Category: News

The commission of inquiry into the Usindiso building fire is finalising its inspections of inner-city buildings and has unearthed the dire living conditions of many occupants. The week-long inspections targeted abandoned and hijacked buildings in Hillbrow, Berea and surrounding areas. Officials abandoning and claiming they were hijacked During the last inspection in Vrededorp yesterday, property… Read more

While police intensify said their crime-fighting operations with hundreds of arrests every weekend, these don’t always lead to a successful prosecution or a decrease in crime, says an expert. Tshwane district police spokesperson Johan van Dyk said in response to a noticeable increase in crime in the western corridor of Tshwane, acting district commissioner Samuel… Read more

Former president Jacob Zuma and his uMkhonto weSizwe party (MK) recently launched an urgent court application trying to stop the SABC from referring to the seventh administration as a government of national unity (GNU), but experts have described the move as a publicity stunt. Yesterday, the party filed court papers in the High Court in… Read more

The biggest ANC region in Limpopo, Norman Mashabane, has submitted an election road map to the Limpopo ANC to hold its elective regional conference before the end of September. The region’s term of office lapsed in June and it is now ready to elect new leadership to help with service delivery. Preferred candidate to make… Read more

Nico de Jager, DA’s Gauteng spokesperson for cooperative governance and traditional Affairs (Cogta) has blamed the city’s administration for Johannesburg’s electricity woes. This follows Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse’s (Outa) Wayne Duvenage making damning allegations about City Power’s refusal to accept help from Outa, which could have assisted in their fight against vandalism and theft to… Read more

A Gauteng young graduate’s life is in limbo as the department of home affairs reportedly rejects her application for an identity document (ID). Sibongile Mwase, 24, a public relations graduate from Katlehong in Ekurhuleni, claimed that the struggle to convince the department to consider her application started a long time ago, when she was 15… Read more

In today’s news, correctional services has responded to a video of an inmate boasting about his free food, electricity, education and the use of a cellphone, disgraced former lawyer Rudolph Lubbe has been arrested after going on the run for former high jump world champion Jacques Freitag’s murder, and Emfuleni Local Municipality supply chain manager… Read more

The community of Marite in Bushbuckridge is at the mercy of hardened criminals who have been terrorising the area and not sparing even a school in the area. Parents of scholars at Halimela High School believe the high crime is the reason the department of education was intending to close the school. However, the department… Read more

South Africa’s political landscape shifted with the 2024 government of national unity (GNU) aiming to unite the nation amid past divisions. The coalition government, including the ANC and DA, is focusing on economic recovery, anticorruption measures, alleviation of poverty, national cohesion, transparency and accountability. However, the Cape Independence movement continues to advocate for the Western… Read more

Judging by the thoughts expressed on our pages today by Dr Joan Swart, advocates of Cape “independence” are salivating at the prospect that the government of national unity (GNU) may self-destruct. Swart, chief of staff of the Referendum Party, argues that “if the GNU falters, Cape Independence will surge in relevance, reigniting the support of… Read more