City of Johannesburg’s Emergency Management Service (EMS) rescuers attending to a building collapse in Ormonde on March 2, 2026. Search and rescue operations are set to continue at a construction site in Ormonde in Johannesburg following a deadly building collapse. Six bodies were retrieved from the rubble on Monday, while three are still missing. The…
Signboard welcoming people to Limpopo Province Limpopo province is witnessing a surge in royal succession battles, with several kingdoms and a queendom embroiled in intense disputes. The battles include, the Vhavenda, Bapedi, Vatsonga and the Balobedu. These battles have also left the people uncertain about their traditional leadership. Some members of the Bapedi Royal House…
Democratic Alliance (DA) Gauteng Leader Solly Msimanga Opposition parties in Gauteng are calling on Premier Panyaza Lesufi to present clear plans and real results, not new promises when he delivers his State of the Province Address (SOPA), on Monday evening. The Democratic Alliance (DA) says when Lesufi takes to the podium, he must explain how…
ANC member and former Gauteng housing MEC Dikgang Moiloa. African National Congress (ANC) member Dikgang Moiloa has died. The party has confirmed that he died on Saturday. Moiloa, who was affectionately known as ‘Uhuru’ which means freedom in Swahili, served in the Gauteng Legislature in different portfolios. The African National Congress bows its banners in…
Online betting on the rise in SA The National Gambling Act of 2004 needs to be updated from a digital point of view, to accommodate for the rise in online betting and the advent of social media. That’s according to the South African Responsible Gambling Foundation (SAGF), who say the laws surrounding gambling are over…
File image | Taxis at taxi rank. The Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department (EMPD) Taxi Task Team has impounded 66 unroadworthy minibus-taxis this week in Tsakane, Germiston and Boksburg. The operation was conducted in collaboration with Gauteng Traffic Police and SAPS officers. During the joint operation, officers discovered that the vehicles were operating without proper permits…
EFF Leader Julius Malema. 2 minutes Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader, Julius Malema, has scoffed at suggestions that the departure of some senior party leaders signals the beginning of the end for the party. This follows the resignation of the party’s former national chairperson, Advocate Dali Mpofu, this week. Mpofu has joined a list of party…
South African women’s cricket team. The South African women’s cricket team recorded a stunning last-ball victory in the first of three One Day Internationals against New Zealand in Christchurch. The Proteas beat the White Ferns by two wickets. Chasing 269 for victory, top order batters, Annerie Dercksen and Sune Luus, laid the foundation with a…
1 minute The re-opened inquest into the death of former ANC president Chief Albert Luthuli resumes in the High Court in Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu-Natal this morning. The Luthuli family wants the court to overturn the findings of the original inquest that his death was an accident. The anti-apartheid activist died in 1967 after a train…
A tap with running water. Service delivery challenges in the Northern Cape have seen the Human Rights Commission (HRC) holding a two-day engagement in Kimberley with politicians, municipal officials and civil society groups, to find solutions. At the top of the agenda were issues around the lack of access to water in some communities and…
