Defending champions of the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations, Banyana Banyana, have resumed their preparations to successfully defend their continental title following the impasse over monies owed to them by the South African Football Association. Coach Desiree Ellis and her players returned to the pitch on Saturday afternoon and played a training match against Benin…
Car with a broken windshield after a crash. 1 minute Five people have been killed in a crash on the N1 at Ysterberg outside Mokopane in Limpopo. The driver lost control of the vehicle they were travelling in and it overturned this morning. The Provincial Transport Department Spokesperson, Tshifhiwa Dali, says the deceased are members of one family. “According to reports from the…
The trial against four people accused of the kidnapping and killing of six-year-old Bontle Mashiyane is expected to finally get underway next Monday. The trial was recently postponed on several occasions after the prosecutor called in sick. The suspects were arrested in 2022 after the young girl’s mutilated body was discovered in bushes following her…
Former Mauritanian Finance Minister Sidi Ould Tah elected president of the African Development Bank (AfDB) 2 minutes Sidi Ould Tah has been elected President of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire on Thursday. The president-elect, who was backed by Mauritania, defeated four candidates, including South Africa’s Bajabulile Swazi Tshabalala and Zambia’s…
Deputy President Paul Mashatile addresses the World AIDS Day commemoration at the Ga-Masemola stadium in the Sekhukhune district, Limpopo on December 1, 2025. Deputy President Paul Mashatile says this year’s World AIDS Day commemoration is aimed at enhancing strategies needed to improve the prevention and treatment of HIV and AIDS. He was delivering the World…
File image: A police vehicle. 1 minute Eastern Cape Community Safety MEC Xolile Nqatha says police have already identified persons of interest in connection with the brutal murders of four members of the Mente family in Willowvale, East London. The four, aged between 34 and 59, were gunned down yesterday. The MEC, officials from local…
ANC Secretary-General, Fikile Mbalula, speaking during an event. African National Congress (ANC) Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula says that he won’t respond to North-West businessman and alleged Senzo Mchunu associate, Brown Mogotsi after Mogotsi reached out to him. Mbalula was speaking at a media briefing at the Birchwood Hotel in Ekurhuleni, where the ANC is holding its…
1 minute Postbank has warned South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) social grant beneficiaries using its black cards and Sassa gold cards against the rise in fraud scams targeting their cards and pin information. The recent scam involves fraudsters impersonating Postbank officials and targeting social beneficiaries in their homes. Postbank says their officials will never…
Former National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) Bulelani Ngcuka. Lawyers for former National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) Bulelani Ngcuka have failed to avoid cross-examination of their client at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Cases Inquiry taking place in Newton, Johannesburg. They argued that a directive given by Chairperson Justice Sisi Khampepe, allowing counsel…
ANC NWC meeting with Gauteng PEC at Birchwood Hotel and Conference Centre on December 9, 2024. 2 minutes The African National Congress (ANC) says it will convene a meeting of its National Executive Committee in early January to consider the future of the party’s Provincial Executive Committees (PECs) in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng. The NEC meeting that…
