File image: The City of Tshwane’s A Re Yeng bus in the Pretoria CBD. 2 minutes The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) to march to the City of Tshwane Offices in Pretoria today to hand over a memorandum to Mayor Nasiphi Moya demanding payment of 261 former bus drivers’ retrenchment packages. The…
1 minute A police officer, serving as the third witness in the disappearance case of Joslin Smith, will resume his testimony today in the High Court at the Saldanha Bay Circuit in the Western Cape. LIVE STREAM:
Students attending school. 1 minute The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) has announced that applications for Grades One and Eight for the 2026 academic year will open on Tuesday next week. Provincial Education Minister David Maynier confirmed that the application period will close on 15 March 2025. Maynier urged parents to submit all required supporting…
IEC officials engage with Wits University students at the Wits University in Braamfontein, Johannesburg on February 26, 2025, to help them to better understand the electoral process. 1 minute The Electoral Commission (IEC) says it believes that the upcoming public dialogue on electronic voting is an opportunity for South Africans to shape the future of…
President Cyril Ramaphosa 1 minute President Cyril Ramaphosa is set to host his Mozambican counterpart President Daniel Chapo on Tuesday in Cape Town at the official residence of the President. Chapo won the recently held Mozambican elections that saw massive demonstrations after opposition leader Venancio Mondlane claimed victory, but the neighbouring country’s Constitutional Council validated…
A calculator and pen depicted in the picture. 3 minutes Both the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK Party) and the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) have scoffed an alleged attempt by the African National Congress (ANC) to woo them to support an increase in the VAT after the Democratic Alliance (DA) openly opposed to it. Last month Finance…
Ronnie Kasrils. 1 minute Former Minister of State Security and anti-apartheid activist, Ronnie Kasrils has called for unity within trade union federation, the Congress of South African Trade Union (Cosatu). Kasrils was speaking at the 70th anniversary of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (Sactu) in Rivonia, Johannesburg today. In 2014, Numsa was expelled…
National Energy Regulator of South Africa offices in Arcadia, Pretoria. 2 minutes Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Electricity and Energy has criticised the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) for approving Eskom’s application for an increase in electricity tariffs. Last year, Nersa approved the power utility’s 12,7% tariff increase application starting from the first of…
Pensioners wait to be served at a Postbank. 1 minute Postbank CEO, Nikki Mbengashe, says they are confident that they will hit the one million mark of grant beneficiaries migrating from the Sassa gold card to the Postbank black card, within the next week. Senior officials from Postbank are appearing before Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on…
A delegation from Afriforum, Solidariteit, and the Solidarity Movement met with representatives of the Trump administration in Washington. 2 minutes Former Cosatu Deputy Secretary-General Sydney Mufamadi has lashed out at Afrikaner interest group AfriForum and Solidarity’s trip to the US, stating that both organisations want to undo the strides that have been made in post-democratic…
