A panel discussion at the Loeries Creative Week in Cape Town unpacked the motivations and effects of Dove’s groundbreaking generative AI tool designed to promote diversity and challenge narrow beauty standards. The initiative, known as Dove’s Real Beauty Generation, aims to redefine beauty standards in digital content creation and inject authenticity into AI-generated images, tackling…
A crime scene were a shooting happen cordoned off. 1 minute Three men believed to be taxi marshals have been killed in a shooting incident along Mahalefele Road and Nape Avenue in Mofolo Central, Soweto. Johannesburg Metro Police and emergency services are currently at the scene of the shooting. Spokesperson Xolani Fihla says vehicles are…
Minister Enoch Godongwana delivering the 2024 Budget Speech in Parliament. 2 minutes The Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) says there are alternative revenue streams that Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana can tap into if the proposed VAT increase is shut down. The Executive Director of the Parliamentary Budget Office, Dr Dumisani Djantjies, says Parliament must also push…
Police pounce on illegal miners in the Northern Cape in the Namakwa District. 2 minutes Police in the Northern Cape have arrested five undocumented immigrants allegedly found in possession of unpolished diamonds on the R355 en route to Port Nolloth, in the Namakwa District. Police arrested the suspects after intercepting their bakkie, which was allegedly transporting illegal miners from Nuttabooi. Provincial…
The late Deputy Chief Whip in Parliament, Khethamabala Petros “KP” Sithole. 1 minute The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) has confirmed what it calls the assassination of its Deputy Chief Whip in Parliament, Khethamabala Petros “KP” Sithole, who was gunned down in Katlehong on Gauteng’s East Rand on Saturday evening. In a statement, the IFP expressed…
Deputy President Paul Mashatile. 2 minutes The Activists and Citizens Forum has labelled the alleged attempted assassination of Deputy President Paul Mashatile as a fabricated story. Reports emerged over the weekend that the Deputy President’s vehicle was shot at four times on the windscreen. The forum argues that if the alleged incident did happen, the African…
Shaft 11 of a disused mine at Stilfontein. 3 minutes Only 12 bodies of illegal mine workers, who had died in abandoned mines in Stilfontein in North West, have been positively identified by their families. Seventy-eight bodies were brought to the surface in a combined effort by the community and a government led retrieval operation….
Andrew Mehlape appears in the Mankweng Magistrate’s Court, March 17, 2025. 1 minute The case against a man who allegedly killed his stepdaughter has been postponed to next Monday at the Mankweng Magistrate’s Court, outside Polokwane in Limpopo. Forty-eight-year-old Andrew Mehlape allegedly stabbed to death 14-year-old Rebotile Moloto on Friday morning while she was walking…
EFF Leader Julius Malema 1 minute The Constitutional Court has refused AfriForum’s bid for leave to appeal the “Kill the boer” judgment, which found that the chant did not constitute Hate Speech. After the apex considered the application, it concluded that the application should be dismissed as it bears no reasonable prospects of success. In…
Eulogy by the Minister of Police, Mr Senzo Mchunu, at the Official Funeral of Constable Boipelo Senoge on 8 May 2025, Bloemfontein. 2 minutes Police Minister Senzo Mchunu has appealed to South African Police Service (SAPS) members not to leave the service, despite the challenges they face in the line of duty. Mchunu made the…
