Joshlin’s mother, Kelly Smith, her boyfriend, Jacquen Appollis, and Steveno van Rhyn are facing charges of kidnapping and trafficking related to the child’s disappearance. 1 minute The trial of the three accused in connection with the disappearance of Joshlin Smith continues on Thursday at the High Court sitting in Saldanha on the Cape West Coast….
[FILE IMAGE] Spaza shop. 3 minutes Spaza shop owners in Gqeberha have begun the registration process to ensure they comply with the health and safety standards within the 21 days stipulated by President Cyril Ramaphosa. Since September, 890 incidents of food-borne illnesses have been reported nationwide, with Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal leading the field. Spaza owners…
Speaker of the National Assembly, Thoko Didiza South Africa and the US have agreed to formally hand over the baton of the 11th G20 Parliamentary Speakers’ Summit agreements to the American embassy in Pretoria. This has emerged at the conclusion of the P20 summit held at the Arabella Golf Estate in Hermanus, Western Cape. Different…
President Cyril Ramaphosa. 1 minute President Cyril Ramaphosa has called on South Africans to challenge the narrative that their country is a place where people of a certain race or culture are being targeted for persecution. He made the call in his weekly newsletter in which he reflects on Human Rights Day which was celebrated…
Suspended Ekurhuleni Head of Legal and Risk Services Advocate Kemi Behari says he has never interacted with witness D also known as Marius van der Merwe and the allegations against him are unfounded. Van der Merwe was killed in an apparent hit in Boksburg last year. Behari has on Monday morning taken to the stand at…
Learners walking, picture taken from behind. Equal Education (EE) and the Equal Education Law Centre (EELC) have welcomed the recent Western Cape High Court ruling that the Western Cape Education Department’s Learner Admissions system unfairly discriminates against Black and marginalised learners. The organisations approached the Western Cape High Court in April, asking that it declare…
Major-General Shadrack Sibiya. The issue of the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Political Killings Task Team dockets has come up in the High Court in Pretoria, where Major-General Shadrack Sibiya is challenging his suspension. The South African Police Services has clarified that the original dockets will remain with the KZN Political Killings Task Team, while copies will be…
A worker sells eggs to a customer at a spaza shop. 1 minute Owners of food outlets including tuck shops also called spaza shops in Bloemfontein are frustrated over the looming deadline for the registration of their businesses. Some say municipal authorities have sent them back many times on grounds that their documents are incomplete….
uMkhonto weSizwe MK Party MP Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla 1 minute uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP) Member of Parliament Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla has reiterated that there is no instability in the party. Zuma-Sambudla was speaking during party activities in Seshego outside Polokwane in Limpopo. The MK Party has recently announced the redeployment of Floyd Shivambu from the Secretary-General position…
Canola plants blossom in a field beneath electricity pylons, as South African utility Eskom experiences frequent power outages, near Cape Town, South Africa, September 8, 2022. 1 minute Independent Energy Analyst Clyde Mallinson says 11 million households in the country live in energy poverty. His comments follow the National Energy Regulator of South Africa’s (Nersa)…
