Thabo Mbeki, who succeeded Nelson Mandela as South Africa’s second post-apartheid president, celebrated his 80th birthday on 18 June 2022. Following Mandela’s era of multiracial and multicultural rainbowism, Mbeki had to squarely address the challenges of acute inequality and the numerous grievances of the black majority caused by colonialism and apartheid. This was tough work […]

Cape Town has been revealed as the seventh most popular city break destination globally, according to research data for over 1,200 cities in over 130 countries! The data was analysed by Hotel chain Premier Inn. Cape Town Revealed As One Of The World’s Most Popular City Break DestinationsTaking a city break remains a firm favourite travel choice […]

A young student from South Africa, Chido Dzinotyiwei, has dazzled judges and secured a place in the Top 6 in the final round of the EO Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA) 2022. Chido was one of more than 65 finalists selected earlier this year. The competition is open to entrants who run a business while […]

South Africa’s annual consumer price inflation (CPI) reached 7.4% in June 2022, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) says. This is a 0.9% increase from the 6.5% recorded in May 2022. Statistician-General Risenga Maluleke on Wednesday said this was the highest rate since May 2009 when the rate was 8.0%. “The consumer price index increased by […]

President Cyril Ramaphosa has welcomed European Union (EU) Council President, Charles Michel’s pledge that commits the European Union to support Africa’s efforts to achieve food security. The pledge will also help to decrease the continent’s dependence on agricultural inputs that are exported from elsewhere in the world. “In this regard, a joint project plan was […]

South Africa, as one of the world’s top 10 coal producers, has seen its exports to Europe rise this year as European countries scramble to find alternatives to Russian coal amidst Russia’s attack on Ukraine. On August 10 this year, Europe will stop importing coal from Russia, and many European countries have started to import […]

In what has been described as a turning point in a community grappling with violent crime, high-levels of Gender Based Violence (GBV) alcohol and drug abuse, residents of Khayelitsha are forging stronger ties with law enforcement to keep their community safe. In a crime Imbizo with Police Minister Bheki Cele, community policing structures in the […]

Online trading is more accessible than ever before, so it makes sense that people are seeking support to get started. From proper online trading education to choosing a broker and making your first trade, we’ve got you covered with five essential tools for getting started. A Quality Broker A broker is a gateway between your […]

City of Matlosana Local Municipality in North West owes Eskom over R800-million. By Tania Broughton The Johannesburg High Court has ruled that Eskom can attach the bank accounts of the City of Matlosana Local Municipality in the North West Province after the municipality reneged on previous undertakings and ignored two court orders directing it to […]

President Cyril Ramaphosa says the South African government and Eskom’s main focus is to put megawatts on the grid to mitigate the rolling black outs that the country is currently experiencing. The President said that everyone has to work together to address the problem of load shedding. He said Eskom is doing as much as […]

South African Pierre Carter is an unassuming man. He enjoys spending time with his wife and daughter, their four dogs in tow. But beneath this calm exterior is a man with an appetite for danger… Soaring Everest So much so that he set off on the adventure of a lifetime to the Himalaya’s, not only […]

Eighteen tax branches of the South Africa Revenue Service (SARS) are not in operation today (Tuesday) as SARS staff embark on a wage strike. In a statement, SARS said: “(We) apologise for any inconvenience caused but due to Industrial Action taking place across SARS, we are experiencing delays in servicing our taxpayers.” The revenue collector […]

South Africa’s judicial probe into state capture and corruption, the Zondo Commission, has concluded that the State Security Agency was integral to the capture of the state by corrupt elements. These included former president Jacob Zuma’s friends, the Gupta family. The agency has been unstable for some time. Previous investigations have made findings to improve […]

As devastated families in the Eastern Cape buried their loved ones this week, South Africa is still in shock over the 21 young lives lost at a local tavern in East London. Police investigations into the cause of death have still not concluded. Some witnesses told The New York Times that “after 12:30 a.m., the […]

(Reuters) – South African born and raised Elon Musk, the chief executive officer of Tesla and the world’s richest person, said on Friday he was terminating his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter because the social media company had breached multiple provisions of the merger agreement, including not divulging just how many bots there are. […]

I have today written to the Speaker of the National Assembly, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, calling for Parliament to reconvene… writes DA Leader John Steenhuisen. It is inconceivable that Parliament is shut during this time of national crisis. It should be meeting around the clock to find solutions to the multiple crises hitting our nation simultaneously at […]

South Africans are due for a smorgasbord of load shedding stages in the week ahead as Eskom’s generation capacity shortages persist… and are expected to continue for the next few weeks. Eskom on Sunday cautioned South Africans that it would still take a few weeks for the power generation system to fully recover to pre-strike […]

Within one hour, on a fateful morning in April, Durban’s leading car manufacturer was under a metre of water. By the time the flood was over, Toyota had lost at least 4,000 cars in the Durban floods. Many were concerned the company, that suffered during the Pandemic as well, would leave SA’s shores… but instead […]

Eskom says Stage 6 load shedding will be implemented from 2pm until midnight this evening, due to a slow return to work of personnel at its power stations, following violent strike action this week. The power utility has also updated the load shedding programme for the rest of the week as follows: Stage six load […]

AfriForum has instructed its legal team to bring an urgent application to the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, to compel law enforcers to take action against striking Eskom employees who are currently in the process of intimidating and harassing their colleagues. The organisation believes the army may need to get involved as well as […]

A joint operation by various SAPS Units has led to the recovery of Eskom cables worth R2.5 million and the arrest of eight suspects. Whilst most South Africans are suffering through Stage 4 Loadshedding, the suspects – aged between 29 and 49 – were responsible for stealing six rolls of aluminium cables. The Eskom overhead […]

Under Alfred Nevhutanda’s tenure as chairperson of the Lottery board there was allegedly grand-scale corruption. By Raymond Joseph. A judge has granted a preservation order on the multi-million rand luxury home and furniture of former National Lotteries Commission (NLC) board chair Alfred Nevhutanda. Besides the house, the order was also granted against Vhutanda Investments, a private company […]

Many South Africans may be enjoying more than one braai this weekend as Eskom today escalated load shedding to Stage 4, blaming it on the ongoing unprotected labour action. In a statement, Eskom said it was compelled to take precautionary action to conserve emergency generation reserves. “Load shedding will regretfully be implemented to stage 4 […]

South African Airways, once routinely rated the continent’s best airline, is a shadow of its former self: after a difficult business rescue, it’s been shorn of planes and personnel to ease the pressure it places on the fiscus. SAA: What’s the Big Deal? After years of taxpayer-funded subsidies, a majority share in the airline has […]

Eskom says over the past 24 hours it has experienced protests at nine of its power stations and other operating facilities, which are increasing the risk of loadshedding. The unprotected strike action is by some Eskom employees, following a deadlock in wage negotiations on Tuesday. “These protests included incidents of intimidation of working employees and […]