Rhodes University says it is not yet in a position to comment on the death of a 19-year-old student in a drowning incident at West Beach, Port Alfred, last weekend. The young woman was swept out to sea by a rip current while swimming with…
Bribery, collusion between examiners, fee dumping and eye-test corruption took centre stage in an investigation of Gauteng driver’s licence testing centres (DLTCs). The 2021 investigation, commissioned by the premier’s office, was…
Ndlambe Tigers, newly approved by the Eastern Cape Province Rugby Union, hosted a well-oiled Old Collegians Rugby Club at Station Hill Sport Field in must-watch matches last weekend. The visitors’ second team defeated Ndlambe Tigers…
The Supreme Court of Appeal has lambasted a KwaZulu-Natal judge for taking four years to deliver a judgment involving a civil claim for damages emanating from a strike. In the ruling, penned by acting judge Glenn Goosen (with four judges…
Jobless people in the country’s most impoverished province join the growing social grant queues before dawn on empty stomachs, having run out of food for the month. In Mthatha, scores of people wait near the post office in a long queue on…
A charge of pointing a firearm has been dropped against a woman who drew a weapon during an EFF protest outside a Clicks store at a shopping centre in Port Elizabeth. Diane Attwell, 52, got involved in a verbal altercation during the…
A school which was shut down for illegally operating last year, mushroomed in a different location two weeks ago. Gauteng education MEC Panyaza Lesufi made the revelation on Thursday. This is as he and law enforcement officials closed…
The man who tricked KwaZulu-Natal petrol attendant Sphamadla ‘Wiseman’ Ndabezitha, into putting the wrong amount of petrol into his car and then making fun of him on video, said it was a practical joke, and he meant no harm. Phakamani…
A local student who used her birthday as a fundraiser was able to raise R20,000 to feed 100 hungry families in Nemato. A final year student at 43 Air School, Precious Sibalo’s birthday was on August 7, but she decided to forgo a birthday…
An eight-year-old South African girl stands to lose out on an R8m life-changing overseas inheritance because the department of home affairs has refused to comply with a court order to amend her birth certificate. The order was granted in…
The bubbly and outspoken actress Rami Chuene let her fans into her life and career in a tell-all interview with MacG on Thursday. These are five things we learnt from the interview: TV and corporate gigs Rami said the entertainment…
Has your driving or vehicle licence expired? Don’t worry, you now have extra time to get it renewed. Transport minister Fikile Mbalula has gazetted an amendment to the lockdown regulations to allow road users until next year to renew…
The Hawks national clean audit task team have conducted search and seizure operations at the homes of eThekwini municipal officials alleged to be involved in fraud, corruption and money laundering to the tune of R200m. Hawks spokesperson…
Discussions on the reopening of schools are being held this week to seek an all-inclusive way forward. This is according to President Cyril Ramaphosa who on Wednesday evening took part in a virtual imbizo, answering questions from…
It is unlikely that children are worse off at school than they are at home when it comes to Covid-19 transmissions, says the president of the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), Prof Glenda Gray. “We haven’t seen an adverse…
