A man types on a computer keyboard. 2 minutes The South African Reserve Bank and the Bank for International Settlements has launched the TechSprint initiative under South Africa’s G20 Presidency and the BIS Innovation Hub. The initiative, which is in its sixth year, focuses on finding technological solutions that are scalable, while enhancing trust and…
Zanzou nightclub in Pretoria. 1 minute A 41-year-old man arrested in connection with an assault incident at the Zanzou nightclub in Hatfield, Pretoria, is expected to appear in the local Magistrate’s Court today. The arrest follows the circulation of a graphic video showing young men being sexually violated at the nightclub. Johannesburg Metro Police officers…
3 minutes The South African Department of Forestry, Fisheries, and the Environment has expressed deep concern over a potential avian influenza outbreak affecting endangered seabirds nesting off the coast. As the management authority for the Prince Edward Islands, the department has developed a protocol for managing avian influenza in seabirds, in collaboration with Western Cape…
Bronkhorstspruit Magistrate’s Court 2 minutes Diamond dealer Louis Liebenberg‘s wife Desiree has been denied bail by the Bronkhorstspruit Magistrate’s Court in Pretoria. The case relates to an alleged investment scam in which investors were allegedly swindled out of more than four billion rand. Investors were allegedly duped into investing into Liebenberg’s companies. Liebenberg was removed…
Construction work, earth moving machine 2 minutes Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Dean Macpherson has committed to ensuring that companies involved in corruption who abandon government projects unfinished will face the full might of the law. He says government loses billions, as in the case of the Sarah Baartman Centre of Remembrance in Hankey, Eastern…
Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi delivers the State of the Province Address in Pretoria. 3 minutes Political analyst Dr Dale McKinley says Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi’s State of the Province Address (SOPA) lacked the required interventions to address the challenges facing the province. He says the challenges include crime. McKinley says the province should not have…
National Police Commissioner Gen. Fannie Masemola 1 minute Police have made almost 4 000 arrests for rape and attempted rape since October last year. This is according to National Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola. 3 983 arrests were made for the crimes from October last year to the 31st of last month. Masemola says police remain…
South Africa’s Garrick Higgo 1 minute South Africa’s Garrick Higgo is back in the winner’s circle on the PGA Tour. The 25-year-old left-hander from Stellenbosch won the Corales Puntacana Championship in the Dominican Republic, courtesy of a final round of even par 72 and American Joel Dahmen’s late meltdown. Higgo finished on 274, 14-under-par, one-stroke…
Springboks in a match 3 minutes The South African national rugby side is on track for an undefeated tour of the Northern Hemisphere for the first time since 2013, if they can get past Wales at the Principality stadium in Cardiff on Saturday. The Boks are up against a Welsh team that is in full…
Mangaung Correctional Centre. 1 minute The family of Mpho Mkhumbeni, who was an inmate at the G4S-run Mangaung Correctional Centre in Bloemfontein, is still demanding answers. He died at the facility last month, after an alleged assault by prison employees. The family was initially told that Mkhumbeni had died from an asthma attack. But an…
