File image| Ditsobotla Municipality head office building. The national Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) Department says it’s determined to ensure the resumption of the delivery of basic services in the Lichtenburg-based Ditsobotla Local Municipality in the North West. Years of instability have led to the collapse of the delivery of services and financial management….
[FILE IMAGE]: Runners during the Nelson Mandela Bay half marathon. The 11th Nelson Mandela Bay half-marathon will take place on Saturday in Gqeberha where over 2,000 runners are expected to compete. The race has held the National Championship status for nine consecutive years and is open to the public as 90% of the participants are…
EFF Leader Julius Malema is seen with the party’s leadership and party supporters in the Eastern Cape on 23 January 2026. Political analyst, Professor Ntsikelelo Breakfast, says the firearm related case of Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader, Julius Malema, may have a detrimental effect on the party’s support. On Friday, Malema appeared in the East…
This year’s event will take place in partnership with Akello Library, expanding on the insights gained from the inaugural conference in 2023. The Business of Books (BOB) Conference is set to return for its second edition on October 31, 2024, with a compelling theme: “Beyond the Margins: Homegrown Digital Publishing Solutions for African Authors.” This…
[FILE IMAGE]: A customer in a spaza shop. 2 minutes Spaza shop owners in Mpumalanga are rushing to municipal offices to register business before Friday’s closing date. This after President Cyril Ramaphosa mandated that all spaza shops and food businesses should be registered with their municipalities. This was one of the government strategies to ensure…
President Cyril Ramaphosa. 1 minute President Cyril Ramaphosa has dismissed allegations that white Afrikaners are experiencing a genocide in South Africa. Speaking on the sidelines of the ANC Northern Cape’s PEC induction programme, Ramaphosa says no one has been persecuted in South Africa. President Ramaphosa did not mince his words, pushing back against disinformation that…
Residents look on as the fire gutters the shacks. 2 minutes Scores of residents from the Booysens informal settlement Camp in Johannesburg, have been left homeless, after a fire ravaged dozens of shacks this afternoon. At this stage it’s still unclear what the cause of the fire was. One of the residents, Difference Malatji, says…
President Cyril Ramaphosa The Presidency has confirmed that the first National Convention of the National Dialogue process will proceed on 15 August 2025, despite divisions within the interim Preparatory Task Team (PTT) over its readiness. In a statement released on Saturday, the Presidency announced that the National Convention organising team has been restructured and reinforced…
Leader of the MK Party Jacob Zuma addressing supporters. 1 minute Thousands of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party supporters are expected to attend its 1st anniversary celebrations at Durban’s Moses Mabhida Stadium this weekend. Led by former President Jacob Zuma, it was barely 5 months old when it shook up the country’s political landscape in May’s…
President Cyril Ramaphosa at the YES programme President Cyril Ramaphosa has expressed his administration’s gratitude to private companies that have taken national government’s initiative with both hands to absorb unemployed youth as interns, to provide workplace experience. He was delivering a keynote address at the Youth Employment Service’s (YES) 200 000 jobs milestone at Illovo…
