FILE | Plane that has landed at an airport A chartered flight carrying Palestinians seeking refugee status in South Africa has landed at Johannesburg’s O.R Tambo Airport. Gift of the Givers facilitated the humanitarian effort with other civil society partners and will provide further assistance, legal and medical care. The Border Management Authority acted in…
Mourners gather at the memorial service of the Soshanguve mass shooting victims. 2 minutes The death toll in the brutal killings at the Marry Me Informal settlement in Soshanguve in Gauteng has risen to seven. A seventh community patroller has died of his injuries in hospital. Residents in the informal settlement are calling for the…
Shops damaged by a major storm in Mkhondo in Mpumalanga. 1 minute A severe thunderstorm has caused significant damage to municipal offices, schools, and businesses in Mkhondo, Mpumalanga. The storm has also disrupted electricity supply in the area and numerous trees were uprooted. Mkhondo Municipality spokesperson Howard Vilakazi says that disaster management teams are currently…
President Cyril Ramaphosa delivers his SONA 2025 speech. 2 minutes ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba has poured cold water on President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address (SONA). Mashaba says Ramaphosa is out of touch with the realities faced by millions of South Africans. Ramaphosa delivered his State of the Nation Address on Thursday evening…
Mangaung Executive Mayor Gregory Nthatisi. The Mangaung Executive Mayor, Gregory Nthatisi has reshuffled his Mayoral Committee in an effort to strengthen his executive. In a media briefing held in Bloemfontein, Nthatisi said the changes are made in terms of Section 60 of the Municipal Structures Act. Among the key changes, Deputy Mayor Lulama Titi-Odili now…
Two former State Security Agency employees will be back in the Specialised Commercial Crimes Court in Pretoria on January 26, 2026. Former project manager Patrick Mshothola and former Deputy Director for Counterintelligence, Thulani Dlomo, appeared in court on Monday and they were granted bail of R20 000 each. Mshothola and Dlomo were arrested on Sunday…
TikTok icon on a cellphone 2 minutes TikTok plans to shut its app for US users from Sunday, when a federal ban on the social media app could come into effect, unless the Supreme Court moves to block it, sources familiar with the matter said. The outcome of the shutdown would be different from that…
2 minutes The Gas Economy Leadership team at SA Oil and Gas Alliance (SAOGA) says Eskom needs to address its old coal-fired power plants that constantly cause blackouts in the country. Power utility, Eskom is implementing Stage 3 load shedding. The rolling blackouts started at 2pm on Friday and is expected to last until Monday…
CoGTA Minister Velenkosini Hlabisa Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Velenkosi Hlabisa says consultations are under way with the Electoral Commission on choosing the date for the 2026 local government elections. The current term will expire on the 1st of November 2026. Politicians would become Father Xmas if elections held in Jan:Hlabisa Hlabisa says the elections must therefore be held between 2 November 2026 and 30 January 2027. He says…
Court gavel. The Free State High Court has sentenced a 58-year-old Welkom lawyer to three life sentences for raping five minor children. In 2019, two of the victims, who are the lawyer’s stepdaughters, disclosed the abuse to their mother. Investigations revealed that the abuse began in 2007, when the youngest victim was seven, and continued…
