MEC Lebogang Maile speaking at a government engagement. 1 minute Finance and Economic Development MEC Lebogang Maile has tabled a half a trillion rand budget over three years for the Gauteng provincial government. He announced this during his 2025 Budget Speech in the Gauteng Legislature in Johannesburg today. Gauteng Education Department received the biggest allocation…
PAC President Mzwanele Nyhontsho. 2 minutes Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) president, Mzwanele Nyhontso, has rebutted suggestions that left-wing political parties are dying. This follows an electoral decline of the PAC and Azanian People’s Organisation (Azapo) in recent polls. Azapo was swept out of Parliament following the 2014 elections and has not returned since….
Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare minister July Moyo GOVERNMENT says it will keep civil servants’ salaries at 12% of the gross domestic product (GDP), with its growth expected to be the benchmark against which their salaries can be improved, NewsDay can report. The government this week announced that civil servants had started getting their…
Scene of a light motor vehicle collision on Table Mountain Road in Pietermaritzburg. A woman has been killed and three others, including a toddler, injured in a single light motor vehicle collision on Table Mountain Road in Pietermaritzburg. According to KwaZulu Private Ambulance Service, the driver lost control and veered off the roadway. The three-year-old…
IN an age where childhood should be synonymous with innocence and joy, a disturbing pattern of abuse has emerged, where young children are subjected to barbaric behaviour by the very people meant to care for them parents and caregivers. NewsDay Weekender has uncovered a string of disturbing cases in which children as young as infants…
Five accused in the former Bafana Bafana captain Senzo Meyiwa murder trial appear in the High Court in Pretoria. The Defense counsel in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial has argued that the testimony by key state witness Constable Sizwe Zungu, along with his written affidavit, contradict each other. Advocate Zithulele Nxumalo addressed the high court…
2 minutes National Police Commissioner, Fannie Masemola says South Africa is facing a serious challenge when it comes to transnational organised crime. He says he hopes the development of a strategic plan to curb such crimes will be successful. Some of the crimes include drug trafficking, illicit cigarette trade and theft of high-performance vehicles that…
Water running out of taps. Water and Sanitation Deputy Minister David Mahlobo has assured the public that the levels of water contamination by antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) in South Africa’s water sources will not affect the standard of drinking water. Mahlobo’s comments follow research that was conducted jointly by the North West University’s Unit for Environmental…
Murder accused pig farmer Zacharia Olivier appears in the High Court in Polokwane on 25 February 2026. A ballistic expert in the double murder trial of a Limpopo pig farmer accused of killing two women and disposing of their bodies in a pig enclosure, has told the High Court in Polokwane that her investigations and…
South African Ambassador to Côte d’Ivoire, Zolani Mtshotshisa 1 minute Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Ronald Lamola mourns the untimely passing of South Africa’s Ambassador to Côte d’Ivoire, Zolani Mtshotshisa. A devoted diplomat, Mtshotshisa strengthened ties between the two nations and played a key role in re-launching SAA’s Johannesburg-Abidjan route in November 2023. “Amb…
