Water running from a tap Water and Sanitation Minister Pemmy Majodina says while the second phase of the Klipdrift Water Treatment Plant has been completed, clean water may still take weeks to reach taps in some Hammanskraal areas due to ongoing flushing processes. The plant, which is a temporary intervention while a R450m upgrade of…
Former President Thabo Mbeki at UNISA in Pretoria. South African artist, Yvonne Chaka Chaka has been honoured with the Outstanding Alumna Award at the University of South Africa (Unisa) Chancellor’s Calabash Awards in Pretoria. Several other outstanding South Africans were honoured by Unisa Chancellor, former President Thabo Mbeki, for doing good in their communities. Chaka…
VBS branch. 2 minutes The VBS Mutual Bank liquidator’s office says it has managed to recover R670-million which will be paid to verified creditors. It says they include municipalities that had invested in the defunct institution. Before the bank collapsed more than six years ago, 14 municipalities and thousands of clients had invested in it….
The washed away vehicle in Gordon/Stapleton Road incident. 2 minutes A woman in her fifties has died after her vehicle was swept off a bridge during heavy overnight rains in the eThekwini Municipality. The incident occurred on Sarnia Road in Pinetown, west of Durban. The vehicle was washed away by floodwaters during the torrential downpours….
People queued outside education department offices in Gauteng on Wednesday morning, January 15, 2025. 1 minute The Gauteng Department of Education says it will determine the number of learners who will not return to schools in the province after a ten-day headcount period. Parents and guardians have been queuing at various centres in the province,…
Police making an arrest in Woodstock 1 minute Police in Cape Town have conducted what they say is an integrated operation between SAPS and other law enforcement agencies in Woodstock just outside the city centre. Spokesperson Welsey Twigg says this follows numerous complaints involving cyclists and pedestrians who were robbed and injured at Lower Church…
OUTA CEO, Wayne Duvenage says concluding the report into corruption at Tembisa Hospital should never take so long. The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) says it’s disappointing that it took so long for the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) to complete its interim report into the Tembisa Hospital corruption scandal. The SIU report reveals that R2…
1 minute The National Day of Prayer takes place at the FNB Stadium in Nasrec, Johannesburg. The event is being hosted by the Motsepe Foundation. Live stream below:
Police at Port Alfred, Eastern Cape, have opened an investigation after a 22-year-old man from Limpopo went missing at East Beach on Friday. It is alleged that three friends, two males and a female, who are Rhodes University students, had gone swimming at East Beach when all three may have been caught in rip currents….
An empty classroom 1 minute There are growing calls for the stringent vetting of people who come in contact with learners. The safety of learners remains a concern for anti-gender-based violence organisation, Second Chance, as schools prepare to reopen next week. Crime statistics for the second quarter of the 2024-2025 financial show that at least…
