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The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) is urging is residents along the Vaal River to remove valuable equipment, movable infrastructure and livestock, and evacuate to avoid damage or loss of life when the riverbanks overtop. The Department has opened a fifth sluice gate at the Vaal Dam in order to manage the rapidly increasing water levels due to heavy rainfall overnight in the catchment are...

Gauteng police have launched a manhunt for a group of gunmen who opened fire and killed three men, believed to be taxi marshals, in Mofolo Central, in Soweto. Johannesburg Metro Police and emergency services are currently at the scene of the shooting, where vehicles are being diverted away from the area. Motorists are advised to avoid using the junction of Machaba Drive and Mageza Street. Sakina K...

The Protea Magistrate's Court in Soweto has transferred the case against a man accused of raping and murdering a six-year-old girl, to the High Court in Johannesburg.  Twety-four-year-old Mozambican national,  Pethe Simiao was arrested last year and was charged with the kidnapping, rape, murder of the girl who disapppeared shortly before her remains were found. Simiao has also been charg...

A 36-year-old man is expected to appear before the Mahwelereng magistrate's court, in Limpopo, after he was arrested for allegedly raping his four-year-old niece. Limpopo police spokesperson, Stephen Thakeng, says the man allegedly raped his niece when the child's mother left her in his care at their home in Malepetleke village on Friday. SABC Reporter, Rendani Raliphaswa filed this report...&nbsp...

Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Ronald Lamola says the country is navigating the storm after United State's decision to impose a new 31% import tariff. The minister says the government is working tirelessly to secure favorable trade deals. by U.S. President Donald Trump that imposed 30% import tariffs on South African goods exported to the United States. Lamola says key sectors...

The University of KwaZulu-Natal, in partnership with the KZN Premier's Office, are briefing the media on the latest HIV cure research. Led by Professor Thumbi Ndungu, this groundbreaking trial Africa's first shows 20% of participants remain off antiretroviral therapy and are still virally suppressed after 18 months. The trial tested combination immunotherapy, boosting the immune system to control...

The application to disclose the investigation diary in the former National Assembly Speaker, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula corruption case has been dismissed. Presiding Judge Mokhine Mosopa said that Mapisa-Nqakula failed to prove her case in the Pretoria High Court. Mapisa-Nqakula's defense lawyers argued that the disclosure of section C of the docket could lead to her exoneration from the corruption c...

The Human Settlements minister, Thembi Simelane, says several system failures led to the collapsed building in George in May last year. The collapse, that took place during construction, caused 34 deaths and dozens of injuries. Briefing Parliament's Human Settlements committee on the report that followed an investigation, Simelane says an almost 300 page report details several lapses in the constr...

The News and Current Affairs Show, hosted by award-winning presenter Sakina Kamwendo, presents another weekly feature with Martin Creamer, the publishing editor of Engineering News & Mining Weekly.    

The uMkhonto we Sizwe Party has snatched from the African National Congress, ward 28 in KwaDukuza, in KwaZulu-Natal's iLembe District Municipality. The ward became vacant when Vishnugopal Govender resigned as ANC ward councilor, and contested the by-election as an MK Party candidate. He received 62 per cent of the votes. Candidates from the ANC, Inkatha Freedom Party, Economic Freedom Fighters and...

ActionSA caucus leader, Athol Trollip, says the party will not support the African National Congress if their input continues not to yield fruit. Speaking to members of the media, earlier today, Trollip emphasised that the party is resolute in its resistance of a VAT increase or tax bracket creep in the 2025 budget. This after the National Assembly's adoption of the  Fiscal Framework yesterda...

The Eastern Cape High Court, sitting in Gqeberha, has found Nigerian televangelist, Timothy Omotoso and his co-accused, not guilty on all charges against them. The court dismissed the state's case against Omotoso, Lusanda Sulani and Zikiswa Sitho, following a trial spanning over 8 years. The accused faced 32 charges including rape, human trafficking and racketeering, after Omotoso was arrested at...

Eleven people, eight of who are employees of the South African Social Security Agency, are expected to apply for bail in the Lenasia Magistrate's Court, in Johannesburg. The accused were arrested after being implicated in a 260-million-rand fraud syndicate operating within the social security. The state alleges that the accused created fake profiles and used these to withdraw funds from SASSA pay...

U.S President Donald Trump is expected to impose sweeping new reciprocal tariffs on global trading partners TODAY, upending decades of rules-based trade, risking cost increases and likely drawing retaliation from all sides. Details of Trump's "Liberation Day" tariff plans were still being formulated and closely held ahead of a White House Rose Garden announcement ceremony scheduled for later today...

Parliament's Standing Committee on Finance has adopted its report on the fiscal framework that was tabled in Parliament by the Finance minister, Enoch Godongwana, earlier this month. The budget includes a zero-point-five percentage point VAT increase over the next two financial years. The committee adopted the report with recommendations proposed by ActionSA - which includes that Treasury must be...

Sakina Kamwendo is in conversation with Eastern Cape MEC for Public Works, Siphokazi Lusithi; Executive Head of Audit at the National Auditor General, Bongi Mngoma; Western Cape MEC for Public Works and Founder and CEO of Innate Investment Solutions, Lynette Ntuli as the Department of Public Works hosts its  inaugural Public Works and Infrastructure event

Civil society organisation, Section 27 says it's is closely monitoring whether the Limpopo Department of Education will meet its own today's deadline to eradicate and replace all pit. In March 2023, the national department missed its deadline to eradicate pit toilets, and repeatedly extended it. Minister Siviwe Gwarube announced earlier this month that nearly the entire backlog had been cleared. B...

UMkhonto weSizwe Party Youth Leader, Bonginkosi Kkhanyile is leading the 'Where Is My Vote' March from Tshwane to Alexander township. He alleges that MK party votes were stolen during the recent elections which ultimately led to the formation of the Government of National Unity. Khanyile alleges the elections were rigged as he believes the DA cannot macth the number of the MK party in electoral su...

Over one-hundred people, including activists and students marched across Johannesburg yesterday calling for justice for a 7-year-old girl raped at her Eastern Cape school. The learner was allegedly molested at the school in Matatiele in October last year, whilst waiting for her transport back home. The perpetrator is yet to be arrested. Lerato Makola has more and Bongiwe Zwane spoke to spokesperso...

A 58-year-old teacher is expected to appear before a Limpopo court today after he handed himself over to the Sebayeng police station for allegedly raping a 13-year-old learner. The man was charged after the school's principal allegedly caught him sexually assaulting a the grade seven learner at the school last week. Bongiwe Zwane spoke to SABC reporter, Michael Makungo

The Democratic Alliance held its Federal Executive Committee meeting late last night ahead of the deadline for the budget to be passed on Wednesday. The party is a loggerheads with the ANC, its main partner in the GNU which it charges with sidelining it by refusing to consider proposals for a "growth-lead" budget. It is also refusing to concede to a proposed 0.5 percent VAT increase arguing that t...

The latest Household Affordability Index by the Pietermaritzburg Economic Justice & Dignity Group has painted a grim picture of the cost of basic food items in South Africa. The index found that the average cost of South Africa's Household Food Basket increased by 0.3% in March, from R5 313,22 in February 2025. Consumers continue to buckle under the country's high cost of living, despite a dec...

The Portfolio Committee on Mineral and Petroleum Resources has raised concern about the insufficient strategic fuel reserves available to provide uninterrupted service in cases of emergency. The committee conducted a two-day oversight visit to the Strategic Fuel Fund (SFF) in Saldanha on Tuesday to ensure that the SFF has sufficient petroleum reserves to keep the supply uninterrupted during a cris...

The Department of International Relations and Cooperation has urged young unemployed South Africans to check with DIRCO before accepting job offers overseas, especially if the offers are too good to be true. This comes after twenty-three South Africans who accepted call centre and hospitality jobs in Thailand but were trafficked to Myanmar and forced to scam people online while living under "slave...

The Sudanese army shelled parts of Khartoum's twin city of Omdurman from early morning on Thursday, after declaring victory over their Rapid Support Forces rivals in a two-year battle for the capital. The army ousted the RSF from its last footholds in Khartoum on Wednesday but the paramilitary RSF holds some areas in Omdurman, directly across the Nile River, and has consolidated in West Sudan, spl...