Convicted murderer and rapist Thabo Bester addresses the High Court in Pretoria on September 17, 2024. 4 minutes The Free State High Court has reserved judgment in Thabo Bester’s application against alleged unfair treatment by the Correctional Services Department. The lawyer of escaped convicted serial rapist and murderer Bester had a hard time convincing the…
Graphic depicting wages 2 minutes COSATU has dismissed as false, the long-standing assertion of a bloated public sector wage bill, as workers look to the upcoming budget for relief. Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana will have to walk a tight rope when he delivers his 2025 budget tomorrow. But government workers want an expansion of the…
3 minutes Legal experts have advised companies to adapt to the Companies Amendment Act, which was signed into law late last year. Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr hosted a webinar earlier this week to explain the new amendments. The Act focuses on the ease of doing business by clarifying, simplifying and strengthening certain sections of the law. Operational…
The IEC’s E-voting Conference at the Cape Town International Convention Centre on March 10, 2025 2 minutes The uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party’s National Organiser, Joseph Ndlela, says they reject the proposal for an electronic voting (e-voting) process. He was speaking at the Electoral Commission of South Africa’s (IEC) e-voting Conference underway in Cape Town on…
1 minute The trial within a trial in the R255 million asbestos roof removal case resumes in the Bloemfontein High Court in the Free State. Live proceedings below:
People wearing masks. 1 minute Concerns about Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) have increased since the outbreak in China in December 2024. Many people are questioning whether it could lead to another pandemic, similar to the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020. According to the World Health Organisation, there is usually a rise in acute respiratory infections during winter…
File Image: Political parties seen on screen. 1 minute 192 political parties met their fate after the IEC disclosed that it has 609 registered political parties, of which 383 are registered at a national level while the remaining 226 are registered at a municipal level. In a statement released by the IEC earlier this month,…
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana. 2 minutes The DA says it’s hoping for a case of third time lucky when Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana delivers his Budget Speech on Wednesday. The first Budget Speech on the 19th of February was cancelled a few minutes before the address after partners in the Government of National Unity rejected…
Five accused drug lords appearing in the Groblersdal Magistrate’s Court in Limpopo. 1 minute Five accused drug lords have briefly appeared in the Groblersdal Magistrate’s Court in Limpopo. The accused, Frederick Botha, Simphiwe Khumalo and three Mexican nationals, Ruben Vidal Rodriguez, Gutierrez Lopez Alejandro and Gonzalez Jorge Partida were arrested in connection with the drug bust…
JMPD conduct inspections on spaza shops in the Johannesburg CBD on December 8, 2024. 1 minute The Limpopo Department of Economic Development has issued a warning to spaza shop owners in the province, cautioning them against continued operations without proper registration. As from Friday all unlicensed spaza shops will be expected to close down their…
