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The Mozambican Constitutional Council has declared FRELIMO's candidate, Daniel Chapo, as the winner of the disputed October elections.  Since then, the country has seen frequent protests by opposition groups who say the vote was rigged.  The confirmation of Chapo's win has raised fears of further protests. Opposition leader, Venancio Mondlane, has vowed to intensify the demonstrations. D...

Deputy President, Paul Mashatile, has described 2024 as an important year for South Africans as the country celebrated 30 years of democracy. Mashatile delivered the comments in his Christmas message to the nation. While marking 30 years of democracy this year, South Africans also headed to the polls which saw the ANC lose its majority for the first time since 1994.  Mashatile also highlighte...

The Department of Basic Education has served the Information Regulator with an appeal challenging its decision to prohibit the publication of the 2024 matric results in the media. The move comes after the Regulator issued an infringement notice in November, ordering the department to provide an undertaking that it would not publish the results. Information Regulator Chairperson Advocate Pansy Tlak...

Fleet Company Afrirent has suspended services to the City of Johannesburg due to an unpaid debt of over 90 million rand. The suspension affects more than 4,000 vehicles, including those used by the Johannesburg Metro Police Department and PikitUp. ActionSA in Johannesburg says the suspension affects public safety and Joburg Water services, sparking concerns about road safety and the water crisis d...

Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa says Eskom is making steady progress towards achieving a 70% energy availability factor (EAF) by 2025. The EAF is a crucial metric that assesses the performance of power stations and their ability to generate electricity efficiently. As the country approaches 300 days without load shedding, Ramokgopa expressed confidence in Eskom's capacity to meet electr...

The Mozambican Constitutional Court is set to proclaim the disputed 9 October general elections. The opposition presidential candidate Venâncio Mondlane has threatened "chaos" if the constitutional council confirms the initial election results. At least 130 people have been killed in two months of violence. Elvis Presslin spoke to Social and Political Activist, Women Observatory Director, Qu...

Over 16km of traffic can be observed on the Lebombo Border post towards the neighbouring Mozambique. This as today marks the last Friday before Christmas Day. Traffic volumes are expected to increase as road users make their way home to Mozambique through the border post between their country and Mozambique. For the past few months, the border post has been experiencing disruptions due to politica...

Deputy Minister of Transport Mkhuleko Hlengwa is today at the Grasmere Toll Plaza (South of Johannesburg) for the Transport department's festive season Road Safety Campaign. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to Deputy Minister of Transport, Mkhuleko Hlengwa for an update...

Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) says investigations into what caused a broken shaft which led to disruptions in the supply of jet fuel at O.R Tambo International Airport last week are still ongoing. This incident had prevented the pumping of jet fuel from storage tanks to the aprons, which enables the re-fuelling of aircrafts. This caused major disruptions to ACSA'S total network resulting in...

The Balobedu Royal Family is allegedly taking President Cyril Ramaphosa to court to challenge his decision to recognise Masalanabo Modjadji as Queen Modjadji  of the Balobedu royal nation. This follows the Presidency's announcement last Friday, stating that the government recognised the Balobedu queenship on 31 March 2016 under the Traditional Leadership and Governance Framework Act, making i...

The Eskom board laments a weak balance sheet, tariffs that do not reflect costs, lack of sustainability and corruption among key issues affecting the power utility's finances.

Limpopo police officer, Rachel Kutumela, is expected to resume her bail application in the Polokwane Magistrate's Court today. The 40-year old is accused of killing six people and collecting more than R10 million following a killing spree that started in 2019. Kutumela is expected to  appear with her co-accused and daughter, Flora Shokane and her sister, Anna Shokane. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to...

Spaza shop owners have welcomed government's decision to extend the registration period to the 28th of February next year. The 21day period  to register spazashop ended at 5pm yesterday. Spaza shop owners are still queuing at the Civic center in Jabulani in Soweto after the centre ran out of application forms yesterday. One of the spaza shop owners earlier caught up with our reporter Hasina G...

A KwaZulu-Natal man who confessed to killing his girlfriend in a social media post was found hanging from a tree on this morning. Hw was not far from where he apparently stabbed the woman to death. Police say the couple had a "domestic-related altercation which escalated to murder. KwaZulu-Natal police spokesperson Colonel Robert Netshiunda says police  responded to reports of a murder in the...

The Basic Education Laws Amendment (BELA) Act may take some time before it is implemented in schools. Experts say the regulations - that will guide the implementation of the Act - could take a while to be finalised. The Act was signed into law by President Cyril Ramaphosa in September, but some clauses were put on ice for three months for further consultation.  The government of national unit...

City of Johannesburg Mayor, Dada Morero says that residents of Gauteng will have water running in their taps before Christmas. He was briefing the media at the Johannesburg Water Water's reservoir and towers in Roodepoort, north of Johannesburg on the recovery of their Water systems. Residents have been without water since the long weekend following Rand Water's 86hr water maintenance programe. Ex...

The courtroom where former Johannesburg Mayor, Kabelo Gwamanda is expected to appear, is reportedly packed to capacity.  Gwamanda is expected before the Protea Magistrate's Court, in Soweto, on fraud charges after he allegedly defrauded Soweto residents in an alleged funeral policy scheme. Some of his alleged victims opened a case last year and Gwamanda handed himself over to the police on th...

At least 34 people have been killed by Cyclone Chido in Mozambique since it made landfall there. Mozambique has began a rebuilding and cleanup effort following the cyclone, which struck the south-western Indian Ocean over the weekend. Sakina Kamwendo Chief of Communication of UNICEF Mozambique, Guy Taylor

Authorities in Limpopo continue to monitor the traffic flow across major routes in the province. Sofar, no major or fatal road crashes have been reported.  Avhapfani Munyai reports. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to Road Traffic Management Corporation (RTMC) spokesperson Simon Zwane,

Frustrated spaza shop owners are queuing at municipal offices across the country in an attempt to register their businesses ahead of today's deadline which was set by President Cyril Ramaphosa. In Bloemfontein in the Free State, spaza shop owners say municpal officials have sent them back and forth many times on grounds that their documents are no complete. Meanwhile in Gqeberha in the Eastern Cap...

President Cyril Ramaphosa is delivering the keynote address to mark the National Day of Reconciliation today. This year's event will be held at a sportsground in Vredendal in the Matzikama Local Municipality in the Western Cape. The theme for the 2024 National Day of Reconciliation is Healing Historical Wounds and Forging New Futures. The National Day of Reconciliation is a public holiday in South...

Eastern Cape police have launched an investigation into the causes of two separate car accidents, which claimed the lives 17 people since. In the first incident 14 people were killed when two vehicles including a minibus taxi collided on the N9 route, outside Graaf Reinet. In the other incident a car and a van collided killing three people and injuring two others wounded on the R-61 near Bizana ye...

Passengers and small vehicles are being processed at the Lebombo border post between South Africa and Mozambique. Meanwhile, the processing of trucks at the border post in Komatipoort, Mpumalanga, remains suspended. This is due to safety concerns as post-elections unrest continues in some parts of Mozambique. Protesters in that country have reportedly been targeting these trucks to block the roads...

SACP leader, Solly Mapaila says the ANC has failed to treat its alliance partners with respect and equality. Mapaila is tabling the Political Report to the SACP Special National Congress underway at Birchwood Hotel and Conference Centre in Boksburg. Mapaila says the electoral decline of the ANC is worrying. The unfortunate part is that they never had an opportunity to discuss this with the ANC. Jo...

Over two-thousand branch members of the EFF have gathered at the University of Johannesburg's Soweto Campus in order to register for the party's third National People's Assembly. The conference will start tomorrow at the Nasrec Expo Centre with party leader Julius Malema's political report. Besides electing new leadership for the party, the delegates will discuss policy propositions in 12 commissi...