Spread This News By James Muonwa, Mashonaland West Correspondent A USER of popular short video sharing platform, Tik Tok, landed himself in soup after posting a clip in which a uniformed Chinhoyi police officer on duty, is jeered while hoisted in the air. David Kanduna (23), who starred on the ZBC TV drama series Kuchina-Genesis […]
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Five municipal ward by-elections will take place in Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga and Northern Cape on Wednesday, 1 June 2022. The twenty candidates from ten political parties and two independent candidates will contest the by-elections. In Gauteng: Ward 29 in the Rand West City Municipality – GT485 will be contested by Wanelisa Moche from the African […]
State power utility Eskom has entered into a memorandum of agreement (MoA) with the Mpumalanga Provincial Government to foster better relations between the two and allow for the implementation of Eskom related initiatives in the province. Eskom CEO, Andre de Ruyter, said the collaboration will allow the power utility to steady its operations in the […]
The Department of Water and Sanitation has reiterated its commitment to foster Africa-wide bilateral and trans-boundary relations in the water sector to enhance the provision of water in the country and on the African continent. The commitment comes in light of the annual commemoration of Africa Day on 25 May 2022. The Department said that […]
Public Works and Infrastructure Minister, Patricia de Lille, says recent flooding in the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal has highlighted the importance of building and maintaining public infrastructure with the mitigation of changing climate patterns in mind. The Minister was presenting the department’s budget for the 2022/23 financial year in the National Assembly on Tuesday afternoon. […]
eThekwini Municipality Mayor, Mxolisi Kaunda, has vowed that the municipality will do everything in its power to assist the families in searching for missing municipal employees. The two municipal employees went missing and presumed drowned following the heavy rains and flood over the weekend. The two men are believed to have been on duty over […]
eThekwini Municipality Mayor, Mxolisi Kaunda, has vowed that the municipality will do everything in its power to assist the families in searching for missing municipal employees. The two municipal employees went missing and presumed drowned following the heavy rains and flood over the weekend. The two men are believed to have been on duty over […]
Police Minister, Bheki Cele, says the fight against crime requires a healthy relationship between the police and the communities they serve. The Minister dedicated his Budget Vote speech on Tuesday to rebuilding and strengthening community relations in the fight against crime when he appeared before a mini-plenary of the National Assembly on Tuesday. “We are […]
Five suspects will on Wednesday appear before the Orkney Magistrate’s Court on charges of fraud, corruption and money laundering. The sixth suspect is under police guard at a hospital where he was arrested. Aged between 37 and 45, the six were arrested simultaneously in Johannesburg, Vryburg, Orkney and Klerksdorp on Tuesday for alleged fraud, corruption […]
South Africa has reported 4 227 new COVID-19 cases bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 935 761. This increase represents a 15.7% positivity rate. In a statement on Tuesday, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said there might be a backlog of COVID-19 mortality cases reported due to the ongoing audit […]
Two Gupta associates and a former Deputy Director General (DDG) of the Minerals and Energy Department (DMRE) have appeared in the Randburg Magistrate’s Court in a case related to the Gupta-owned Optimum Coal Mine. Former Tegeta Exploration and Resources Director, Ronica Ragavan; former trustee of Optimum Coal Mine, Pushpaveni Govender and former DMRE DDG, Joel […]
Employment and Labour Minister, Thulas Nxesi, says ever since its inception, the National Minimum Wage (NMW) has not, contrary to assertions, had any negative impact on employment. Nxesi said this when he tabled the department’s budget vote during a mini plenary of the National Assembly on Tuesday. “Contrary to the opposition’s belief that the introduction […]
Revamping government’s internet network, increasing the department’s internet capacity and roping in specialist network engineers from banks are some of the interventions that the Department of Home Affairs is implementing to deal with long queues caused by system downtime. Home Affairs Minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, said this when he led the debate on the department’s […]
President Cyril Ramaphosa has called on South Africans to exercise tolerance and to fight xenophobia in all its forms. This as the continent marks Africa Day on Wednesday, which is a commemoration of the 1963 founding of the African Union – known then as the Organisation of African Unity. “As we address the critical issue […]
The Department of Water and Sanitation has reiterated its commitment to foster Africa-wide bilateral and trans-boundary relations in the water sector to enhance the provision of the precious resource in the country and African continent. The commitment comes as South Africa commemorates Africa Day, along with the rest of the continent. The annual commemoration of […]
Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa, said, “Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair. […]
THE State is pushing to put businessman Ofer Sivan on trial after the completion of investigations by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission. Sivan is accused of conniving with his personal assistant Cassandra Myburg in forging signatures at the bank in a bid to defraud his business partners in a company called Adlecraft. The two are facing […]
South Africa can afford a much bigger public employment programme, argues top economist Former Treasury economist Andrew Donaldson has argued for a huge expansion of public jobs programmes to tackle unemployment. Donaldson, now at the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU) at the University of Cape Town, said on Tuesday that a balance […]