CPUT students during a protest outside Parliament in Cape Town. As President Cyril Ramaphosa is delivering his State of the Nation Address (SONA), about 100 metres down the street, scores of students from the Cape Town University of Technology (CPUT) are staging a protest. Some carrying their luggage, saying, continued evictions from various student residences…
Private investigator Paul O’Sullivan’s appears before Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee, February 2026. Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee that is looking into national security concerns will continue with hearings on Thursday, with two returning witnesses. The committee is probing allegations of criminal infiltration, corruption and political interference in the criminal justice system. On Thursday, private forensic investigator…
Former Paris St Germain player Kylian Mbappe 3 minutes France soccer captain Kylian Mbappe’s legal team have appealed to the French sports minister and UEFA for his former club Paris St Germain to pay him 55 million euros ($61.25 million) in unpaid wages and said several of the club’s accounts had been frozen on Thursday…
Unemployment graphic. Many young people in the North West province say they continue to grapple with high levels of unemployment. The province currently has the highest unemployment rate in the country, despite being well known for its strong presence in mining, agriculture, and tourism. In Promosa, outside Potchefstroom, a group of unemployed youth say they…
FILE | Chiefs vs Pirates 2 minutes The police have beefed up their security plans for tomorrow’s Nedbank Cup final soccer match at Durban’s Moses Mabhida Stadium. Chaos with the sales of tickets has brought about a situation where people who have booked online, have been notified that too many tickets have been sold and…
Witness D’s car. Police have launched a manhunt for suspects who shot and killed one of the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry’s key witnesses. ‘Witness D’, who police have identified as 41-year-old Marius van der Merwe, was killed in front of his family outside their house in Brakpan, in the east of Johannesburg, on Friday evening. He…
A worker grinding metal at a factory 2 minutes Government says a multi-disciplinary team of departments is engaging with ArcelorMittal management to seek a solution to the looming job losses. This after the steel producer announced plans to shut down its operations in Newcastle in KwaZulu-Natal and Vanderbijlpark in Gauteng. Following a meeting with the…
File image: Aerial view of Komati Power Station. 2 minutes Eskom General Manager for Just Transition, Dr Vikesh Rajpaul says the power utility has learnt a lot from the decommissioning of the Komati Power Station in Mpumalanga. Speaking to SABC News at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, Rajpaul says Eskom is in the process of re-purposing…
[File Image]: Global ratings agency Standard & Poor’s Global Ratings. The African National Congress (ANC) has welcomed the decision by Standard and Poor’s (S&P) Global Ratings to upgrade South Africa’s sovereign credit rating. The S&P decision follows the tabling of the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) earlier this week. ANC NEC member and deputy…
Traffic building up on the N1 following an accident. Five people have died on the N1 North freeway between the Buccleuch Interchange and Allandale Road in Midrand following a fatal vehicle crash involving a minibus taxi. The Johannesburg Metro Police Department (JMPD) spokesperson Xolani Fihla has cautioned motorists of major traffic disruptions due to some…
