[FILE IMAGE]: Scholar transport. 1 minute The Department of Mobility in the Western Cape is calling on scholar transport operators to come for a free vehicle safety inspection ahead of the opening of schools this week. The programme is set for Monday and Tuesday next week at the Gene Louw Traffic Training College in Brackenfell,…
The Standard Chartered logo is seen at the bank’s headquarters. 2 minutes Zambia’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has sanctioned Standard Chartered for mis-selling a Chinese property company’s bonds to one of the bank’s local wealth clients at the height of the Asian country’s real-estate crisis, according to a source. The source familiar with the…
Workers use heavy machinery to move trash and waste at a landfill. 1 minute Residents of Park Avenue in Bloemfontein are threatening to approach the courts to compel the Mangaung Metro Municipality in the Free State to resolve the problem of a landfill site that is too close to their residential areas. Residents say despite…
Stormers celebrate after getting a try in a game against Sale Sharks. 1 minute The Stormers scored a morale-boosting 40-points-to-nil win, which lifted their foot off their Champions Cup pool, when they thrashed the Sale Sharks with a bonus point in Cape Town this afternoon. After losses to Toulon and Harlequins, the Stormers needed a…
Mamelodi Sundowns FC players celebrate after scoring a goal. 1 minute Mamelodi Sundowns have come from behind to beat AS Maniema Union of the Democratic Republic of Congo 2-1 in Kinshasa earlier this afternoon. Sundowns are now on eight points after five matches, lying second in Group B. Namibian Peter Shalulile came off the bench…
A gravesite in Johannesburg. 2 minutes Johannesburg City Parks and Zoo (JCPZ), the entity responsible for managing parks, cemeteries, and the zoo, is urging families to visit the graves of their loved ones across Johannesburg. This appeal comes in the wake of recent heavy rains that led to flooding, grave subsidence, and damaged headstones in…
Anti rape protest 4 minutes The Department of Health says the Ga-Chuene clinic near Lebowakgomo in Limpopo, where two nurses were kidnapped and raped, will remain closed over the weekend. Nurses union, Health & Other Services Personnel Trade Union of South Africa (Hospersa) says the two nurses are traumatised following their ordeal while on duty…
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…
A prison cell. 1 minute Police are searching for an awaiting trial prisoner who escaped from custody on Friday after appearing at the Malamulele Magistrate’s Court in Limpopo. Twenty-four-year-old Thembinkosi Gift Mabunda from Hasani Mbalati village was with four other inmates, but he failed to get into the truck transporting them. Police Spokesperson Stephen Thakeng…
[File image]: Accident road sign. 1 minute Eight people have been killed in a crash on the N2 in the Eastern Cape. A total of 10 people died in three separate crashes last night, including two pedestrians. Provincial Department of Transport Spokesperson, Unathi Binqose says a head-on collision between a bakkie, transporting 12 people and…
