1 minute A 27-year-old man accused of the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl will hear his fate when he appears in the High Court in the Northern Cape on Tuesday. The accused, Itumeleng Machabe, has been in custody since his arrest in 2022. It’s over two years since the girl disappeared from her…
1 minute Transport Minister Barbara Creecy says additional policing will be deployed on critical routes across the country to ensure road safety during the upcoming Easter holidays. Creecy officially launched the 2025 Easter Road Safety Campaign in Pretoria. The campaign seeks to prioritize and promote safer road use during this high-traffic period. She says routes…
[FILE IMAGE]: Community members watch as Senzo Mchunu, South African police minister, inspects outside the mineshaft where it is estimated that hundreds of illegal miners are believed to be hiding underground, after police cut off food and water as part of police operations against illegal miners, in Stilfontein, South Africa, November 15, 2024. 1 minute…
Empty benches in court. A 40-year-old man from Botshabelo in Free the State is set to appear in the Bloemfontein Magistrates’ Court later today for fraud, extortion, and defeating the course of justice. The suspect is alleged to have made telephone calls to business owners in Botshabelo, Thaba-Nchu, and Bloemfontein alerting them about planned robberies…
Eskom electricity infrastructure. 1 minute Eskom says it currently has sufficient electricity capacity to sustain the grid during the upcoming winter months. Eskom Group Chief Executive Dan Marokane says that despite the recent implementation of load shedding, the power utility is now in a strong position and is well prepared for the increased demand for…
[FILE IMAGE]: DA Federal Council Chairperson Helen Zille is attending the two-day provincial council in Kimberly. 2 minutes DA Federal Council Chairperson, Helen Zille, says that if it were up to her, she would appoint Tony Leon as the new South African Ambassador to the United States. This follows the expulsion of Ebrahim Rasool last…
Over 40 000 Netizens were already waiting in the lobby when the Gauteng Education Department opened its online applications portal for the 2026 academic year for Grade 1 and Grade 8. Education MEC Matome Chiloane officially launched the platform just after 8 o’clock this morning. Chiloane was at one of the 81 walk-in centres in…
[FILE IMAGE]: A man stands behind bars. A man who hacked his partner and stepson to death with an axe in Britstown in the Northern Cape, has been sentenced to two life terms. The Britstown Regional Court sentenced 46-year-old Nathan Olifant for the murders of Patricia Olifant and his stepson, Romanio Welkom, in June 2023….
The Johannesburg City Council is without a speaker after Nobuhle Mthembu was axed from her position through an Al-Jamah sponsored motion of no confidence. The speaker has been accused of being biased and failing to maintain the integrity of the council. Some parties in the council maintained that the Action SA councilor has been compromised…
Minister of International Relations (DIRCO) Ronald Lamola. Minister of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) Ronald Lamola says although South Africa does not have diplomatic relations with Taiwan, it has maintained trade relations with it. South Africa officially ended its diplomatic relations with Taiwan in 1997. The department says the plan to relocate the Taiwan Liaison…
