A member of the Save Act, an informal savings club known as stokvels, counts bank notes before making her contribution 2 minutes Crime stakeholders, including community policing forums and security companies have warned communities to be more vigilant and to avoid being victims of crime this festive season. Security stakeholders say the common trend is…
File | Sewage spillage. A five-month water outage has forced residents of Kokosi near Fochville on Gauteng’s West Rand to fetch water from a sewage drain. Rand Water reduced supply to the Merafong Municipality, saying it owes them over R1 billion and that negotiations to settle the bill fell off. Community leader Shimani Ramatshosa says…
This morning Minister Dr. Kgosientsho Ramokgopa briefed the media regarding significant updates on key developments in South Africa’s Nuclear Energy Program. The Minister of Electricity and Energy, Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, has announced that Eskom plans to add 5.2 gigawatts of new nuclear capacity to the national system through future nuclear builds. This is part of a…
Women’s Proteas Cricket Team win third ODI of four in Pakistan series in Lahore. The South African women’s cricket team has clinched the three-match One Day International (ODI) series against Pakistan. On Friday night, the Proteas won the second ODI in Lahore by 25 runs. The visitors who were sent in to bat made 292…
Diesel pump Motorists are expected to get some reprieve when the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy announces the September fuel price adjustments before they take effect on Wednesday next week. The Central Energy Fund’s preliminary data shows a possible four-cent drop for a litre of 95-grade petrol, while 93-grade is expected to decrease by…
Minister of Higher Education and Training Dr Nobuhle Nkabane 2 minutes The Presidency says Higher Education Minister Nobuhle Nkabane must account for her conduct in Parliament last week to President Cyril Ramaphosa. She appeared before the Portfolio Committee on Higher Education to explain her Sector Education and Training Authority (SETA) Board appointments which had drawn…
A gavel used in a court of law. 1 minute The case of three men who appeared briefly at the Ntuzuma Magistrate’s Court in KwaMashu has been postponed to November 25th. The suspects are facing multiple charges including murder, attempted murder and robbery. They were arrested after they were seen in a video on social…
The Pretoria Magistrate’s Court. The Pretoria High Court sitting in Benoni is expected to deliver judgment in the murder case of Daveyton student activist Caiphus Nyoka. Three former apartheid security officers, Leon Louis van den Berg, Abraham Hercules Engelbrecht and Pieter Egbert Stander, are accused of killing Nyoka while he was asleep at his family…
South African National Defence Force (SANDF) soldiers parading. 2 minutes Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans, Dakota Legoete, says South Africans must stay calm with regards to the issue of South African Defence Force’s (SANDF) presence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This follows the loss of nine soldiers this…
A person in handcuffs. 1 minute Longwe Twala, the son of music producer, Sello ‘Chicco’ Twala has been re-arrested. This after he failed to appear in court last month after he was released from custody when his lawyers argued he was not a flight risk. A warrant for his arrest was then issued. In September,…
