Yard of a home after floods Eastern Cape CoGTA MEC Zolile Williams has assured the Mthatha flood victims that government will relocate the homeless families to newly identified land and will also renovate the partially demolished homes. The bed and breakfast accommodation for the homeless has also been extended by 15 more days. Williams visited…
File | Rev. Jesse Jackson and President Cyril Ramaphosa President Cyril Ramaphosa departs South Africa on Thursday night to attend the “homegoing celebration of life” for the late Reverend Jesse Jackson in Chicago on Saturday. Ramaphosa is expected to speak at the event at the request of the Jackson family. Confirmed: President Cyril Ramaphosa will…
Members of a CPF engage with police 1 minute Community Policing Forums (CPFs) from some of Durban’s most dangerous areas are seeking urgent help in their fight against crime. Representatives of some of the CPFs and KwaZulu-Natal government officials met yesterday. They discussed challenges that CPFs are facing and ways of strengthening their working relationship…
Graphic showing the fuel price going up 1 minute Motorists are heading for a hefty fuel price increase in February. Preliminary data shows that the price of petrol will go up by between 84 and 90 cents per litre, depending on the grid. Researcher and political analyst Dr Dale McKinley says the reason the world…
ANC NEC Media Briefing at Birchwood in Boksburg. 2 minutes The African National Congress (ANC) says it will not conform to the Democratic Alliance’s (DA) demands just to garner the party’s support for the proposed budget which the National Assembly will vote on today. The ANC says the DA is willing to support the 0.5…
[File photo] England’s Ben Stokes England test captain Ben Stokes has resumed training and fast bowler Mark Wood is in line to return to action next week in a major boost to England’s preparations for the Ashes series in Australia later this year. Stokes missed the fifth and final test against India at the Oval, having…
Police are doing a walk-about in the Johannesburg CBD and over 900 arrests, linked to illegal activity, have been made. The South African Police Service have arrested over 900 suspects during their Gauteng-led Operation Shanela, this week. This is in efforts to combat criminal activities as the festive season is approaching. Gauteng Police Commissioner Lieutenant-General,…
File: Professor Barney Pityana Former Black Consciousness Movement leader, Professor Barney Pityana, has told delegates the Azanian People’s Organisation’s (AZAPO) 27th National Congress, in Bloemfontein, that they have the duty to transform the country. The organisation has announced its intention to contest the local government elections next year. Pityana says more should be done to…
The Executive Mayor of Nelson Mandela bay Municipality ,Cllr Babalwa Lobishe The Department of Cooperative Governance (CoGTA) has appointed a 10-person multidisciplinary task team to be deployed in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro, Eastern Cape, to strengthen governance, fix failing systems, and help restore basic service delivery. The intervention comes as the National Treasury has…
A pit head is seen at the Tumela platinum mine, an Anglo-American open pit mine located in Thabazimbi, Limpopo Province, South Africa June 9, 2016. 1 minute Anglo American Platinum said it had halted operations at its Tumela mine in South Africa on Thursday after excessive rains caused flooding, though the company maintained its production…
