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The Tourism Business Council of South Africa (TBCSA) is calling on the eThekwini Municipality and marketing bodies in KwaZulu-Natal to make more money available to market Durban as an attractive tourist destination. This comes after the COVID-19 pandemic, the July 2021 unrest and the recent devastating floods dealt a severe blow to the city's economy. Today marks the final day of the Indaba which...

The ANC elective conference of the Eastern Cape is set to continue this weekend as planned despite last minute glitches. The provincial Task Team of the party met virtually yesterday with the national executive committee of the ANC in order to discuss amongst other issues the state of readiness of the much anticipated conference. This raised eyebrows that another postponement may be imminent as th...

The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse has continued its call for government to extent the validity of driver's licence cards from five to 10 years. This as today marks the deadline for motorists to renew their expired driving licence cards. The deadline applies to all driving licences, temporary driving permits and professional driving permit and learner's licences which expired between March 2020 an...

The ANC in the Eastern Cape has written to its mother body at Luthuli House in Johannesburg requesting an urgent virtual meeting over the state of readiness for the upcoming provincial elective conference, among other issues. The party's provincial task team coordinator, Lulama Ngcukaitobi has tabled several issues that need an urgent attention of the the ANC's NEC ahead of the weekend's conferenc...

The office of the Auditor General has informed Parliament's Standing Committee on Public Accounts that it informed the Road Accident Fund that the standard of auditing at the entity is not yet recognised, but RAF went ahead and used it anyway. The AG has told SCOPA that this has resulted in litigation where RAF is disputing the disclaimer opinion it has received. The office was briefing the commit...

Public Works and Infrastructure Minister, Patricia De Lille is expected to visit parts of KwaZulu-Natal tomorrow in order to make available land parcels for the resettlement of those most affected by the recent floods in the province. The visit forms part of government's efforts to assist the thounsands of people that have been displaced after their houses were damaged or destroyed during the floo...

EFF leader Julius Malema has told members of the media that a manhunt continuing for the killers of the daughter of the party's former secretary general. Hillary Gardee, the 28-year-old daughter of Godrich Gardee was found dead on Tuesday after she was abducted in Mbombela last Friday. Malema and other senior party leaders including his deputy Floyd Shivambu and the party's former Chairperson Dali...

NPO, Missing Children South Africa says it roughly records between 60 and 90 missing people cases per month. This comes as police in Bishop Lavis in Cape Town are searching for a two-month-old baby who was snatched from her pram at a retail store. In another case, the daughter of the former Economic Freedom Fighters secretary-general Godrich Gardee has also been reported missing. It is understood...

 ANC veteran Dr Snuki Zikalala has also weighed into the booing of President Cyril Ramaphosa at the weekend by calling for those involved in the organisation of the event to account. President Ramaphosa had to be escorted  out of the Royal Bafokeng stadium on Sunday during May Day Commemorations in the North West. Political commentators have since described the organisation of the event...

Political analyst and lecturer at the Nelson Mandela University, Dr Ntsikelelo Breakfast says the upcoming policy conference of the ANC is going to be a political battleground between Presdient Ramaphosa's faction and that which opposes him. He goes on to argue that the deep rooted problem within the ANC is that it has both hardliners or radicals and reformists. For more on this, he joined Jon Ger...

 The ANC in the Eastern Cape has called on Police Minister, Bheki Cele to send a special team of investigators as more and more members are gunned down in the province. This comes as a police search is underway for suspects linked to the murder of two ANC members in the Nelson Mandela Bay region of the Eastern Cape. The 45-year-old ward councillor Andile Andries and 41-year-old branch secreta...

EFF has confirmed that Hillary Gardee - the daughter of former EFF Secretary General, Attorney Godrich Gardee - has died. In a statement, the EFF says the body of the 28-year-old student was found outside Mbombela in Mpumalanga after she had gone missing on Friday. She was last seen shopping at a plaza in Mbombela. Gardee was with a three-year-old girl when she went missing, but the child was late...

Speculation is rife that President Cyril Ramaphosa is fast losing the trust of some within the tripartite alliance. Political Analysts say this could change drastically, if he prioritises the needs of the working class in South Africa. This comes after he was booed off stage at Cosatu's main May Day celebration at the Royal Bafokeng Stadium in the North West province on Sunday. Some workers disrup...

 Ekurhuleni Emergency Services staff woke up today to make a gruesome discovery of four bodies including that of an infant when they extinguished a fire at the Marathon Informal Settlement in Germiston, east of Johannesburg. The children - aged nine, seven and two - as well as a forty-three year-old woman, were found burned beyond recognition. Several families have been displaced after their...

 The long-awaited Africa's Travel Indaba has gotten underway at the Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre in Durban. The gathering expects to attract over four-thousand delegates from 35 countries, after taking a 2-year-long break due the Covid-19 pandemic. Being one of the top three global trade shows, Africa's Travel Indaba aims to facilitate and provide access to tourism content a...

The Department of Home Affairs is currently responding to the draft public participation report on the Electoral Amendment Bill. This comes after Parliament asked the Constitutional Court for a six month extension to finalise the bill. The Bill seeks to make provision for independent candidates to participate in provincial and national elections.  In June 2020, the Concourt ruled in favour of...

This week on the Coalface, publishing editor of Engineering News and Mining Weekly, Martin Creamer talks to Sakina Kamwendo about a new South African diamond mine expected to be developed in Limpopo province, Wimbledon opting for platinum to mark the Queen's jubilee and the centenary its centre court and greater hydrogen fuel cell adoption poised boost for South Africa's platinum group metals sect...

The defense lawyer in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial, Advocate Malesela Teffo has been granted R10 000 bail by the Hillbrow Magistrate's Court in Johannesburg. Teffo is facing contempt of court charges after he failed to appear in court in January 2022. He was detained yesterday following proceedings at the High Court in  Pretoria on an arrest warrant relating to an alleged trespassing inciden...

The South African Social Services Agency has moved to assure approved applicants of the R350 Social Relief of Distress grant that payments will be made within the next week. This, after a number of beneficiaries expressed concern that they have not received the subsidy for the month of April. The applicants say they have been waiting for the R350 from SASSA since the beginning of the month. Sakina...

A  Limpopo has been released on R1000 bail by the  Lephalale magistrate's court after he shot and wounded a 38-year-old woman who he alleges he mistook for a  hippopotamus. The accused, Hendrick van Wyk has been charged with attempted murder after he allegedly shot and wounded the victim, Lenah Lefowane, who was fishing at the with her husband, Piet. Van Wyk will be back in court ag...

After 28 years of freedom millions of people in Limpopo are still without decent housing. A  44-year old woman from Vhurivhuri village outside Thohoyandou is still living without a decent house and sanitation facility. Livhuwani Negondeni and her three children have been living in a clay rondavel house for the past two years. She applied for an RDP house in 2005 but till today she's still wai...

Blind people in South Africa have raised concerns over the Copyright Act of 1978, saying it is discriminatory and limits their right to freedom of expression and information. They say that the act makes it difficult for visually impaired people to convert books into accessible formats such as Braille or audio. Last year the High Court in Pretoria declared the act unconstitutional and invalid. And...

The damages caused by the devastating floods in KwaZulu-Natal have left some communities without water since the floods two weeks ago. A manager in charge of deploying water tankers to affected areas was shot dead at the weekend by two unknown suspects in a red car at the Ottawa Water Depot. Yesterday, the situation worsened when Isipingo Hills residents expecting water were left without when the...

Former Kenyan president, Mwai Kibaki, who served as Kenya's president from 2003 to 2013, has died at the age of 90. We speak to our correspondent in Kenya Sarah Kimani   

The mayor of the City of Johannesburg, Mpho Phalatse, has announced measures to accelerate the delivery of basic services to improve the lives of the residents of city. This includes the building of new clinics, upgrading of informal settlements, and the construction of new housing units. She was delivering her inaugural speech as a multi-party government of the city. Meanwhile, the City of Tshwan...