Mpumalanga Premier Mandla Ndlovu. Opposition parties in the Mpumalanga government are demanding that Premier Mandla Ndlovu release the progress report of investigations into the laptop scandal in the education department. Premier Ndlovu missed the deadline he had set himself to release the progress report on the suspension of the HOD, Lucy Moyane. Moyane was suspended…
Government officials visiting the Verulam building collapse site. The sister of the owner of the temple in Verulam, near Durban who died when the building collapsed on Friday, says they are devastated. The official death toll has risen to five after another body was retrieved from the rubble on Sunday morning. The Premier of KwaZulu-Natal…
Two rhinos 1 minute The MEC for Economic Development, Environment, Conservation, and Tourism (DEDECT) in the North West Province, Bitsa Lenkopane has condemned the recent poaching of two white rhinos at Botsalano Nature Reserve over the Christmas holidays. It is reported that the rhinos had been legally dehorned by departmental conservation personnel to deter poaching….
A City of Johannesburg ambulance shown on the picture above. A paramedic who responded to the Reiger Park mass shooting in Ekurhuleni has described the scene that confronted him as horrific. Six people, including three women, were shot dead and three others were left injured after suspects driving in two vehicles started shooting randomly on…
A pregnant person. KwaZulu-Natal Premier Thami Ntuli has launched a multisectoral teenage pregnancy prevention strategy in the Ugu district. Between April and December 2024, over 26,000 teenagers got pregnant in the province, with more than 1,200 girls being 14 years old and younger. Twenty-five-year-old Sbahle Chiliza says she fell pregnant as a teenager. “When I…
Cervical cancer ribbon. 2 minutes A Stellenbosch University professor has released research findings exploring options for the secondary prevention of cervical cancer in South Africa. Cervical cancer is said to be the number one cause of cancer deaths in South African women, despite advances in early detection and prevention. According to the World Health Organisation…
Police Minister Senzo Mchunu. Security expert, Kholofelo Rakubu says the testimony of embattled Police Minister Senzo Mchunu at the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry was a very strategic attempt to try and justify the disbandment of the Political Killings Task Team (PKTT). Mchunu, who appeared before the commission on Tuesday, made mention of a 2019 feasibility…
Johannesburg Executive Mayor Dada Morero Johannesburg Executive Mayor Dada Morero says there are signs of improved service delivery under his leadership, despite rising political pressure against him. Morero is facing a motion of no confidence in the City Council brought by minority party Al Jama-ah, with the support of other minority parties. The parties have since written to ANC…
Voters at an IEC voting station Residents of Ward 13 in Seshego in Polokwane are still voting in a by-election to elect a new ward councilor. This is the first by-election in which the South African Communist Party is running independently from the ANC. The position became vacant after an EFF councillor was expelled for…
Microlight crash in sugarcane field 1 minute A pilot has survived a microlight crash, south of the Groutville Airfield, north of Durban. In a statement, IPSS Medical Rescue says they responded after receiving reports from passing motorists who had witnessed the crash this morning. Emergency response teams searched the sugarcane fields before locating the pilot….
