The Goodwood Magistrates Court in Cape Town. Community activists from Elsie’s River on the Cape Flats say the brutal killing of a 14-year-old boy, who was gunned down in the area last week, has left the area distraught. The teenager was walking home from school when he was killed in a suspected gang-related incident. An…
Roads completely flooded. 1 minute The Groblersbrug border post linking South Africa and Botswana in Lephalale, Limpopo, has been closed due to flooding. Services have also been disrupted in and around Lephalale. Lephalale Mayor Aaron Mokgehle says the border post has suspended its services while the local Witpoort Hospital has had to evacuate patients to…
uMkhonto weSizwe’s Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla at a party event on December 8, 2024. 2 minutes uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party member Bonginkosi Khanyile says Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, the daughter of party leader and former president Jacob Zuma, was not part of the July 2021 unrest. Khanyile is among the many prominent MK Party members including Zuma, who are…
Hlompho Mofokeng and Khethelo Zulu 1 minute Two of the four learners who died in a car accident on their way to school on Monday are being laid to rest in Daveyton on Sunday. The Gauteng Education Transport Services (GETS) at the funeral, pledged to implement measures to prevent scholar transport crashes. The brothers, Hlompho…
Trucks on the road. Deputy Minister of Transport Mkhuleko Hlengwa has called on the country’s youth to seize opportunities in the logistics and transport sector. Hlengwa was speaking at the inaugural Cross-Border Road Transport Agency Micro Small and Medium (MSME) Conference in Gqeberha in the Eastern Cape. The meeting aims to empower cross-border freight operators…
National Park electricity box The Kruger Lowveld Chamber of Business and Tourism in Mpumalanga has accused the Mpumalanga Tourism and Parks Agency of failing to maintain key tourist attractions. Chamber spokesperson Oupa Pilane says most of the attractions on the ‘panorama route’ do not have proper ablution facilities. Pilane also raised concerns that some of…
Fire on the slopes of the Swartberg Mountains 1 minute Fire authorities in Oudtshoorn in the Little Karoo say teams on the ground are making progress in trying to contain a wildfire high up in the Swartberg Mountains. The fire has been burning for several days now. At this stage, no infrastructure is in danger….
The Senzo Meyiwa murder trial continues at the Pretoria High Court. Live proceedings below:
File: E-hailing drivers protest, raising safety concerns amongst other issues. Gauteng e-hailing drivers from platforms such as Uber, Bolt, and inDrive are set to protest outside the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on Monday morning. This is ahead of three suspects due to appear in court in connection with the brutal murder of an e-hailing driver in…
Gauteng Finance MEC Lebogang Maile delivers the province’s Budget Speech. 3 minutes The Democratic Alliance (DA) in Gauteng has criticised the budget allocation for health saying it made no provision to pay off more than R4 billion owed to suppliers and fill staff vacancies. The Gauteng Health budget increased by 3,7% from R64,7 billion to…
