West Indies’ Shai Hope in action during the Second One Day International against England at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff, Wales, Britain on June 1, 2025. 2 minutes West Indies batter Shai Hope is in line to play his first test in almost four years after being recalled to the squad for their home series against Australia,…
A man walks past election posters. 2 minutes Advocacy group, My Vote Counts, is challenging the Political Funding Act in the Western Cape High Court today. The organisation claims the Act falls short of its constitutional goals of transparency, openness and accountability. My Vote Counts is objecting to provisions that allow donations below R100 000…
Senior Cabinet minister and South African Communist Party leader Blade Nzimande. Senior Cabinet minister and South African Communist Party (SACP) leader, Blade Nzimande has announced plans to retire from government and Parliament, bringing to a close decades of work. Speaking to the SABC, Nzimande dismissed suggestions that his recent public interventions are aimed at protecting…
The cocaine, weighing about 80 kilograms, was found hidden in a storage room on the premises in Blue Hills, Midrand. A crime intelligence-driven operation has led to the discovery of cocaine worth R20 million at a smallholding in Blue Hills, Midrand. Police say a multidisciplinary team led by the Crime Intelligence Head Office, together with…
South African actor Presley Chweneyagae. 2 minutes Family, friends and colleagues of award-winning actor Presley Chweneyagae will gather at the State Theatre in Pretoria this morning to honour him at a memorial service. Chweneyagae passed away of natural causes last week, at his home in Pretoria. The 40-year-old was best known for his leading role…
Power lines. 2 minutes Minister of Electricity and Energy Kgosientsho Ramokgopa says the government is taking steps to eliminate load reduction nationwide. Ramokgopa has been meeting with the mayors of Limpopo municipalities in Polokwane. He encouraged municipalities to explore electricity generation, as a means to reduce load shedding and create revenue streams. Although the country…
Helen Joseph Hospital in Johannesburg. 1 minute The Helen Joseph Hospital in Johannesburg has failed to spend R98-million of its budget for machinery and equipment in the last five years. This is contained in a written reply to a question to Gauteng Health MEC Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko by the DA’s Gauteng Health spokesperson Jack Bloom in…
FILE | Police and miners in Marikana Questions are being asked about authorities’ accountability for the Marikana massacre at the Lonmin platinum mine near Rustenburg, in the North West, 13 years ago. Preparations have been finalised for the commemoration of the anniversary of one of the darkest chapters in post-apartheid South Africa. Police gunned down…
Sindiso Magaqa’s picture seen with a logo of the ANC Youth League. 1 minute The Pietermaritzburg High Court has set a date for the trial of two men accused of the killing former African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) secretary-general and Umzimkhulu councillor, Sindiso Magaqa. Magaqa was killed in an ambush in 2017. The trial…
A worker harvests grapes at the La Motte wine farm in Franschoek near Cape Town, South Africa Experts have warned that uncertainty over jobs and trade still hangs over South Africa following the expiration of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA). Political economist Professor Patrick Bond says in the absence of any relief on…
