An illegal miner holds a spade. 1 minute More details are emerging in an incident in which police found the bodies of six suspected illegal miners at a disused mine in Diepkloof, Johannesburg on Friday. Police say the bodies were found on top of each other in the vicinity of shaft 17. Each had a…
File photo: South Africa coach Rassie Erasmus 1 minute Springbok coach Rassie Erasmus has rolled out the heavy artillery for his team’s test match against England at Twickenham in London on Saturday. He has made 12 changes to the starting fifteen that beat Scotland at Murrayfield in Edinburgh on Sunday. The most notable of those…
File: A container ship docked at a port SARS Commissioner Edward Kieswetter says the country has managed to achieve a trade surplus of R240-billion despite the lacklustre performance in exports. Kieswetter indicated that trade, specifically imports from the United States, had dropped during the period under review. SARS earlier announced that it had exceeded R2-trillion…
Mopping up operations have begun in the Eastern Cape. 1 minute President Cyril Ramaphosa is set to visit the flood-ravaged areas in Mthatha in the Eastern Cape on Friday. A devastating winter storm left a trail of destruction leaving at least 78 people dead. President Ramaphosa expressed his sadness at the loss of lives and…
passport fraud TWO more Registrar-General officials appeared in court for fraudulently issuing passports to four Cameroonian nationals. Tapiwa Hove (38) and Sean Makuku (38), who were jointly charged with Leona Fungai (35), were remanded in custody to today for bail application by Harare regional magistrate Marehwanazvo Gofa. They are being charged with bribery and contravening…
Tennis player from the Philippines Alexandra Eala Alexandra Eala became the first player from the Philippines to reach a WTA Tour final as she beat fellow qualifier Varvara Gracheva 7-5 2-6 6-3 on the Eastbourne grass on Friday. The 20-year-old left-hander, ranked 74th in the world, edged a tight first set before losing five games…
ANC top leadership Political analyst Professor Bheki Mngomezulu says allowing African National Congress (ANC) members in good standing to elect their president as opposed to being the only preserve of delegates to elective conferences will not change the party’s electoral fortunes. He says the ANC problems revolve around failures to implement its own crafted policies…
Handcuffs depicting an arrest. Two foreign nationals are due to appear in the Vredendal Magistrate’s Court on Monday after dagga with a street value of over R700 thousand was found in their possession. Police Spokesperson, FC Van Wyk, says the Provincial Narcotics Unit, the Vredendal Crime Prevention Unit and Namaqualand K9 Unit, conducted a search…
Gauteng Traffic Police conduct a roadblock on 29 December 2024. 2 minutes Gauteng Traffic Police have arrested 17 suspects for driving under the influence of alcohol in various parts of the province. Five other suspects were arrested on the N1 freeway for driving at 170 kilometres per hour in a 120 kilometre zone. Spokesperson Sello…
SABC building in Auckland Park, Johannesburg. The Department of Communications and Digital Technologies has requested Parliament not to disclose the other part of the report on the proposed new funding model for the SABC to the public. The department and the private company, BMIT Knowledge Group Pty Ltd, have requested that progress made on developing…
