Former President Kgalema Motlanthe speaking at an event South Africa will continue to engage with the United States of America. This amidst global anxiety about US President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs that will take effect on August 1. Former President Kgalema Motlanthe’s foundation hosted a seminar looking at how Pretoria should navigate the new order….
A firefighter is seen on a scene of a blaze. The N2 road west of Gqeberha has been reopened after the authorities in the Nelson Mandela Municipality in the Eastern Cape contained a fire in the area. The cause of the fire that started on Monday is yet to be established. Municipal spokesperson Sithembiso Soyaya…
Qatari rally driver, Nasser Al-Attiyah Qatar’s Nasser Al-Attiyah won the Dakar Rally for the sixth time in the car category on Saturday as Argentina’s Luciano Benavides won by two seconds on two wheels, the narrowest margin ever. Al-Attiyah, with Belgian co-driver Fabian Lurquin, had led overnight after taking his 50th career stage win and made…
The Democratic Alliance (DA) MP, Glynnis Breytenbach addresses the media at Parliament in Cape Town on June 6, 2025. 2 minutes Democratic Alliance (DA) MP Glynnis Breytenbach says establishing an anti-corruption unit would be an effective way of boosting prosecutions following the National Prosecuting Authority’s (NPA) loss of high-profile court cases. The cases include the…
Former President Jacob Zuma 2 minutes Judge Nkosinathi Chili is expected to hand down his ruling on Thursday in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on the appeal application by former President Jacob Zuma of his earlier dismissal of Zuma’s application for the recusal of the lead prosecutor in his arms deal corruption trial. Zuma and the…
Transport Minister, Barbara Creecy at the 365 Days Arrive Alive Road Safety Campaign launch Transport Minister, Barbara Creecy says her department is commited to reducing road fatalities. The minister says the country is working on halving the statistics of nine thousand road fatalities seen this year by 2030. Creecy was speaking at the launch of…
UNAIDS Executive Director, Winnie Byanyima. 2 minutes UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima has described the United States of America’s decision to freeze funding for the US Agency for International Development (USAID) as shocking. The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (Pepfar) funded projects in South Africa have received waiver letters in which they’ve been asked to…
SANPC stakeholders 2 minutes The Central Energy Fund (CEF) has handed over leased assets and R5 billion in funding to operationalize the newly established South African National Petroleum Company (SANPC). Three of the CEF Group subsidiaries including iGas, the Strategic Fuel Fund and PetroSA have been merged to form the SANPC in a process which…
In this File photo Kraaifontein residents march from Bloekombos and Wallacedene to Kraaifontein to hand over a list of complaints over their living situation. Chairperson of Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Police, Ian Cameron, has expressed concerns over the upsurge of mass shootings in the Western Cape. Cameron confirmed another shooting victim’s body was found in…
COPE delegates The Congress of the People (COPE) says it’s determined to stabilise the party’s leadership ahead of the upcoming 2026 local government elections. COPE’s acting General Secretary Eric Mohlapamaswi reveals that the party’s Congress National Committee (CNC) has adopted a resolution to postpone the party’s National Elective Congress to April next year. The decision was taken during the…
