A rhino is photographed during a rescue operation. Wits University scientists that have launched anti-rhino poaching project are optimistic that it will alleviate the crisis. The scientists in collaboration with their counterparts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have come up with the Rhisotope project. They are injecting rhino horns with low-level radioactive isotopes…
Northern Cape Mental Health Hospital. Following the release of the Health Ombudsman’s report detailing the poor state of care at Kimberley Mental Hospital in the Northern Cape, some families have asked the health department to take responsibility for the sub-standard healthcare their family members received. One family alleges their parent, who was a psychiatric patient,…
Pictured: Chantelle Burrows. Image supplied. Burrows has been instrumental in Atlas Finance’s rebranding efforts, transforming over 260 branches to align with the company’s new identity and values, while also overseeing the monthly opening of new branches. She has also played a key role in the company’s evolution from a microlender to a financial services provider….
MK Party member Dr. John Hlophe 1 minute The Western Cape High Court has dismissed with punitive costs the uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) political party and Dr. John Hlophe’s bid for leave to appeal against the full court order that barred Hlophe, in the interim, from participating in the Judicial Service Commission (JSC). This comes…
Flooding is seen along a section of the N12 between Bloemhof and Christiana, adjacent to the Bloemhof Golf Course on 29 April 2025. 2 minutes Floods in areas near the Vaal River have severely affected about 130 households in the Lekwa-Teemane Local Municipality in Bloemhof in the North West. Last Friday, ten sluice gates of…
Rescuers, Saps Search and Rescue, Gauteng EMS are currently attending to a search and rescue operation. 1 minute Johannesburg Emergency Services are currently conducting a search and rescue operation for an unknown number of alleged illegal miners at an abandoned mine shaft in Roodepoort, West of Johannesburg. The exact circumstances surrounding the incident are still…
A sign showing a business closed The Eastern Cape’s unemployment rate remains stubbornly high at 39.5% despite the province adding 89 000 jobs, in the last quarter. While trade, domestic work and construction has driven gains, the closure of major manufacturing employers is fuelling concern. Tyre giant Goodyear, once a source of hundreds of jobs,…
Gun and bullets. Four men have been gunned down in a mass shooting this morning at the Overcome Heights informal settlement in Muizenberg in Cape Town. Police say the victims are between the ages of 20 and 37 years old. Their bodies were found on the side of the road. The circumstances surrounding the deaths…
New born babies The National Department of Health has raised serious concern over a sharp increase in teenagers giving birth recorded on New Year’s Day. Over 160 teenagers gave birth this year, compared to just over 80 last year. More than 1 600 babies were delivered across South Africa’s public health facilities. The department says…
KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi. Some members of Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee want KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi to put his retraction of some allegations against former Police minister Bheki Cele in writing. They also want Mkhwanazi to offer a public apology to Cele. This after the evidence leader – Advocate Norman Arendse…
