A customer looks at chocolates for sale in a Christmas offers With Christmas only three days away, a new Debt Rescue survey indicates that the vast majority of South African households are under extreme financial pressure, prompting many families to cut back or cancel their holiday celebrations entirely. According to the survey, 94% of respondents said…
AmaZulu King Misuzulu KaZwelithini 1 minute Security is tight at the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein which is hearing President Cyril Ramaphosa’s appeal of a High Court decision invalidating his recognition of Misuzulu kaZwelithini as King of the Zulu Nation. Roads leading to the SCA have been cordoned off with barbed wire. Members of…
SAPS ‘shooting’ graphic Four people have been killed in three separate shooting incidents in Kraaifontein, Cape Town. Police spokesperson, Wesley Twigg, has confirmed the incidents. At least six people, including four women, have been shot and killed across Kraaifontein in separate incidents in the past week. In another incident, three people were set alight in…
A District Development Model workshop under the banner: “All of Society” and “All of Government” has just kicked off at the Coega Conference Centre, Nelson Mandela Bay. 2 minutes The Eastern Cape government has highlighted the importance of planning in its efforts to improve its delivery of basic services. It is hosting a two-day District Development…
People work in a chicken processing plant. 1 minute University of Johannesburg’s Director of the Centre for Africa-China Studies David Monyae says the newly imposed tariffs on South Africa by the United States points to the death of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA). US President Donald Trump last week imposed a 31% duty…
ANC Deputy President Paul Mashatile at the South African Communist Party (SACP) Special Congress Deputy President Paul Mashatile has been found guilty by Parliament’s Ethics Committee for failing to declare a diamond gift from businessman Louis Liebenberg, who is currently facing criminal charges. The committee imposed a R10 000 fine and recommended that Mashatile be…
A person drinking water from a tap. The City of Tshwane MMC for Utilities, Frans Boshielo, has confirmed that most reservoirs in the city are currently above 50% capacity. Parts of the city have experienced water cuts since last week due to interruptions in the Rand Water system, which supplies 80% of the city’s water….
National Police Commissioner, Fannie Masemola briefs the media. National Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola says searches have been undertaken by the Hawks Crimes Against the State Unit at farms near Lesotho and no evidence of training camps for Basotho, seeking to reclaim land from South Africa, have been found to date. Lesotho Police Chief Borotho Matsoso…
Job seekers stand in a line hoping to be picked for employment. 1 minute Political analyst Sipho Seepe, says the uMkhonto weSizwe Party leader Jacob Zuma‘s argument that black people are marginalised stems from the current reality of millions unemployed and poor South Africans. Zuma says it is possible for black political parties to unite…
Matric exams well wish. Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube says her department is fully prepared to administer the 2025 matric examinations. Over 900 000 candidates will sit for the examinations which will start on Tuesday. Gwarube briefed the media in Skukuza, Mpumalanga on Monday, on her department’s state of readiness for the exams “All nine…
