A brazen ‘Rolex’ robbery took place yesterday at a Turkish restaurant in Sunninghill Village shopping centre, in Sandton, Johannesburg. In a video which has gone viral in South Africa, at least two suspects can be seen, pointing their guns at a table of six diners. One suspect, dressed in dark clothes, can be seen jumping […]

A family man was shot and sustained serious injuries in an attempted robbery at The Village restaurant in Hazelwood in Pretoria, South Africa, around midday on Sunday 18 October 2020. Update (Sun 25 Oct): Pretoria man, Wayne Giles, shot for his cellphone, wakes up!  Two suspects allegedly tried to rob the victim, Wayne Gary Giles, […]

PRETORIA – The Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (HAWKS) has arrested four former senior state officials on Thursday morning for alleged tender irregularities committed at the Gauteng Department of Health (GDoH), in 2007, Haws announced in a statement today. The long-drawn-out case by the Hawks’ Serious Corruption Investigation emanates from February 2007, when the State […]

Five people were arrested early today for the execution-style killing of two women in Polokwane ten days ago, including the husband of one of them, who had apparently tried to commit suicide. Makoena Mabusela-Leshabane, 46, and Tebogo Mphuti, 35, were shot while sitting in a car in Polokwane on 10 October. Reports at the time […]

The cumulative number of detected COVID-19 cases is now 708 359, with 85 more COVID-19 related deaths reported. In the last 24 hours, 2 055 new cases were reported. Of the 85 deaths reported, eight occurred in the past 48 hours. The 85 deaths bring the national COVID-19 death toll to 18 741. “We extend […]

South African student Talia Smith, who is currently studying at New York University (NYU) in the USA, has won GOLD in the prestigious 2020 Student Academy Awards for her poignant short film ‘Umama’, based a true life account of her ‘domestic worker’. Talia received the news of her incredible achievement from none other than legendary […]

Transnet said today it had implemented containment measures to limit the extent of the crude oil spillage which occurred on 19 October in the Bellair area of Durban, into the Umbilo River and the harbour, due to an attempted theft incident on a crude oil pipeline. There have been more than 80 fuel theft incidents […]

The DA in the Free State, South Africa, has requested that the Premier declare the fire-swept areas a State of Disaster, in order to facilitate the allocation of vital resources. The veld fires this week ravaged about 100,000 hectares around and between the towns of Dealesville, Boshoff, Hertzogville, Hoopstad and Bultfontein… destroying livestock, game, grazing, […]

Farmers, farmworkers and their families have been left heartbroken in the Hertzogville area in the Free State, South Africa, where huge fires have destroyed fields and killed several hundred animals. The fire was possibly started by the flames of burning tyres lit by service protesters. SA Agri Initiative (Saai), an organisation that represents the interests […]

Thirty-one students from Fort Hare University’s East London campus in South Africa have tested positive for COVID-19, apparently following a night out partying… similar to the recent ‘super-spreader’ incident in Cape Town where 89 tested Covid-19 positive following a gathering, which included several matric students, at the Tin Roof in Claremont. According to a joint […]

The constantly cash-strapped and facing bankruptcy South African Broadcasting Corporation now wants people to pay TV license fees not only if you don’t watch their television programmes but also even if you watch streaming services like Netflix on your laptop. In a presentation to the parliamentary portfolio committee for communications, the deputy minister of communications […]

The 200-year-old SA Astronomical Observatory, with its headquarters in the Cape Town suburb of Observatory, has been unveiled as a national heritage site. The facility was the first in the Southern Hemisphere. With a history dating back to 1820, this is a “living site”, with more than 200 years of prominence in the international astronomical […]

The Malawian pastor Shepherd Bushiri and his wife Mary were two of four suspects who have been arrested for their alleged involvement in fraud and money laundering worth R102 million. It was reported late today that Mary Bushiri was arrested first and then her husband, after trying to evade the Hawks, handed himself in to […]

In a bid to integrate public transport across the three main cities and other areas of Gauteng, a new transport body has been launched that will aim to make it possible to move easily between various modes of transport – bus, train, Gautrain, taxi – in the near future. The cities of Johannesburg, Tshwane and […]

The DA Abroad UK and SA People invite you to the UK briefing and Q&A on the State of Home Affairs and what is happening with Passports and Document applications from South African Consulates in Foreign countries. Thousands of South Africans have been affected by inexcusable delays in getting passports and other documents, some in […]

The inclusion of Germany on the latest “red list” of high-risk countries not allowed into South Africa – except business travellers and those staying longer than three months – has caught many by surprise. “Attention, attention! South Africa put Germany this afternoon on the list of COVID-19 high risk countries, most probably with immediate effect,” […]

The new blue commuter train that will hopefully be standard on local commuter tracks made its first appearance in Cape Town today. “The Future is Here,” the Passenger Railway Agency of South African tweeted. “For the next 6 months the team will be hard at work to ensure that PRASA-WC receive RSR’s approval to operate […]

The government today revised the list of high-risk countries still forbidden from entering South Africa, and even though there are only 22 on the list they include (with the exception of business people and people travelling to South Africa for over three months) the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany and Netherlands. UPDATE 11 November […]

ANC Chief Whip Honourable Pemmy Majodina was informed last evening, Sunday 18 October 2020 that South Africa’s Minister of Health, Dr Zwelini Mkhize (Khabazela) and his spouse, Dr May Mkhize have both tested positive for Covid-19. Minister Zwelini Mkhize is in self–quarantine as a precautionary measure whilst his wife Dr May Mkhize has been admitted […]

The countdown to the Miss South Africa pageant has begun and all indications are that it will be an amazing show to remember. Miss South Africa 2020 will be crowned at The Table Bay hotel in an entertainment-packed event on Saturday, October 24, from 17h00. The show will be televised live – across the continent […]

South Africa’s Minister of Health, Dr Zweli Mkhize and his wife, Dr May Mkhize, have both tested positive for COVID-19. The couple did their COVID19 tests on Saturday after the Minister started showing mild symptoms. “I was feeling abnormally exhausted and as the day progressed, I started losing my appetite. My wife had a cough, […]

I am sick and tired of social media and irresponsible, inaccurate journalism so it was to this end that I decided that we would go to Senekal 16 October 2020 to see with our own eyes, and hear with our own ears… says Brad Nathanson Investigations. Amid all of the propaganda on social media spewed […]

When Nelson Mapande’s job prospects dried up during Lockdown in South Africa, he didn’t let it dampen his spirits. Instead he decided to learn a new skill… and now his beautiful creations are earning him a living, and lighting up the homes and hearts of Capetonians. It was less than four months ago when Nelson […]

Waylon Hamman from Maclear in the Eastern Cape has a clear message for the corrupt officials stealing money in South Africa: Stop It! Here’s his message for President Cyril Ramaphosa to speed up the cleaning up of corruption in SA. Watch the video below in Xhosa, kindly translated by Bongi Lolwana into English here: “Hello […]

Another suspect has been arrested in South Africa in connection with the violent protests which took place at Senekal’s Magistrate’s Court last week when two suspects appeared for the first time in connection with the murder of farm manager Brendin Horner. Protesters stormed the court holding cells, and a police vehicle was overturned and set […]