The Gauteng Department of Roads and Transport joined Santaco and the Transport Education Training Authority for a road safety awareness campaign at Bosman Taxi Rank in Tshwane on 12 December 2024. 2 minutes The South African National Taxi Council (Santaco) in the Western Cape will launch its road safety campaign in Philippi today ahead of…
File Image | Police tape The bodies of two boys, between the ages of 10 and 11, have been retrieved from a water pond in Duduza, Ekurhuleni along Tonkmeter Road on Friday morning. This follows the pair being reported missing last night. The City of Ekurhuleni’s Disaster Emergency Management Services responded to a suspected drowning…
Source: 123RF. As it stands, the list of zero-rated Vat items stands at 19, and includes such staples as brown bread, maize meal, milk, rice, vegetables, and eggs. The recommendation is to expand the list to 44 zero-rated Vat items. Advocacy group, Pietermaritzburg Economic Justice and Dignity Group (PMBEJD) has advocated for this stance, based…
Bangladesh’s Tamim Iqbal. 2 minutes Former Bangladesh one-day captain Tamim Iqbal has announced his retirement from international cricket, saying he did not wish to be a distraction for the team ahead of the Champions Trophy. Tamim made his international debut in a 2007 One-Day International (ODI) against Zimbabwe in Harare. He played 243 ODIs, 70…
Two have died in a mass shooting in Cape Town Police say two people, aged 23 and 25, were shot and killed early Sunday morning inside a dwelling in Nyanga on the Cape Flats. In the past week, 13 other people have been killed in mass shootings in Cape Town, seven of them in Gugulethu….
Deputy Minister Sihle Zikalala seen attending a government event. 1 minute The Deputy Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure, Sihle Zikalala, says hijacked buildings in the Johannesburg CBD should be expropriated without compensation. This after President Cyril Ramaphosa called on the provincial government to use the Expropriation Act as a tool to reclaim abandoned and…
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has welcomed the two life sentences handed down to Raymond Smith, 37, convicted of killing a Pretoria couple. The High Court in Pretoria found Smith guilty of murdering a couple and stabbing their son during a robbery. Smith had targeted them after seeing the listing of the family’s R2.7 million…
25-year-old Brazilian national arrested at OR Tambo International Airport for drug trafficking 1 minute The police in Gauteng police have arrested yet another suspected drug mule at the O.R. Tambo International Airport. A 25-year-old Brazilian national was found in possession of drugs worth an estimated R1.8 million. In September, a 30-year-old Namibian national was arrested…
Students attending school. 1 minute Teacher union, Suid-Afrikaanse Onderwysers Unie (SAOU) in the Northern Cape, says it’s not optimistic about the budget speech that will be tabled. MEC for Finance, Economic Development, and Tourism, Venus Blennies-Magage will table the provincial on Tuesday. In 2024, education received R25 billion. The union’s Chairperson Brand Henk believes the…
[File Image] Accused 1, 2 and 3, Muzi Sibiya, Bongani Ntanzi, and Prince Mncube seating in the dock at the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial in Pretoria. The Senzo Meyiwa murder trial is expected to resume in the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria. Five men are on trial for the murder of the then Bafana…
