Former Mauritanian Finance Minister Sidi Ould Tah elected president of the African Development Bank (AfDB) 1 minute Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana says he is looking forward to working with the newly elected African Development Bank (AfDB) Group President- elect Sidi Ould Tah, who won with over 70 percent of the votes. Tah was backed by…
Children at an ECD centre are given food. 1 minute President Cyril Ramaphosa will open the Bana Pele Early Childhood Development (ECD) Leadership Summit in Johannesburg this morning. The summit is co-convened by the Department of Basic Education and Business Leadership South Africa. The aim of the summit is to mobilise a public and private…
{FILE IMAGE]: A pedestrian being attended to by paramedics. 2 minutes The Gauteng Traffic Police is urging motorists to exercise extreme caution and remain vigilant when driving, especially when approaching pedestrians. This warning comes after two pedestrians were killed after being struck by vehicles on the N1 freeway near Grasmere in Johannesburg within a one-hour…
MKP leader, Jacob Zuma. The High Court in Pretoria has dismissed former President Jacob Zuma and the uMkhonto we Sizwe Party’s bid to revive their legal challenge against President Cyril Ramaphosa’s decision to place Police Minister Senzo Mchunu on a special leave of absence. The court also dismissed the challenge to the subsequent appointment of…
Enoch Ndou sits in the dock at the High Court in Thohoyandou, Limpopo. 1 minute Convicted multiple murderer, Enoch Ndou, has been sentenced to life imprisonment plus 90 years by the Thohoyandou High Court in Limpopo. Ndou was found guilty of shooting and killing seven of his family members on Christmas Day in 2021. The…
Lesotho Highlands Water Tunnel 1 minute The Lesotho Highlands Water Tunnel has finally been reopened after being two months behind schedule. The maintenance, repair and refurbishment work started in October last year and was initially scheduled to be completed within six months. The tunnel channels water from Lesotho to South Africa delivering about 700 million…
Camden Eskom power station. 2 minutes Eskom implemented Stage 2 loadshedding on Wednesday evening after announcing that the power utility had lost five generating units. The latest data from Eskom shows that the power utility struggled to keep up with electricity demand during the peak hours of Tuesday evening, having only 285.5 megawatts of capacity…
Workers collect tea seedlings for replanting at a farm in South Africa. A Limpopo entrepreneur says health problems and unemployment motivated her to come up with tea blends which are aimed at treating various ailments. Tryphinah Moshomane had been working at a factory at Seshego since 2019. Her herbal teas are now sold at various…
Free State Premier MaQueen Letsoha-Mathae celebrates Heritage Day in Reddersburg on September 24, 2025. Free State Premier MaQueen Letsoha-Mathae has condemned the abuse of elderly people. Some organisations have raised concerns about the abuse and harassment of elderly people in their respective communities. As a result, the office of the Premier held an Older Persons…
South African bank notes. 1 minute Limpopo Economic Development MEC Tshitereke Matibe says they will remodel business funding agencies to allow easy access of funds for small businesses. Matibe says in the new model young people will be able to access funds from business agencies. The commitment comes in line with the Premier Phophi Ramathuba’s…
