Family, friends and fellow musicians gathered to pay their last respects to world renowned trumpeter and flugelhornist, Fezile Feya Faku in Gqeberha in the Eastern Cape. Faku passed away at the age of 63 while touring in Switzerland. Speaking on behalf of the family, Gift Ngqondi expressed mixed emotions as they are happy with the…
File Image: Members of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) in KwaZulu-Natal says it’s time government stopped rescuing private capital without any accountability. This, after business rescue practitioners filed for the provisional liquidation of sugar giant, Tongaat Hulett which has put thousands of jobs at…
3 minutes The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) maintains their stance on President Cyril Ramaphosa, stating he continues to be a president “in the interest of capital.” According to the EFF’s National Spokesperson, Sinawo Tambo, speaking to the SABC outside Cape Town City Hall, Ramaphosa has done nothing to alter the party’s view of him. Tambo’s…
Xolani Khumalo is the ActionSA mayoral candidate for Ekurhuleni. ActionSA National Chairperson, Michael Beaumont, says the party is fully behind its Ekurhuleni mayoral candidate, Xolani Khumalo, as he is set to hand himself over to the police at Katlehong, east of Johannesburg on Monday morning. This follows allegations of being involved in an assault case….
A banner of the Ditsobotla Local Municipality is seen during a vaccination drive in Lichtenburg on 12 October 2021. 2 minutes The North West High Court in Mahikeng has confirmed Mazwi Moruri as the new mayor of the embattled Ditsobotla Local Municipality. Moruri was elected during a council sitting last week, which saw the then-mayor Thabo…
Ekurhuleni 1 minute The City of Ekurhuleni’s Disaster and Emergency Management Services firefighters on Gauteng’s East Rand have responded to a welding incident at a fuel truck company in Hillcrest, which caused two articulated trucks and one rigid truck to catch fire. According to reports one articulated truck was fully loaded with 40 000 litres…
A man walks past election posters. 2 minutes Advocacy group, My Vote Counts, is challenging the Political Funding Act in the Western Cape High Court today. The organisation claims the Act falls short of its constitutional goals of transparency, openness and accountability. My Vote Counts is objecting to provisions that allow donations below R100 000…
Delegates at the three-day Traditional Leadership Imbizo in Boksburg. Traditional leaders have called on politicians to stop interfering in the affairs of the royal families for their own selfish interest. This came out at the end of the three-day traditional leaders’ imbizo in Boksburg east of Johannesburg today. Earlier, politicians from the ANC, EFF, MK…
2 minutes Areas in the Northern Cape are battling a heatwave. While the capital, Kimberley reached a high of 37 degrees on Sunday, Upington was just shy of forty at 39 degrees. Heatwave conditions are expected to continue for at least another week. Two years ago, five farm workers in the Kakamas area died from…
ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses party members at the 113th anniversary in Khayelitsha. 2 minutes African National Congress (ANC) President Cyril Ramaphosa has raised concerns over what he has termed weak party branches in the Western Cape. The party has not been in power in the province since 2009 after losing to the Democratic Alliance…
