A mosquito on a person’s skin. Twelve malaria-related deaths and over 800 malaria cases have been recorded in Limpopo since April 2025. Health Department spokesperson Neil Shikwambana says two of the deaths were recorded after last month’s floods. Shikwambana says that the risk of malaria transmission has significantly increased due to the heavy rain. Malaria symptoms include fever, headache, nausea, diarrhoea and…
Water running from a tap. Bulk water supplier Rand Water has announced that its latest round of planned maintenance work in Gauteng will commence on Monday and is expected to continue until Thursday, July 18. Rand Water says the maintenance will be carried out in phases and will not involve a continuous 18-day shutdown. Residents…
A general view of flood damaged homes in KwaNdengezi, Durban, South Africa. 2 minutes Flood survivors mourning the loss of their loved ones following this week’s floods in KwaZulu-Natal, are appealing to government to relocate them to safer land from the Gwala Street Transit Camp in Lamontville in the south of Durban. Nine people died…
1 minute Police Minister Senzo Mchunu, together with the National Police Commissioner General Fannie Masemola, present the quarterly crime statistics, reflecting on crimes that occurred during the fourth quarter of the previous financial year. That’s the period from the 1st of January 2025 to the 31st of March 2025. LIVE|
A South African court room. Two suspects are expected to appear in the Zeerust Magistrate’s Court in North West on two counts of murder, five of attempted murder and one of defeating the ends of justice. This is after the suspects handed themselves over to the police after the bodies of two men were found…
The African National Congress (ANC) Free State Chairperson addresses the Special PEC meeting in Bloemfontein on August 20, 2025. The African National Congress (ANC) in Free State is set to announce the outcomes of Wednesday’s special Provincial Executive Council (PEC) meeting. The ANC indicated last month that there would be restructuring in at least five…
AfriForum’s Kallie Kriel 2 minutes AfriForum says that it has instructed its lawyers to take its legal fight against the ‘Kill the Boer’ chant overseas – in the hope that it can find international platforms through which it can continue its legal action. This follows the Constitution Court’s rejection of the lobby group’s leave to…
A broken windscreen seen after a car crash. Two people have been killed after a taxi they were travelling in overturned on the R26 outside Bethlehem, in the Free State. Ten other people were injured in the crash, which happened on Saturday morning. Emergency Medical Services spokesperson Sipho Towa says the injured have been taken…
Handover of the remains and reburial of Thabo Mosala. 1 minute The late political activist Thabo Mosala’s remains have been repatriated and reburied at his hometown in Matatiele in the Eastern Cape. Mosala died while in detention in 1976 at Butterworth during the Apartheid era. His passing was recorded as a natural death which left…
National Director of Public Prosecution Advocate Shamila Batohi briefing media on progress made in the Venda Building Society Mutual Bank investigations. 2 minutes National Director of Public Prosecutions, Shamila Batohi, has highlighted salary dispensation as one of the challenges causing setbacks in the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA). Batohi says this has led to the NPA…
