A container ship docked at a port 2 minutes President Cyril Ramaphosa has urged the private sector to engage with the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). The trade agreement aims to accelerate trade across the continent and strengthen its position in the global market. Speaking at the Africa CEO Forum in Abidjan, Ivory Coast,…
The accused Bellarmine Mugabe and Tobias Matonhodze appear at the Alexandra Magistrate’s Court. Specialist crime investigator Mike Bolhuis has rejected social media claims that the criminal case against Robert Mugabe’s son Berllamine Mugabe and his co-accused Tobias Matonhodze might be thrown out of the court for lack of evidence. This is due to a missing…
Source: Land Bank. Over the next two years, Land Bank Insurance Company (LBIC) will pilot index insurance in South Africa targeting smallholder producers to provide affordable drought-risk insurance for both crop and livestock farmers. Index insurance products have proven to be a cost-efficient and administratively effective way to insure smallholder and semi-commercial farmers. Under these…
Tablets, blood samples and a file written Food Poisoning. Two children have died in a suspected food poisoning incident. The incident happened at Msintsi Location near Ntabozuko outside KuGompo (formerly East London) in the Eastern Cape. They were declared deceased upon arrival at Cecilia Makhiwane Hospital in Mdantsane. The seven children aged between four and…
Home Affairs building. 1 minute The Democratic Alliance has welcomed the Constitutional Court’s decision to scrap Section 6(1) of the South African Citizenship Act of 1995, calling it a major victory. The section stipulates that South Africans automatically lose their citizenship if they voluntarily acquire another nationality, unless they apply for and receive permission to…
Minister Enoch Godongwana will deliver the budget speech on 12 March 2025. 1 minute The African National Congress Veterans League has called for a constructive, informed and sober debate as the government faces the budget crisis. Last month, the national budget address was postponed when political parties could not reach a consensus on the 2%…
Members of the SANDF seen during a parade. 1 minute Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Defence wants to engage the Presidency in extending the deployment of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This was after the President had sent a letter to the Committee on Christmas Eve of…
Suspended Ekurhuleni Human Resources Head Linda Gxasheka will be back to testify before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry in Pretoria on Friday morning. The Commission of Inquiry is probing criminality, political interference and corruption in the Criminal Justice System. Livestream| Madlanga Commission of Inquiry, 27 February 2026:
A calculator and pen depicted in the picture. 3 minutes The Democratic Alliance (DA) says Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana should follow what it calls a six-point plan it has crafted, a guide in preventing tax increase when tabling the budget. The party made these sentiments as part of outlining its expectations on the reported reduction…
Witness D’s car National Police Commissioner General Fannie Masemola says they are making progress on the assassination of Marius Van Der Merwe or Witness D as he was known in the Madlanga Commission. He says three persons of interest have been identified and one has already been questioned as part of the ongoing investigation. Van…
