johannesburg school teacher Kirsten Kluyts is expected to start on Tuesday in the High Court sitting in the Palm Ridge Magistrate’s Court in Ekurhuleni. Bafana Mahungela was arrested after Kluyts’ body was found in Sandton in October 2023. He…
File: Barrier tape and gun cartridges. There is high police visibility in Atlantis on the Cape West Coast, following the murder of a 14-year-old teenager at Atlantis High School on Wednesday. It is alleged that the teen was shot and killed, when an unidentified man approached the driver of a mini-bus taxi who was waiting…
Dictionary definition of legislation. The National Assembly has passed the Special Appropriation Bill. The bill allocates additional money to the Department of Health. Additional funding was requested by the Department after the United States withdrew its PEPFAR funding to South Africa and other countries last year. Democratic Alliance MP Janho Engelbrecht says political differences should be put…
President Cyril Ramaphosa. President Cyril Ramaphosa says all those who are proven to have done wrong in the concerns raised by KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner General Nhlanhla Mkwanazi will be dealt thoroughly in terms of the country’s laws. He was speaking to the media at the end of the BRICS Summit which ended in Rio Jenairo…
Tembisa Hospital in Ekurhuleni R2 billion has been lost to tender irregularities and fraud at Tembisa Hospital and this could escalate as investigations continue, according to Special Investigating Unit (SIU) Head Andy Mothibi. He was addressing the media at Tembisa Hospital, east of Johannesburg, on the interim report on its investigation into allegations of corruption…
Handcuffs depicting an arrest. Two Randfontein farmers in the West Rand have been arrested for alleged electricity theft and illegal connections. Eskom’s spokesperson in Gauteng, Amanda Qithi, says the arrests follow operations conducted to curb electricity theft and protect the integrity of the power network in the area. Qithi reveals that a third farm was…
