Attendees seen at an initiation school. The Tsomo Magistrates’ Court in the Eastern Cape has sentenced a 30-year-old traditional nurse to a two-year jail term for assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm on an initiate. Siyasanga Sifumba was arrested in December 2024 for assaulting an 18-year-old initiate with a wooden stick and also…
File image of crime Scene tape. An unknown partially decomposed body of a man has been retrieved from a river in Palm Ridge on Gauteng’s East Rand. City of Ekurhuleni’s Disaster and Emergency Management Services(DEMS) says they received a call about the sighting of a body and went out to investigate. Spokesperson William Ntladi says…
Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen. Agriculture Minister, John Steenhuisen, says the looming export tariff hike by the United States on South Africa shows the country needs urgent reforms. US President, Donald Trump, announced a 30% tariff on South African exports to the US effective from August 1. Economic experts react to the 30% tariff imposed by…
[FILE IMAGE] Kgoshikgolo Thulare Victor Thulare III passed away from a COVID-19 related illness at the age of 40. The Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein in the Free State has referred back to the High Court in Polokwane, Limpopo, the battle for the Bapedi kingship. The late king Victor Thulare the third’s mother, queen…
Eastern Cape Judge President Selby Mbenenge appears at the Judicial Conduct Tribunal. WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Eastern Cape Judge President Selby Mbenenge has denied the allegation that he sent a picture of his private parts to complainant, Andiswa Mengo. The tribunal previously heard from Mengo that she received an image of private parts allegedly from the…
Infrastructure damaged caused by floods. Eastern Cape Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) MEC Zolile Williams says the disaster relief funding by the national government is not enough to cater for all the damages and losses caused by last month’s floods. The province will receive R504 million from national government’s R1,2 billion disaster recovery grant…
File Image: A man walks past the International Monetary Fund (IMF) logo. The International Monetary Fund says debt vulnerability in sub-Saharan Africa is mounting due to high global uncertainty, tighter global financial conditions and rising borrowing costs. However, it says the region is tackling this issue head-on and public debt ratios have stabilized on average….
Vehicles with containers at Durban port President Cyril Ramaphosa has acknowledged President Donald Trump’s letter imposing a 30% tariff on South African exports to the US, citing trade imbalances and market restrictions. U.S. President Trump has posted this letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa in which he explains that South Africa will be charged a tariff…
SA drivers’ licence The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) has urged the Department of Transport to extend the validity period of driving licences to 10 years instead of the proposed eight years. This comes after the department confirmed plans to extend the validity period from five years to eight years, to address the administrative backlogs…
FILE | Initiates from Ga-Mothapo in Limpopo line up for their ceremony after completing their time at an initiation school on 14 July 2024. A 19-year-old initiate has died in the Sekhukhune District in Limpopo. According to the Limpopo Cooperative Governance, Human Settlements and Traditional Affairs Department, the epileptic initiate was taken to Philadelphia Hospital…
