A tap with running water. 1 minute UMngeni-uThukela Water will conduct a 24-hour shutdown of its Wiggins Water Treatment Works from 4 am on Tuesday. The service will resume on Wednesday at the same time. eThekwini Municipality spokesperson Siyabonga Maphumulo says the shutdown aims to replace a gravity sales meter and check pipeline meters for…
Entrance of Wynberg Magistrate’s Court in Cape Town on October 29, 2020. 1 minute A woman is expected to appear in the Wynberg Magistrates court in the Western Cape on Monday in connection with a fatal shooting in the building last week. Last week Tuesday, a man believed to be a taxi owner was gunned…
A crossword puzzle promoting Autism awareness. 2 minutes Stakeholders and experts from across the African continent will meet in Johannesburg today and tomorrow for the inaugural Autism in Africa Conference. This comes as April marks Autism Awareness Month. Autism spectrum disorder is a condition related to brain development that impacts how a person perceives and…
A South African Police Service graphic, illustrating a hunt for shooting suspects. Three people have been shot dead in Milnerton, Cape Town. Police say the incident occurred at the Ekuphumleni informal settlement in Du Noon in the early hours of Monday morning. Unidentified suspects opened fire on the deceased in front of a shack and…
2 minutes Residents of Zeerust in the North West who recently staged a protest blocking key entrances to the town over ongoing water shortages, say they remain frustrated. The demonstrations which lasted several days have since ended. The residents say despite the presence of boreholes and reservoirs capable of supplying water to all residents, government…
RAF holds claim queries session at Maponya Mall in Soweto on June14, 2025 Action SA says it supports Parliament’s decision to launch a full inquiry into the Road Accident Fund (RAF). The party criticised the RAF, calling it a centre of corruption and mismanagement after a poor performance by its board before parliament’s Standing Committee…
ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula. The African National Congress (ANC) says it has no plans to replace Dada Morero with Loyiso Masuku as Johannesburg mayor. This follows Masuku’s recent election as the new ANC Greater Johannesburg regional chairperson, defeating the incumbent Morero in an internal party vote. ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula says being a chairperson of…
5 minutes South Africa has adopted an investment roadmap to fund the expansion and modernisation of its transmission infrastructure. Government aims to tap into the private sector’s resources to raise R440 billion for the rollout of transmission infrastructure in the next 10 years. South Africa amended the Electricity Regulation Act going into 2025 to allow…
Initiates walking. The Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs in the North West has confirmed that 25 initiates have been rescued from an initiation school operating in Matlhonyane Village. The department says further investigation revealed that eight other initiates fled the school during the intervention and have not yet been located. Spokesperson for the…
Accident scene for illustrative purposes 1 minute Three children have died in a crash between a car and a bakkie on the N8 in Bloemfontein. Police Spokesperson Mahlomola Kareli says the car had five occupants, four children and a woman driver, while the bakkie only had the driver. Kareli says a 6-year-old boy and a…
