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The Economic Freedom fighters are currently addressing members of the media from the Winnie Madikizela Mandela House in Johannesburg shortly. The party met over the weekend to discuss a number of issues. Party leader, Julius Malema has called on South Africans to join the party in their numbers ahead of the million mark targeted in December...

Stellenbosch University in the Wstern Cape says an investigation is underway after the video of a white student urinating on items in a black student's room went viral on social media at the weekend. It is alleged that the incident took place at the Huise Maria residence while the first year AgriSciences student, Babalo Ndwayana was sleeping. The incident has sparked outrage as the white student i...

Eskom management has painted a bleak outlook for the risk of loadshedding this week warning that the country may be placed on rotational STAGE FOUR. The power Utility's management briefed members of the media in yet yet another session about the crumbling state of the national grid. This is after the power utility lost over 17 thousand megawatts of generating capacity due to breakdown. Eskom COO,...

This week on Update From The Coal-Face,  publishing editor of Engineering News and Mining Weekly Martin Creamer looks at South Africa's first hydrogen corridor now under development will generate a minimum of 14 000 jobs a year, the Mining Indaba heard this week, President Ramaphosa this week expressed huge delight on being able to drive in the massive world-first hydrogen dump truck, built f...

The South African Farmers Development Association has refuted claims that the country is facing a severe sugar shortage. This follows reports in the media that cited the inability by local manufacturers to meet the demand. The sector is under pressure after it lost over R223-million due to cane damage following excessive rain and flooding in KwaZulu-Natal. South African Farmers Development Associa...

There has bee mixed reactions to the Pretoria High Court judgement that was handed down on Wednesday which declared part of the Divorce Act as being inconsistent with the constitution. This has set up major changes for how divorces are handled when couples are married out of community of property. According to Natasha Truyens, senior associate and family law attorney at Barnard Incorporated Attorn...

The South African Youth Council of the Western Cape has called for a joint operations between the police and the Home Affairs department in order trace, verify and deport illegal immigrants who are found to be on the wrong side of the law. This follows public outcries on social media platforms as video and audio clips of a young Grade 9 learner from Delft is heard explaining how she and other mino...

The Alleged parliament arsonist Zandile Mafe is expected to appear at the Cape Town magistrates court today following the January torching of the national Parliament. The state alleges that he broke into parliament with intent to commit terrorism and theft. He's also facing charges of arson and other additional charges of terrorism. The state had asked for a six week postponement at the last appea...

The KwaDukuza Magistrates Court has postponed the matter of a 45-year-old Ballito mother who allegedly killed her 4-year-old daughter. The accused mother who has been detained at the uMhlali police cells has now been sent to the Westville prison. It is alleged that the woman - who may not be identified in terms of an order by the court - tied the girl's hands and drowned her in a bucket of water l...

 Protesting residents at Musina in Limpopo have barricaded the N1 road between Musina town and the Beit Bridge border post over lack of water. They have barricaded the road with burning tyres, rocks and dustbins to prevent movement of motorists. Residents say they have not been getting water for almost two weeks. Some residents say they want the Musina local municipality to  provider wat...

Sri Lankans have criticised a Wednesday night speech by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in which he ignored calls to resign and vowed to restore order. In his first national address since protests began last month, he offered to cede some of the presidency's power to parliament, but set no timetable. Sri Lankans who have been calling for him to resign over an unprecedented economic crisis. Our corres...

South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) has urged beneficiaries who usually use the South African Post Office to collect their social relief grant to consider approaching an ATM or a supermarket this month. This follows an announcement by the Post Office that it will no longer be paying the three-hundred and fifty grants through its branches. The Post Office had indicated that it intends on c...

Eskom CEO, Andre de Ruyter, has apologised to the public for the recent rolling blackouts - saying top management are working towards resolving the issues faced by the power utility. Eskom has announced that Stage 2 power cuts will resume from five o'clock until 10 o'clock this evening. Eskom COO Jan Oberholzer explains further...

Advocate Busisiwe's Mkhwebane's days as the head of the Public Protector's office may be numbered. This as parliament's Section 194 committee sits this afternoon in order to consider her fitness to hold office. Mkhwebane was dealt a huge blow following the Constitutional Court's dismissal of her rescission application on Friday last week. The application related to the separation of powers involvi...

The Department of Public Enterprises and National Treasury have presented a united front at Scopa on the sale of South African Airways. This follows an earlier report by National Treasury Director General Dondo Mogajane to Scopa that his department had not been part of the process. They were briefing the committee on the process so far to appoint a strategic equity partner for the airline. We spok...

President Cyril Ramaphosa says mining remains a big contributors to the economy and jobs in South Africa, and currently contributes half a million jobs. Meanwhile, as the African Mining Indaba continues, gangs are stealing copper from cables deep underground, disrupting the mining industry's operations. To discuss this further we're now joined on the line by the head of investor relations at Siban...

Eastern Cape premier Oscar Mabuyane has retained his position as the ANC provincial chairperson after beating his rival Babalo Madikizela. Mabuyane secured 812 votes against Madikizela's 662. Mlungisi Mvoko has been elected  the party's deputy chairperson and Lulama Ngcukayitobi the secretary-general. Earlier Sakina Kamwendo spoke to both our politics reporter Ntebo Mokobo and political analy...

DA leader, John Steenhuisen says the party will continue to fight for ways of mitigating the effects of the war in Ukraine on South Africans. Steenhuisen says the Western Cape will look at ways of bolstering the local production of wheat and canola in the province in the face of global shortages. South Africa has seen a sharp rise in grain and fuel prices after Russia's invasion of the European co...

 The three suspects in the murder case of 28-year-old Hillary Gardee have abandoned their bail application in the Nelspruit Magistrate's Court in Mpumalanga. They will be back in court on the ninth of next month. The suspects are facing charges including kidnapping, rape, murder, firearms and ammunitions, defeating the ends of justice and conspiracy to commit murder. One of the suspects is sa...

Western Cape Premier Alan Winde says only 61 percent of the province's population has been counted in this year's Census, with just eight days to go before the extended closing date. Winde is warning that an under count of residents will severely undermine the provision of services such as health-care and education in the province. Winde is appealing to residents to make use of the extended Census...

ONE South Africa Movement leader, Mmusi Maimane is currently leading a community march in the Siyathemba local municipality in Prieska in the Northern Cape province. This as the movement and its local affiliates, call for the African National Congress to stop what they call the hijacking of power from the people though the back door. Among the marchers is the Siyathemba Commuity Movement which too...

In this week's edition of the Update From The Coal-Face, publishing editor of Engineering News and Mining Weekly, Martin Creamer tells Udo Carelse about the World Coal Association, headed by South Africa's July Ndlovu, expressing its full support for a 'just energy transition' to a clean energy future, Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula saying South Africa must continue to phase out coal in a caref...

The case against Economic Freedom Fighters leaders, Julius Malema and co-accused Dr Mbuyiseni Ndlozi has been postponed to 3 June 2022 by the Randburg Magistrates Court. Malema and Ndlozi are charged with assaulting a police officer Lt-Col Johannes Jacobus Venter at Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's funeral in the year 2018. The two have pleaded not guilty to the assault charge which they claim is part...

Western Cape High Court Judge President John Hlophe's application to review and set aside the decision of the Judicial Service Commission for his impeachment by parliament has been dismissed  by the South Gauteng High Court. This comes after the Judicial Services Commission resolved last August, by a majority of eight members against four, to endorse the decision of the Judicial Conduct Tribu...

Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane is expected to lay criminal charges against self-described legal commentator, Ismail Abramjee and what she calls his 'accomplices', at the Brooklyn police station in Pretoria. The charges relate to the text message Abramjee sent to the lead senior counsel for the Speaker of the National Assembly and the chair of the Section 194 Committee. They are both parties i...