President Cyril Ramphosa speaks at the 20th Commission Session and the Inauguration of the new commissioners at the Sefako Makgatho Presidential Guesthouse in Pretoria on December 5, 2025. President Cyril Ramaphosa has lauded the Presidential Climate Commission for raising concerns about the impact of climate change on the country. Ramaphosa was speaking at the 20th…
Proteas Women celebrate a wicket during a ICC match. South Africa’s Women’s Cricket Team (Proteas Women) will kick off its summer action with a three-match T20 series against Ireland starting in Cape Town on Friday. Captain Laura Wolvaardt is thrilled to be back on home soil and to be playing at her home ground, the…
Kylian Mbappe Real Madrid’s Kylian Mbappe will have Cristiano Ronaldo’s club record for goals in a calendar year in his sights when Los Blancos face Celta Vigo in LaLiga at the Santiago Bernabeu on Sunday. Mbappe, who has scored 55 goals in all competitions in as many matches in 2025, is four goals shy of…
Picture shows a man handcuffed The North West Legislature’s Portfolio Committee on Community Safety has welcomed the arrests of five people who reportedly scammed people R10 000, promising them jobs at the Matlosana Local Municipality. Police say Paul Itumeleng, Tuelo Molekane, Simon Sethabela and Thabo Kgafane, have already appeared in court for fraud, corruption…
Picture that shows Pinetown Home Affairs offices. The Home Affairs Department says it will extend operating hours at its offices from Monday 8 December to 19 December 2025, and again on the 5th to the 16th of January 2026. The department says the operating hours will be extended by two hours, meaning that the offices will now close…
World Bank headquarters in Washington. The gap between developing nations’ debt servicing costs and new financing hit a more than 50-year high of $741 billion between 2022 and 2024, the World Bank said on Wednesday, urging countries to use the more relaxed global financing conditions to bring their houses in order. In its annual International…
Judge Ratha Mokgoathleng presides over the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial at the High Court in Pretoria on December 5, 2025. The High Court in Pretoria has ruled that police officers who were present when defence witness Sifiso Gwabini Zungu disposed of a statement be recalled in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial. This comes as the…
Convicted murderer appears at the Bloemfontein High Court in the Free State on 05 December 2025. Convicted murderer and rapist Thabo Bester and co-accused Nandipha Magudumana have submitted that they need more time to finalise their pending legal matters. They appeared in the Bloemfontein High Court in the Free State for another pre-trial hearing. The accused are facing…
Police Minister Senzo Mchunu. Police Minister Senzo Mchunu is expected to return to the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry in Pretoria on Friday morning. On Thursday, he struggled to defend his decision to disband the Political Killings Task Team (PKTT) in KwaZulu-Natal. Mchunu faced intense cross-examination from the commission’s Chairperson, retired Constitutional Court Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga….
Thabo Bester and his co-accused Dr Nandipha Magudumana appear in court. Thabo Bester and co-accused Nandipha Magudumana are expected back in the Bloemfontein High Court in the Free State on Friday for another pre-trial hearing in their prison escape matter. They both have pending legal matters, including Magudumana’s Constitutional Court appeal. Bester is challenging his incarceration conditions,…
