1 minute The funeral service of police Constable Cebekhulu Linda takes place this morning at the Saint Rose Catholic Church in Bochabela, Bloemfontein. He was one of the three constables whose bodies were retrieved from the Hennops River in Centurion, Pretoria, last week. Live proceedings below:
File image: One of Ithala Bank branches. 1 minute The KwaZulu-Natal Development Bank, Ithala will continue to operate normally, but will not be taking deposits. This is according to a judgment, which the High Court in Pietermaritzburg delivered yesterday. Ithala had sought an urgent court interdict against the Repayment Administrator’s instruction in January that its…
ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa with the SACP leadership. 1 minute The South African Community Party (SACP) and African National Congress (ANC) have agreed to set up a joint alliance consensus mechanism to speed up their reconfiguration programme. This follows a meeting between party leaders in Johannesburg on Monday. The meeting was led by ANC president,…
Reading braille 2 minutes A mainstream school teacher, who became visually impaired after his appointment as a teacher, says the Basic Education Department would not have hired him had he been blind prior to his appointment. The teacher was speaking during a march by visually impaired teachers, who matched to the Basic Education Department in…
A cross seen as the sun sets 1 minute The Freedom Front Plus (FF Plus) says it hopes that US President Donald Trump’s video of white crosses that memorialise white victims of farm murders, will lead to the allocation of resources to curbing the crime. This comes a few days after the meeting between President…
Three gang members sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a rival gang member. 1 minute Three gang members have been sentenced to life terms each for the murder of a rival gang member in Lavender Hill on the Cape Flats. The High Court in Cape Town also sentenced them to five years each…
Eddie Jordan during his F1 days 3 minutes Eddie Jordan, the charismatic Irish entrepreneur whose team gave Michael Schumacher a Formula One debut in 1991 has died of cancer at home in South Africa aged 76, his family said on Thursday. Jordan, who later became a television pundit, entered the ‘Piranha Club’ world of grand prix racing with his eponymous…
ActionSA and the Democratic Alliance (DA) are taking legal action against the eThekwini Municipality in the Pietermaritzburg High Court. The two parties accuse the municipality of failing to repair sewage infrastructure, which they say has led to raw sewage leaking into rivers and the ocean. The ongoing issue has resulted in high levels of E.coli…
A general view of a production line of a car manufacturer. South Africa’s manufacturing sector has started the year on a weaker footing, with production slipping 0.7% year-on-year in January. The decline was due to sharp contractions in the wood, paper, publishing and printing industry as well as the basic iron, steel and machinery division….
A Microsoft logo is seen outside one of their offices. 1 minute President Cyril Ramaphosa has welcomed software giant Microsoft plan to invest R5,4 billion in South Africa. The world’s biggest software maker made the announcement on Thursday, at the Microsoft South Africa head office in Johannesburg. President Ramaphosa delivered the keynote address during the…
