Vehicles during a traffic jam. 1 minute The Bakwena Toll Route management says it has put in additional measures to enhance road safety this Easter. The route includes the N1, which runs north from Tshwane to Bela-Bela, and the N4, stretching westwards from Tshwane through Rustenburg and Zeerust, up to the Botswana border. Spokesperson Charmaine…
FILE PHOTO: A shopper looks for goods during an electricity load-shedding blackout in Johannesburg, South Africa. 1 minute Some energy analysts believe President Cyril Ramaphosa is likely to announce government’s plans to mitigate load shedding when he delivers the State of the Nation Address (SONA) this evening. Eskom implemented stage three load shedding last Friday…
Police seen at Shaft 11 in Stilfontein, North West. 1 minute The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has decided to intensify its probe into the abandoned Buffelsfontein mine in Stilfontein in the North West province. The commission has escalated its current investigation on Stilfontein’s Operation Vala Umgodi into a national inquiry. This follows the…
[File image] Three people have been shot dead and two others wounded during a shooting in Gugulethu on the Cape Flats. Western Cape Police Spokesperson Andrè Traut says they responded to the incident in Moletsane Street, New Crossroads, last night. He says the victims’ bodies were found inside a bedroom. Traut says the two other…
Yesterday’s, Wednesday, 9 October, Loeries Mayor’s Bunch was a hive of activity, and the anticipation of the next few days of Awards was palatable. We asked some of the international jury presidents, jury members and creatives what they were looking forward to this Loeries.
1 minute The pre-trial hearing of three accused in the February 2020 theft at President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Phala Phala farm is expected to start today in the Modimolle Regional Court in Limpopo. Immanuela David, Floriana Joseph and Ndilinasho Joseph allegedly broke into Ramaphosa’s farm and stole over $580 000 stuffed in a sofa. Accused number one,…
[File photo] 2 minutes The Polokwane Special Commercial Crimes Court in Limpopo has heard that former African National Congress (ANC) Treasurer in Limpopo, Danny Msiza used his political power to influence municipalities to invest in the now defunct VBS mutual bank. A key witness in the looting of the bank was testifying anonymously in the…
FILE: Human rights activist, Dr. Tshenuwani Farisani. 1 minute President Cyril Ramaphosa will deliver the eulogy at the funeral service of African National Congress (ANC) politician Dean Farisani at the University of Venda in Limpopo, Saturday morning. Farisani, who was a dean at the Lutheran Church, died in hospital last week after a long illness….
Barry Bateman is the spokesperson for Afriforum Private Prosecution Unit 2 minutes Civil society organisation AfriForum says that it accepts the apology from Police Minister Senzo Mchunu, after receiving a letter from him apologising for erroneously naming the Principal of Bergview College in Matatiele as a suspect in the rape of a 7-year-old girl at the school….
Free State Premier MaQueen Letsoha-Mathae and Deputy Police Minister, Cassel Mathale at the funeral service of Constable Keamogetswe Buys 2 minutes Free State Premier MaQueen Letsoha-Mathae says she hopes the assistance of the Provincial Government helped ease the pain of the three police constables’ bereaved families. The bodies of the constables were retrieved from the…
