FILE | Heavy snow on the N2 in the Eastern Cape The Eastern Cape government says it has ramped up flood disaster relief efforts as the province braces for another cold front. This comes after the South African Weather Services issued a level 1 warning for disruptive snow accompanied by cold temperatures. Yellow level 1…
Andrew Mehlape appears in the Mankweng Magistrate’s Court, March 17, 2025. 1 minute The case against a man who allegedly killed his stepdaughter has been postponed to next Monday at the Mankweng Magistrate’s Court, outside Polokwane in Limpopo. Forty-eight-year-old Andrew Mehlape allegedly stabbed to death 14-year-old Rebotile Moloto on Friday morning while she was walking…
North West provincial legislature building The Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) and the Public Service Commission (PSC) have committed to investigating the appointments of Heads of Departments in the North West provincial government. This comes after the Provincial Legislature’s portfolio committee on Premier and Finance revealed a shocking imbalance in the appointments for departmental heads…
[FILE IMAGE]: University student activists express their views in a public Fees Must Fall dialogue. Students at UCT have welcomed the idea of the National Dialogue to help solve service delivery challenges. The first sitting of the National Dialogue Convention took place earlier today in Pretoria. The Presidency described the Convention as a call to…
2 minutes Lawyers for Human Rights is demanding that the government provide R7.8 million to fund the retrieval of illegal miners still trapped at Stilfontein’s Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in the North West. The matter awaits a Constitutional Court ruling to determine whether the responsibility lies with the state or the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine. On Thursday,…
Dr. Phophi Ramathuba elected as Limpopo Premier on June 14, 2024. 1 minute The Health Professional Council of South Africa (HPCSA) is expected to continue hearing the matter of Limpopo Premier, Dr. Phophi Ramathuba in Pretoria this morning. This is over the 2022 utterances Ramathuba made to a patient who came from Zimbabwe at Bela…
Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla registering at Parliament on June 25, 2024 ahead of her swearing in as an MP. 1 minute Former President Jacob Zuma’s daughter, Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, is expected to appear in the Durban Magistrate’s Court in KwaZulu-Natal today in connection with the July 2021 civil unrest. It is not clear whether she will be facing…
The opening session of the Urban20SouthAfrica. City of Tshwane Executive Mayor, Dr Nasiphi Moya, has bemoaned what she calls municipalities’ lack of capacity that’s necessary to satisfy the needs of their residents. She made the remarks during the official opening of the three-day Urban 20 Mayoral Summit in Sandton, north of Johannesburg. The summit brought…
Emergency services have cordoned off the scene. It is believed that it was set alight by protesters who are unhappy about recent evictions from flats in the area and are demanding to be allowed to move back without paying rent. City of Ekurhuleni Emergency Services Spokesperson, William Ntladi, says that firefighters have arrived on the…
President Cyril Ramaphosa. 2 minutes President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced a raft of measures, including closing implicated shops, to address the recent spate of children becoming sick from eating contaminated food. The President was speaking on a live address to the nation broadcast by the SABC. Ramaphosa says his cabinet has decided to get hazardous…
