Hindu prayer 2 minutes President of the religious body, the South African Hindu Maha Sabha, Ashwin Trikamjee says the organisation will not allow religious intolerance in schools to be overlooked. This after allegations of discrimination surfaced at Drakensberg Secondary, at Escourt in KwaZulu-Natal, after two Hindu pupils were asked to remove their red Luxmi prayer…
Lily Mine. 3 minutes A prayer was held ahead of the Lily Mine commemoration in remembrance of Pretty Nkambule, Yvonne Mnisi and Solomon Nyirenda. The three were trapped underground when the mine collapsed nine years ago. To this day their remains have not been retrieved. “When this time comes, it becomes difficult on the family’s…
KZN Premier Thami Ntuli leading a Human Resource Development Council Strategic session, June 2025. The National Freedom Party (NFP) says it has lost confidence in KwaZulu-Natal Premier Thami Ntuli. The party is citing financial mismanagement and lack of transparency in the Government of Provincial Unity. The party says the current administration has failed to deliver…
ANC councillors gathering for roll call in Nasrec on 15 September, 2025. African National Congress (ANC) President Cyril Ramaphosa says the party’s councillors across the country are their only hope to return the party to its former glory. He was speaking while introducing the party’s Service Delivery Action Plan to over 4 500 councillors at…
3 minutes Transport Minister Barbara Creecy says the country’s rail and port infrastructure faces substantial challenges such as theft and vandalism and operational inefficiencies. She says these are exacerbated by the limited state resources to fund infrastructure development and address backlogs. Creecy says after the department and Transnet received unsolicited proposals from the private sector…
[File image] Police graphic with crime scene tape and ammunition. Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi has strongly condemned the attack on five traffic wardens in Ekurhuleni. The wardens came under fire at the Daveyton Railway Station on Sunday when they attempted to search twelve people during a routine patrol. The two female and three male wardens…
JMPD conduct inspections on spaza shops in the Johannesburg CBD on December 8, 2024. 1 minute Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) Minister Velenkosini Hlabisa says that the deadline for the registration of spaza shops, as President Cyril Ramaphosa has directed, will expire next week Tuesday and not tomorrow. This comes as small businesses express…
FILE | A person being arrested 1 minute Hawks in the Northern Cape successfully arrested three suspects in connection with fraud, corruption and money laundering. Schalk Pienaar, his wife Leolene Pienaar and Patricia Booysen face 39 counts of corruption, 48 counts of fraud and 78 counts of money laundering. They were arrested at different locations…
Semiconductor chips are seen on a circuit board of a computer in this illustration picture taken February 25, 2022. President Donald Trump said the United States will impose a tariff of about 100% on imports of semiconductors but offered up a big exemption – it will not apply to companies that are manufacturing in the…
File image: Nandoni Dam in Thohoyandou. 2 minutes Residents of Tswinga and Tshitomboni outside Thohoyandou in Limpopo say they are shocked after discovering thousands of dead fish floating in the Nandoni dam. Some residents sell fish for a living. Provincial authorities say they have collected samples for analysis. Community leader, Philip Munyai says they are…
