A police van is pictured at a mine in Stilfontein where illegal miners are underground in this image captured on 25 November 2024. 2 minutes A community leader in Stilfontein in the North West, Thembile Botman, says he’s optimistic that a number of organisations will today start to donate emergency aid to take to the illegal miners that are in a mine…
US President Donald Trump 2 minutes The Department of International Relations and Co-operation (DIRCO) says it’s willing to engage with the administration of US President-elect Donald Trump if given an opportunity. This after Trump posted on social media a warning to BRICS nations that he would require commitments that they would not create a new…
Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa shake hands during a handover ceremony of SA’s G20 Presidency at the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil on 19 November 2024. 1 minute President Cyril Ramaphosa will launch South Africa’s Presidency of the G20 at Parliament this morning. Brazil’s…
A woman buying bread at a shop. 2 minutes With over one thousand non-compliant spaza shops, factories and warehouses being forced to shut their doors, the City of Tshwane seeks to strengthen its approach to this crisis by approving a draft informal trading and township economy bylaw for public consultation. It is less than two…
Banyana Banyana players during training. 4 minutes Banyana Banyana keeper, Andile Dlamini says the absence of a professional league will continue to expose South Africa’s soft under-belly in international football. An under-strength Banyana were beaten 3- by Jamaica in an international friendly in Montego Bay on Saturday morning. And Jamaica is ranked just eight places…
A gavel in the courtroom. 1 minute The Verulam Regional Court north of Durban has sentenced two men to a term of life imprisonment for each of the three counts of rape they committed in 2023 in Ndwedwe, KwaZulu-Natal. In a statement, the National Prosecuting Authority says that the complainant and her friends were at…
[FILE IMAGE]: A fighter during training. 3 minutes Junior middleweight boxer Roarke Knapp will begin his road to redemption at Emperors Palace in Kempton Park on Friday night. The popular boxer will head the “Rivalry Reloaded” bill against the tough Adones Cabalquinto of the Philippines. The former undisputed world heavyweight champion, Lennox Lewis, will be…
Around 50 000 workers have indicated that they will protest and picket against recent retrenchments in the banking sector 2 minutes Parliament’s Trade, Industry and Competition Committee wants commercial banks to appear before it early next year, to iron out various issues. That is according to the Chairperson of the Committee, Mzwandile Masina. He spoke…
People working on a farm. 2 minutes Land reform and Rural Development Minister Mzwanele Nhyontso says the majority of land beneficiaries are women. Nhyontso was speaking during the Commemoration of 30 years of the Restitution of the Land Rights Act at the Freedom Park Heritage site in Pretoria today. According to the Land Claims Commission,…
3 minutes Some staff members of the Free State ANC caucus in the legislature have taken the party to the CCMA for failure to pay salaries. They have also approached the labour department to get the party to commit to making payments of the outstanding Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) benefits. Employees are accusing the ANC…
