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Police have launched an instigation into an incident in which five leaners died after allegedly consuming suspected poison food. Disgruntled community members in Naledi, Soweto have closed down foreign spaza shops following the shocking deaths of five children aged under ten years in the area. It is alleged that the children ate snacks bought from a local spaza shop over the weekend. Otlotleng Msi...

Workers and former workers at the Limpopo government-owned entity, Great North Transport, are expected to stage a sit-in at the company's offices over their lost pension funds. More than 300 workers say they have not received their pension payouts, after the cop0many's management allegedly used the funds for daily operations and neglected to contribute towards their pension fund scheme. Sakina Kam...

The Deputy Minister of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, Mmapaseka Letsike, has called on all stakeholders to work together to fight crime in the country. She  was delivering a message of support at the memorial service of 18 victims who were killed in Lusikisiki, in the Eastern Cape. Fifteen of the victims are women. Three suspects have been arrested in connection with other crimes and...

Today marks exactly a year after the attack on Israel by Hamas and other armed groups. The attack killed over a 1-thousand Isrealis and sparked an onslaught that has so far claimed more than 40-thousand Palestinian lives. Our reporter Khayelihle Khumalo is covered the commemoration by the Jewish community in South Africa 

Trade union Cosatu, its members and some workers are today embarking on national wide march in support of the labour federation's call for more employment opportunities for citizens, decent work, action on  the crippling economy in the country and a mortarium on retrenchments among other grievances.  Business Unity South Africa says it's concerned about the strike and has some reservations about t...

The uMkhonto weSizwe Party has called off a planned picket outside the venue where the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) is holding a series of interviews to fill over 50 vacancies at various courts in South Africa. Today's interviews have begun as the commission seeks to fill three vacancies in the Supreme Court of Appeal, after the commission received a green light to proceed following the Gaute...

Union federation, Cosatu is calling on workers to come out in their numbers on Monday, 7 October and join the National Day of Action against the crippling economic crisis in the country. Cosatu says the staggering unemployment rate in the country are worrying. Cosatu says about 11.3 million people need jobs in the country, and this includes people who have given up looking for work. The union is d...

The Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg is today hearing the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) political party's bid to interdict the upcoming October leg of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) sitting which is expected to begin on  Monday the 7th of October. This comes after the Western Cape High Court ruling which suspended MK Party JSC candidate John Hlophe from participating in the proceedings. Hlophe is...

The Gauteng High Court sitting in Palm Ridge has sentenced Ekurhuleni serial rapist,  Nkosinathi Phakathi to 42 life sentences for rape offences he committed between 2012 and 2021. Phakathi was also slapped with 791 years for rape, kidnapping, theft, assault and compelling minors to witness a sexual act. Phakathi committed his brutal acts in the Ekurhuleni area between 2012 and 2021. He preyed mos...

The South African Policing Union says public sector unions are resolute on getting what is due to them from negotiations at the Public Service Co-Ordinating Bargaining Council. The latest wage talks have resulted in the introduction of a facilitator in the form of the CCMA or the Commission for Conciliation Mediation and Arbitration. Unions argue that the employer has not made an offer to employee...

The National Consumer Commission is urging all South African consumers who purchased Top Score instant porridge, to stop consuming the product and immediately return it to their retailer for a full refund. The commission has announced a recall of the product after three children, aged between one and four year, died allegedly after consuming it in Mdantsane, in the Eastern Cape province. A fourth...

The Pretoria high court has declared sections of the Sexual Offences Act unconstitutional. on Monday, the court removed the ability of persons accused of sexual violence to rely on a subjective belief that consent was given by a complainant. The accused person will now have to ensure that consent was given even though the victim might not have physically or loudly expressed it. The ruling comes af...

The South Africa Wind Energy Association says millions of South African households are already receiving wind energy via Eskom. The Association is holding the 13th annual Windaba in Cape Town looking at a holistic view of wind energy in the global renewable energy value chain. However, the industry says it has infrastructure challenges. FBongiwe Zwane spoke to Nivesh Govender, CEO of the South Afr...

The Israeli military say regular infantry and armoured units were joining its ground operations in Lebanon, stepping up pressure on Hezbollah, as it prepared to retaliate against Iranian missile strikes. Already battling Hamas in Gaza, Israel is beefing up its presence in south Lebanon in its conflict with Hezbollah a day after it was attacked by Iran, raising fears the oil-producing Middle East c...

A Mpumalanga businesswoman is accusing the police in KaNyamazane outside the City of Mbombela of failing to arrest men who demanded a protection fee from her. The businesswoman - Sweetness Shabangu - says the men came to the site of her recycling business and demanded that she pays them to continue with her business. Shabangu says she refused to pay the fee and a few days later her business site w...

The main water supply to Gauteng and Free State, is to be cut off for six months. The governments of South Africa and Lesotho have officially commenced the six-month maintenance shutdown of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) tunnel. The Lesotho Highlands Water Project  is a critical infrastructure that supplies water to South Africa and generates hydropower for Lesotho. To talk more on thi...

A total number of 81 foreign nationals have been arrested during the Labour Department's Blitz joint inspection and compliance raids currently taking place across the country. The sting operations, carried out together with the Department of Home Affairs, the Bargaining Councils, as well as Law Enforcement Agencies, are intended to enforce Labour Laws such as the Immigration Act, and Collective Ag...

The South African Weather Service says the snowfalls currently affecting parts of KwaZulu-Natal, the Free State and the Eastern Cape provinces, are not rare occurrences at this time of the year. The snowfall experienced late last month wreaked havoc in parts of the country, killing one person and causing massive traffic jams due to the closure of major highways. Bongiwe Zwane spoke to SABC reporte...

Eastern Cape Premier, Oscar Mabuyane together with Police Minister, Senzo Mchunu and MEC for Community Safety in the Eastern Cape, Xolile Nqatha are today visiting the families of eighteen people killed at Ngobozana Village, in Lusikisiki over the weekend. Among the deceased were fifteen women, while a two month old baby was among the survivors. The youngest of the deceased is a 14-year-old boy an...

The battle for the Vhavenda kingship has resumed in the Limpopo High Court, in Polokwane. Today's proceedings are focused on the role of the king in selecting candle wife, a wife married by the nation to the king to bear a successor. The throne became vacant after princess Masindi Mphephu successfully challenged her uncle Toni Mphephu-Ramabulana in the Constitutional Court. Princess Masindi Mpheph...

Chairperson of Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Police, Ian Cameron, has condemned in the strongest terms the gruesome killing of 18 people in two shooting incidents in Nyathi Village, Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape . The incident occured  late Friday night. The victims are believed to be relatives and neighbours. He says The South African Police Service (SAPS) must mobilise all necessary resou...

The process of determining whether Pietermaritzburg - the second largest city in KZN- is yet to be finalized.  This is according to the Municipal Demarcation Board following an application for Pietermaritzburg - which falls under the Msunduzi Municipality and Richmond Municipality to be amalgamated.  To date, the Demarcation board had received thousands of applications for the re-determination of...

Gauteng Economic Development MEC, Lebogang Maile, says the provincial government has paid three-point-eight billion rand in its first instalment to service the debt owed to roads agency, SANRAL for the construction of the now defunct, E-tolls. Speaking to members of the media in Johannesburg earlier this morning, Maile said Gauteng was is expected to fork out 30 per cent of the debt, with the rema...

The Western Cape High Court has granted an urgent interdict in favour of the DA to stop the designation of MK Parliamentary leader Dr, John Hlophe to serve on the Judicial Service Commission. The High Court made the ruling today in a virtual sitting. This after the DA launched the urgent interdict application about three weeks ago. Bongiwe Zwane spoke to SA reporter, Bulelani Phillip

The South African Weather Service says light snow can be expected over the Drakensberg this coming weekend. The expected snowfall will follow a similar trend, starting in the Western Cape early on Sunday morning spreading eastward towards KwaZulu-Natal by Monday morning. The snowfall is expected to clear up in the Western Cape and western parts of the Eastern Cape by Monday evening however it will...