[FILE IMAGE]: Springbok players line up before a match. Springbok lock Jean Kleyn has been ruled out of the squad for the incoming series after sustaining an injury during the team’s 54-7 victory against the Barbarians in Cape Town on Saturday. Kleyn, who started the match with lock partner Lood de Jager, will return to…
Steve Biko Academic Hospital Building. President Cyril Ramaphosa will conduct an oversight visit to the Nuclear Medicine Research Infrastructure Facility at the Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria on Tuesday. The facility is a one-stop medical imaging facility dedicated to cancer and tuberculosis (TB) drug development and clinical research. The President will be joined by…
National Director of Public Prosecutions, Advocate Shamila Batohi The Nkabinde Enquiry says the Justice Department has not yet responded to National Director of Public Prosecutions Advocate Shamila Batohi’s application for the amendment of the enquiry’s terms of reference. She made a similar application to the enquiry whose panel has since rejected it. The enquiry will…
Image source: fauxels from Pexels The International Monetary Fund report released halfway through 2024 found that while global growth looks relatively stable on the surface, there are undercurrents affecting overall positivity and momentum. The world is, as the report describes, in a sticky spot. And people do not work in isolation of these undercurrents. Gallup…
2 minutes Moody’s has revised its GDP growth forecast for South Africa downward to 1.5% for 2025, down from its earlier projection of 1.7%. The credit rating agency attributed the revision to global policy uncertainty and escalating trade tensions, which have prompted downward adjustments to growth forecasts worldwide. Global credit rating agency Moody’s has revised…
Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi. Some residents of Eldorado Park in Johannesburg have reacted positively to Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi’s State of the Province Address at Nasrec. He unveiled a multi-million-rand infrastructure upgrade plan to address the water crisis in the province. It includes constructing new reservoirs, expanding storage capacity and accelerating repairs on pipelines and…
Muslims attend Eid al-Fitr prayers which mark the end of Ramadan, in Al-Aqsa compound, also known to Jews as Temple Mount, amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Jerusalem’s Old City. 1 minute President Cyril Ramaphosa has wished the Muslim community well as they prepare to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr,…
President of the African Transformation Movement, Vuyolwethu Zungula 2 minutes The African Transformation Movement says it’s getting ready for next year’s local government elections. The party is holding a national rally at the Petrus Molemela stadium in Bloemfontein, where it is expected to announce its strategy leading the 2026 polls. Party spokesperson Zama Ntshoba says…
The Roodepoort Magistrates’ Court in Johannesburg is hearing the bail application for Tiffany Meek 31, woman accused of the murder of her son Jayden-Lee Meek. Jayden-Lee was dropped off by his school transport on the day he went missing but never made it home. His body was found the following day by a resident in…
Police officials seen visiting Reiger Park on Monday. Some people in Reiger Park, east of Johannesburg, say they hope that the plans by Acting Police Minister, Firoz Cachalia, to end the ongoing gang violence in the area are not just empty promises. Cachalia and high-ranking police officials held a ministerial stakeholder engagement with community leaders,…
