The City of Tshwane continues its mission to receive payment for numerous outstanding electricity bills totalling millions, with the South African Revenue Service (SARS) and SA Police Service (SAPS) Headquarters being the latest in a number of companies and organisations that are being targeted in the City’s ‘no fear, no favour’ campaign. With both SARS […]

An ongoing locust invasion of veld and farmland in South Africa, by bands of wingless nymphs, is wreaking havoc on a wide area in the vicinity of Vosburg, Van Wyksvlei, Prieska, Marydale, Victoria West and Hopetown. The government has been urged to scale up its locust combatting efforts to better mitigate the impact. SAPeople contributor […]

South Africa’s luxurious Blue Train is being suspended, effective from today 14 February 2022, until further notice, according to a Transnet message shared on social media. “Due to safety considerations the business has taken the decision to suspend The Blue Train operations in order to conduct a full analysis following the recent unfortunate incidents that […]

Manager says he is used to addressing angry crowds at Durban office. By Nokulunga Majola. Chaos erupted outside the Home Affairs office in Umgeni Road, Durban on Thursday when scores of people demanded assistance after the office closed early at 3:30 pm. People had been queuing for more than eight hours to apply for IDs and […]

The Polokwane Magistrate’s Court on Thursday remanded in custody a man who is alleged to be the mastermind behind the kidnapping of 10 foreign nationals in the city in January 2022. Police spokesperson, Lieutenant Colonel Robert Netshiunda, said Dilpazeer Azam, a 39-year-old Pakistani national, was arrested in Centurion on Sunday during an intelligence-led operation comprising members of National […]

Kuli Roberts’ family has confirmed that the popular South African media personality, who was known for being the life and soul of the party, tragically and unexpectedly passed away last night. “It is with profound regret and sadness that we confirm the untimely passing of our dear daughter, mother, grandmother, sister and aunt Nomakula ‘Kuli’ […]

Patients and staff members were left shocked at Tembisa Hospital this morning, following a fatal shooting incident, that led to the hospital being closed to the public during the day. The Gauteng Department of Health (GDoH) said the incident occurred just after 08:00 this morning, when a 30-year-old police officer entered the hospital grounds driving […]

Amarula, one of the most famous elephants in Africa, has sadly passed away at the age of 65. Amarula was the biggest bull elephant in Pilanesberg National Park, which had become his home in 1998 when he and a few other ellies were moved over from the Kruger National Park. Amarula made international headlines in […]

BOSTON, USA (Reuters) – Three female graduate students at Harvard University filed a lawsuit on Tuesday accusing the Ivy League school of ignoring for years the sexual harassment of students by a South African professor who they said threatened their academic careers if they reported him. By Nate Raymond. The students filed the lawsuit in […]

On Sunday almost 100 people protested at Muizenberg beach to oppose a seismic survey along the West Coast of South Africa by an Australian company called SEARCHER. An urgent application for an interdict to halt the seismic survey will be heard in the Cape High Court on Monday morning. As part of the campaign, a […]

ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) – Cyclone Batsirai killed at least 120 people in Madagascar, the second to hit the Indian Ocean island in just two weeks, triggering floods, bringing down buildings and cutting power, officials said. By Lovasoa Rabary. (Death toll last updated 11 Feb.)  One of the worst-hit towns was Nosy Varika on the east coast […]

Everyone’s talking about Netflix documentary ‘Tinder Swindler’, the show that exposes an Israeli con-artist from a poor part of town who poses as a wealthy, (private) jet-setting son of a diamond billionaire, on dating site Tinder. Going by the name Simon Leviev, the fraudster (who was born Shimon Hayut before legally changing his name to […]

Rescuers – who have been working day and night for five days – say they are within three metres of saving a five-year-old child who fell down a well in Morocco, in North Africa… although they were held up by a small rock on Saturday. Update 23h30 SA Time: Tragically, the small boy died before […]

Eskom CEO, Andre de Ruyter, says without loadshedding, the power utility would face the “system equivalent of cardiac arrest”. This morning Eskom announced stage 2 load shedding in South Africa from now until Monday. According to De Ruyter, this will help prevent a “catastrophic blackout”. Following breakdowns at power stations, De Ruyter said load shedding […]

South Africa’s state power utility Eskom has announced that it will implement Stage 2 load shedding from 11am today until 5am on Monday morning. Eskom said this was due to a shortage of generation capacity following breakdowns at two generating units. The breakdowns amount to at least 14 994 MW of energy. “Since the weekend […]

Democratic Alliance (DA) Councillor Cindy Billson has laid criminal charges against ANC councillors for intimidation and assault during a council meeting on Friday 28th January, in which she was struck by a water bottle, suffered verbal abuse, intimidation and “unwanted touching”. In their attempt to destroy any evidence of their “boorish” behaviour, Cllr Billson says a number […]

The Presidency says it has noted that a report of the Presidential Economic Advisory Council (PEAC), presented to President Cyril Ramaphosa on 13 January 2022, had since been leaked to the media. The PEAC was established to provide the President with a range of expert perspectives on the country’s economic policies. The Presidency in a […]

Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife Meghan have joined the growing group of people expressing their concern to Spotify about COVID-19 misinformation on its platform, a spokesperson for their Archewell foundation said on Sunday (January 30). Singer-songwriters Neil Young and Joni Mitchell are removing their music from Spotify in protest that the giant audio-streaming service […]

Princess Charlene of Monaco’s recovery is still expected to take ‘several weeks’. This week the former South African Olympic swimmer celebrated her 44th birthday in private at an undisclosed treatment centre. The Monaco Princess shared her first Instagram post of the year – a video collage which had been created by the Princess Charlene Foundation, […]

The Western Cape Department of Agriculture’s State Veterinary Services has issued a quarantine notice to pig farmers in Thembalethu, Southern Cape, following laboratory results confirming African Swine Fever (ASF) in the area. African Swine Fever was also detected in KwaNonqaba outside Mossel Bay earlier this month. Western Cape Agriculture MEC, Ivan Meyer, said the quarantine […]

A British Airways jet, in South Africa, left hundreds of passengers stranded after airport workers RIPPED a passenger DOOR right out of the fuselage in a costly blunder. The Boeing 777 had just disembarked all those who had been on board the London to Cape Town flight, when the farcical incident happened on Wednesday morning… […]

I lived and worked in Beaufort West from 2012-2015. As a young and eager to learn Meteorologist, Disaster Risk Reduction Student and Coordinator for the CWP’s CERT (Community Emergency Response Team), I enjoyed working with Mr Hein Rust, my Mentor and now retired Disaster Manager of the Central Karoo District Municipality in Beaufort West. Most […]

A 69-year-old farmer from Howick in the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Midlands was found dead on Monday morning. Hedley James Brown, who just a week before was one of the ‘legends’ celebrating at the 75th Anniversary of the Amanzimtoti Rugby Club, was killed in a farm attack over the weekend. His body was found lying outside his […]

At least eight football fans died in a stadium stampede on Monday (25 Jan) in Cameroon, as the Africa Cup of Nations got underway. The government confirmed in a statement that another 38 people were injured at the Yaounde Olembe Stadium before Cameroon kicked off against Comoros. Fans were allegedly crushed at the entrance gate […]

Millions of people are now dying every year because of bad practices and South Africa is one of the worst culprits. By Marc Mendelson.   Last week saw the publication of two important scientific papers on the pandemic. Not Covid-19, but the pandemic of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections (known by the acronym, AMR), an ongoing and […]