ActionSA Parliamentary leader, Athol Trollip. 2 minutes ActionSA Parliamentary leader, Athol Trollip, has backed a call for the establishment of a commission of inquiry into the state of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA). ActionSA calls for the removal of the failed National Director of Public Prosecutions, Adv Shamila Batohi, and for a parliamentary enquiry into…
President Cyril Ramaphosa. 1 minute President Cyril Ramaphosa says post the White House media briefing the South African delegation had a fruitful engagement with US President Donald Trump’s administration. The President briefed local media at his hotel after the lunch engagement with the Trump administration. He says the US government has agreed to continue trade…
The SAPS’ Operation Vala Umgodi National Intervention (Roving) Team has successfully thwarted a major smuggling operation along the Limpopo River. 1 minute Police have intercepted a smuggling operation along the Limpopo River between South Africa and Zimbabwe. The officers were patrolling near Tshirundu village as part of Operation Vala Umgodi when they received a tip-off…
Fans of Argentine soccer legend Diego Armando Maradona gather at the court case against people charged with Maradona’s death 2 minutes The long-awaited trial of Diego Maradona’s medical team began on Tuesday in Argentina. It’s a case that has sparked strong emotions in the country where the soccer star, who died in 2020, is revered….
murder A woman and her brother were shot dead in Soweto last night during her birthday celebration. It’s alleged that a Police Captain shot and killed the woman, who was his girlfriend and also a fellow police officer together with her brother before turning the gun on himself. South African Police Service spokesperson in Gauteng,…
Sports, Arts and Culture Minister Gayton McKenzie. Sports, Arts and Culture Minister Gayton McKenzie has reacted to FIFA’s ruling to deduct three points from Bafana Bafana in the FIFA World Cup qualifiers and the fine of about R215,000 for fielding an ineligible player, Teboho Mokoena, in the match against Lesotho in March. He says the…
Former Eskom contractor Michael Harry Lomas. 2 minutes The bail outcome for British businessman, Michael Lomas, who is accused of manipulating contracts on power utility Eskom’s Kusile Power Station, to the amount of R1,4 billion, is expected to testify on 17 March. Lomas appeared in the Johannesburg High Court in Gauteng yesterday where his bail…
Arrest for assault graphic 1 minute The Gauteng Department of Education says the arrest of seven girls accused of assaulting a girl learner from Bedfordview High School should serve as a deterrent to other bullies. The learners from Bedfordview High, Kensington High School, Queens High School and Phoenix College, were arrested after a video showing…
A picture of Amantle Samane during her funeral service on 31 October 2024. 1 minute The case of a man accused of raping and murdering a six-year-old girl, in Soweto, Gauteng, has been postponed to the 27th of January 2025 in the Protea Magistrate’s Court. Mozambican national Pethe Simiao was arrested last month after a warrant of…
Shaft 10 exit used by 14 illegal mine workers to emerge from underground. 2 minutes The Gauteng High Court in Pretoria has dismissed the main application launched by organisation, Society for the Protection of our Constitution, amid the operation by law enforcement officials to have suspected illegal miners resurface at the Stilfontein mine shaft in…
