South Africa’s Trade, Industry and Competition Minister Ebrahim Patel has tested positive for COVID-19. The Minister received his results on Saturday, 25 July 2020. This was the Minister’s second test since the outbreak of this virus. “Minister Patel is in good spirits and is in self-quarantine, and will continue to work from home. Those that […]

Two men have been arrested over the sale of cigarettes in the Northern Cape of South Africa, in contravention of the Disaster Management Act regulations. Meanwhile in Gauteng over 600 people were arrested over the weekend in a blitz on those breaking the #Covid19 regulations. Members of Springbok Public Order Police arrested the first male […]

LIMPOPO – The South African Police Service (SAPS) has arrested a suspect at Beitbridge Border Post, between South Africa and Zimbabwe, for smuggling explosives into SA. The 30-year-old man, who was driving a Funeral Undertaker’s vehicle, was apprehended yesterday (Sunday 27 July). The SAPS members who performed the arrest had been busy with their routine […]

Olympic gold medallist Sir Mo Farah will compete in the 10km Cape Town Marathon Virtual Race Run in the United Kingdom, scheduled for 18 October. The coronavirus pandemic led to the launch of the virtual event and while Cape Town Marathon participants may miss out on the spectacle, the virtual race promises to take all […]

A stunning scene – featuring a rare (and sadly endangered) humpback dolphin – has been captured by Love Africa photographer Casey Pratt, off the KwaZulu-Natal coast in South Africa. Watch below. Casey says: “A large pod of dolphins were swimming by (on Friday) and with the clean water and early morning light I knew it would […]

The Democratic Alliance (DA) says it condemns the third farm attack in a week in the South African province of Limpopo, an area usually more famous for being home to the Kruger National Park. The fatal attack – which took place on Friday 24 July 2020 at JJ Bekker Boerdery at Toitskraal outside Marble Hall […]

Under the District Six restitution project, 212 housing units, making up 954 homes, will be constructed at a cost of R325 million. Work on the final phases of the District Six restitution project has begun. The national Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development is having the ground cleared and rubble removal as mandated […]

The town of Hoedspruit is “on its knees”, say lodge owners, fearing that the enduring Lockdown regulations in South Africa could cripple not only the nation’s famous safari industry… but lead to rampant poaching of the country’s precious wildlife. Yesterday morning between 10am and noon, desperate residents – from private game reserve owners to restaurant […]

A South African gospel song has the world singing and dancing through a pandemic! ‘Jerusalema’ – by South African-born international star Master KG, and featuring multi-talented vocalist and Nomcebo Zikode – has been viewed over 48 million times on YouTube. The song was uploaded eight months ago and has been going viral ever since across […]

For months, train stations went silent as the national lockdown in South Africa forced millions of commuters to stay home, but on the railway tracks, opportunistic criminals went to work targeting state facilities that had been left non-operational. Looting on the Train Tracks In a special investigation produced by Nicky Troll, Carte Blanche goes deep […]

A debate on farm murders and attacks will take place in Parliament on a date still to be announced, a move that has been welcomed by the Democratic Alliance, which has been pressing for more action to be taken by a government it believes has been turning a blind eye to this decades-long problem. “It […]

The South African Police today used water canons to disperse peaceful protesters from the restaurant industry – one of Cape Town’s most vital sectors – outside parliament, a move condemned by the Democratic Alliance, which has accused President Cyril Rampahosa of “killing” thousands of restaurants and ruining people’s lives “for nothing.” In a statement, DA […]

On this week’s African Voices Changemakers, South Africans will get a chance to find out more about their very own Zozibini Tunzi, as CNN International’s Arit Okpo meets the reigning Miss Universe. Despite having her reign interrupted by the pandemic – at a time when Tunzi should have been travelling the world –  she says […]

Children born in other countries are entitled to South African citizenship as long as one parent is South African, the Constitutional Court has ruled. A seven-year legal battle is finally over and the court has ruled that the Department of Home Affairs must immediately recognise as citizens Yamika Chisuse, born in 1989 in Malawi; Martin […]

After voicing his strong opposition last night to the South African government’s decision to close schools for a month, DA Leader John Steenhuisen has taken the next step and says the Democratic Alliance will be approaching the courts “on the basis that this decision is politically rather than scientifically motivated & not in the best […]

The DA says it does not support the decision by President Cyril Ramaphosa to close schools in South Africa for four weeks. “President Ramaphosa has bent the knee to all-powerful teachers’ unions, in particular SADTU, who do not have the best interests of learners at heart,” said DA Leader John. “This is not leadership. President […]

Wayne Morgan, a plumber and electrician from Roodepoort, is a recent arrival at Angel Wings, a shelter in Benoni on Gauteng’s East Rand. He has lived at the shelter for two months. He lost his job when the company he worked for shut its doors at the start of lockdown. He stayed with family and […]

The #ServeUsPlease peaceful protest announced for Cape Town will now have national movements in several cities across the country today. The protests will be held simultaneously, from 10am to 12pm on Friday 24 July. In response to the South African government’s Covid-19 restrictions on the hospitality, tourism, food and alcohol, entertainment, media and affiliated industries, […]

President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed a proclamation authorising the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) to probe, in any State institution, allegations of corruption during or related to the COVID-19 national state of disaster. The President announced the signing of the proclamation during his address to the nation on Thursday evening, on developments in South Africa’s risk-adjusted […]

With South Africa entering the eye of the COVID-19 storm, President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced the closure of public schools for the next four weeks. Schools will close on Monday, 27 July and reopen on 24 August 2020. However, Grade 12 learners and educators will only take a one-week break and reopen on 3 August, […]

South African Springbok rugby player, Eben Etzebeth, has extended his contract with French Rugby Club Toulonnais for three more seasons. The delighted club announced on Thursday that since Etzebeth still has one year of his current two-year contract remaining, it now means that he’ll play for Toulon (which is in southern France) until June 2024. […]

Five people arrested at Kliprivier near Johannesburg may have links to the New Year’s Day attacks in Melville and Mary Fitzgerald Square, Johannesburg, which left three people dead, as well as to “extremist crimes” in other provinces. The New Year’s Day drive-by shootings in Melville, Johannesburg, left three people dead and five wounded. At the […]

Stellenbosch Wine Routes and at least 300 wineries in South Africa, together with Visit Stellenbosch, have thrown their weight behind a legal application asking evidence from the Ministry of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs to explain the reintroduction of a blanket ban on the domestic sale and transportation of alcohol. In an unprecedented show of […]

While action is being taken against officials in her department implicated in cases of corruption, more investigations have to be carried out into the R15 billion in irregular and wasteful expenditure uncovered by the auditor-general, according to Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation Minister Lindiwe Sisulu. Sisulu said today that the department had heeded parliament’s call […]

Health Minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize, says KwaZulu-Natal appears to be following the same trend of COVID-19 infections, as witnessed in the Western Cape, Eastern Cape and Gauteng provinces. Speaking during a virtual sitting of the National Assembly on Thursday, he said: “This is based on the average daily cases that we have been recording. We […]