People are encouraged to buy property well within their budget 2 minutes There is good news for first-time property buyers and property investors as National Treasury has adjusted property transfer duty brackets. According to the 2025 budget, transfer duty brackets change by 10% on property purchases of less than R1.210 million. This means that there…
[FILE IMAGE]: uMkhonto weSizwe Party member of Parliament, Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla. The Durban High Court has heard that there were more than 160 WhatsApp groups created with the intention to cause public disruption during the 2021 July unrest in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng. This is according to evidence led by the State’s first witness, the Hawks’ Major-General,…
Smoke bellows in the air during a wildfire at the Hectorskraal and Resiesbaan vicinity in Hessequa in the Garden Route. 1 minute Firefighters have completely contained a wildfire that was burning in the Hectorskraal and Resiesbaan vicinity in Hessequa in the Garden Route region of the Western Cape. Authorities say the northwestern flank was contained…
Woman charged with possession of child pornography and money laundering appears in court, Johannesburg, January 27, 2025. 1 minute The case of a 25-year-old woman charged with possession of child pornography and money laundering will resume at the Randburg Magistrate’s Court in Johannesburg this morning. The woman, a web designer, appeared in court yesterday to…
SAPS adds 1,900 new cops to the to tackle crime hotspots
Soccer ball on the field. The 2025 edition of the Carling Knockout Cup will commence this weekend with all Betway Premiership teams in action. Stellenbosch FC will host Kaizer Chiefs in the pick of the matches at the Cape Town Stadium on Sunday afternoon. Amakhosi were thrashed by Mamelodi Sundowns 4-nil in the quarterfinals last…
A gavel and a cone in a court room. 1 minute The High Court in Johannesburg has sentenced 34-year-old Nonhlelelwa Matsebula to 30 years in prison for the kidnapping and murder of a four-year-old girl in Protea, Soweto. The court heard how Matsebula lured the child while she was playing in a yard, intending to…
FILE | India v Pakistan India and Pakistan will clash in the Twenty20 World Cup in Colombo on Sunday, still feeling the aftershocks of a tumultuous fortnight in which Pakistan’s boycott threat – later reversed – nearly blew a hole in the tournament’s marquee fixture. With bilateral cricket a casualty of their fraught relations, emotions…
President Cyril Ramaphosa on the final day of the ordinary ANC NEC meeting at the Germiston Council Chambers. African National Congress (ANC) President Cyril Ramaphosa has dared his political detractors in the National Executive Committee (NEC) to give him a date by which he should resign. In a heated direct political overview report, Ramaphosa dared…
President Cyril Ramaphosa. Political analyst, Dale McKinley, says President Cyril Ramaphosa has demonstrated a lack of political will to deal with ministers accused of wrongdoing. This comes after KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner, Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, made damning allegations about organised crime syndicates infiltrating the country’s justice system and political interference in police investigations. The Democratic Alliance (DA) recently…
