Police seen outside a mine shaft in Stilfontein where illegal miners remain underground. 2 minutes The continued delay in bringing out illegal miners from underground in Stilfontein’s Shaft 11 is causing grave concern among human rights activists, who warn that the death toll could rise. Since last month, eight bodies have been recovered from the…
Source: Reuters. Through product innovations, enhancements to its network and strategic partnerships, Mastercard will enable acquiring banks to process real-time card payments. For the first time, all merchants in South Africa who accept Mastercard payments will receive faster payouts, empowering businesses with better cashflow management and faster funds availability. This, in turn, provides merchants with…
Inside a court 2 minutes A 44-year-old Limpopo teacher is expected to appear before the Makhado Magistrate’s Court in Limpopo this morning on sexual assault charges involving two minors. The suspect appeared briefly in court on Tuesday after he was arrested last weekend. He is alleged to have lured the children to his house where…
A school building. 1 minute More than 1,600 learners are yet to be placed at Limpopo schools. The most affected areas are Polokwane, Mokopane, Tzaneen and Lephalale. The provincial education department says placements will be finalised by the end of this month. In a statement, the department says the Pietersburg circuit in Polokwane has the…
Lt General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi made the damning allegations during a media briefing in Durban. The KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner, Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, has made public WhatsApp conversations from seized cellphones that allegedly show a link between a member of a crime syndicate, an associate of the Police Minister, and Minister Senzo Mchunu himself. Mkhwanazi made the damning…
Minister Enoch Godongwana delivering the Budget Speech two years ago. 2 minutes Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana says the Democratic Alliance (DA) did not submit or present any proposals to him about the budget. Godongwana tabled the 2025 budget in the National Assembly on Wednesday, where he announced a 0.5 percentage point increase in VAT. This,…
SAPS briefing in Durban. President Cyril Ramaphosa has noted statements made earlier on Sunday in a media briefing by SAPS KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Commissioner Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi. The President says, “This is a matter of grave national security concern that is receiving the highest priority attention. It is vital that the integrity of the country’s…
[File photo] A man handcuffed. 2 minutes Gauteng police have arrested one of the prisoners who escaped from the Maputo Maximum Prison in Mozambique at a car hire dealership in Sandton, Johannesburg. The prisoner is one of more than one thousand five hundred prisoners who escaped during Mozambique’s unrest in December. The escapee was arrested…
ANC members at the Jan 8 Statement celebrations in Gauteng 2 minutes Thousands of African National Congress (ANC) members and supporters have gathered at the Alexandra Stadium in Gauteng for the provincial leg of the party’s January 8 Statement celebrations. The celebration follows a decision by the ANC to reconfigure leadership in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal…
Logo of an Apple store is seen as Apple Inc. in Washington, U.S. 2 minutes US tech giant Apple says it has suspended the purchase of minerals whose source can be traced to the Democratic Republic of Congo(DRC) following a criminal complaint filed against its subsidiaries in Europe by the central African country. Lawyers representing…
