At least 24 shacks were gutted, leaving about 33 families homeless when a fire ripped through Qolweni informal settlement in Plettenberg Bay on Monday. No injuries were reported. Twenty-four shacks burnt down, leaving 33 families destitute in Qolweni informal settlement in Plettenberg Bay on Monday. The cause of the fire has not yet been confirmed. […]

The number of Covid-19 positive cases in South Africa has now exceeded 790,000. According to the SA Health Department, a further 2 302 people tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday (30 Nov), while 58 more lost their lives due to the deadly virus. This brings the total number of cases since the outbreak to 790 […]

Professional photographer Keith Garnet Millar recently travelled the (potholed) backroads of South Africa and visited towns in the Free State such as Clocolan, Jagersfontein, Thaba Nchu and Koffiefontein, along with Marydale and Groblershoop in the Northern Cape, to mention a few. His haunting photos capture a bleak and haunting portrait of some of South Africa’s […]

George Boucher, the father of one of the six young girls who went missing during Gert van Rooyen’s horrific kidnapping spree in South Africa in 1988 and 1989, has passed away. George sadly never got the answers he dedicated his life to finding. His daughter has never been found. A friend, Paula Bergoff, said in […]

A video is going viral of a crocodile snapping at a bakkie in Richard’s Bay in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), South Africa. Watch below. According to the Zululand Observer (ZO), the crocodile has been keeping local residents “on their toes” for the past few weeks. The paper said it appeared to be looking for somewhere quiet last […]

A year-long investigation by the Democratic Alliance (DA) in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) has allegedly revealed information indicating “gross negligence” by Ezemvelo in protecting rhino. The DA said it will be asking the new KZN Environmental MEC, Ravi Pillay, to appoint an independent team to probe Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife’s “complicity in rhino deaths in the province”. At […]

Cash-strapped Emfuleni, in the heart of the Vaal Triangle in South Africa, has spent almost R1-million – R893 984 000 to be exact – in four months for the payment of two administrators’ salaries who are paid an hourly rate of R2,264 each. A team of three administrators were appointed to support the lead administrator […]

“I will not be next”, “We’re done being afraid” and “Femicide is the real pandemic” were some of the many banners on display on Saturday morning during a protest against gender based violence (GBV) outside Parliament in Cape Town. “What do we want? Justice! When do we want it? Now!” chanted some of the protesters […]

The South African Government has condemned the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist, Dr Mohsen Fakhrizadeh (59), on Friday, 27 November 2020. Dr Fakhrizadeh was travelling in a vehicle when he was shot and killed in an ambush in northern Iran. According to the New York Times, both US and Israeli intelligence long believed that Fakhrizadeh […]

It’s said that there’s almost nothing you can’t buy on the black market. This week on Carte Blanche, the SA current affairs show finds out that in the streets of Cairo in Egypt, where poverty is rife, there’s another more terrifying industry – the sale of human body parts… The Illegal Trade of Human Organs […]

Despite overwhelming worldwide opposition, including a parliamentary resolution to close down the captive lion breeding industry, SA’s government is ignoring red flags that the industry is damaging the country’s reputation and deliberating a 2020 annual trade quota for the export of lion bones… writes Melissa Reitz. The Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries (DEFF) said in […]

There are 3 069 more people who contracted Coronavirus in South Africa, which pushes the cumulative total of COVID-19 cases to 778 571. Meanwhile, 88 more people succumbed to the respiratory disease, which brings the deaths to 21 289. Of the latest fatalities, 33 were recorded in the Eastern Cape, 25 in Free State, 18 in […]

Aardvarks are notoriously elusive, nocturnal mammals. They generally hide in their underground burrows during the day and emerge at night to feed exclusively on ants and termites. Aardvarks are widespread throughout most habitats of Africa south of the Sahara, except deserts. But their actual numbers are not known because they’re so elusive. Aardvarks top the […]

Health Minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize, says his department is closely monitoring the Eastern Cape to quell the resurgence of cluster outbreaks in the province. Mkhize is on a two-day visit to the Eastern Cape, which kicked off on Thursday and is set to wrap up on Friday. The visit, Mkhize said, is set to focus […]

The Democratic Alliance (DA) has strongly condemned the decision by the ANC in Mpumalanga, South Africa, to reinstate a Provincial Executive Committee (PEC) member who has been accused of raping his own two twin daughters. “This proves beyond reasonable doubt that the governing party does not take Gender-Based Violence (GBV) seriously,” said Annerie Weber MP […]

There are an estimated 14,357 homeless people living on the streets of Cape Town, and more than R744 million a year is spent on homelessness. These findings were made in a study, “The Cost of Homelessness in Cape Town”, conducted by the NGO U-turn, with help from Khulisa Streetscapes and MES. A study on the cost of homelessness in […]

As the City of Cape Town has been issued with a Hotspot Alert, Western Cape Premier Alan Winde says people in the province must be under “no illusion as to how serious the situation is, and how quickly it can deteriorate further”. Hospitals are already fuller than they were earlier this year during the first […]

Meter taxi drivers downloaded Bolt apps and requested a ride as clients, said Bongani Lucky*, a Bolt driver in the Vaal Triangle in Gauteng. “When you get to the pickup point it’s not the client but the meter taxi drivers… I was lucky because they listened to me but usually they just beat you and […]

South Africa’s most populated province Gauteng, which has been reporting the least number of active COVID-19 cases and been accused of fake statistics, has been asked by the national Health Department to reconcile its questionable data. “We have brought this to the attention of the province and they have indicated that they are in the […]

Diego Armando Maradona, one of the world’s greatest sportsmen of all time, has passed away at the age of 60, reportedly from a heart attack at a rented home in a gated community in a suburb north of Buenos Aires. Tributes have poured in from around the world for the legendary Argentinian football player, and […]

President Cyril Ramaphosa has condemned the recent arson attacks affecting the road freight industry in South Africa. Just this morning, another two trucks Two trucks were photographed in flames, burning at Etwatwa, near Benoni in Gauteng. At least 30 trucks have been targeted and torched since Thursday around the country, leading to the death of […]

POLOKWANE – Missing Tzaneen teacher Charmaine van Staden has been found. The South African Police Service (SAPS) in Tzaneen yesterday launched a search operation for the missing 55-year-old teacher from Ben Vorster High School. SAPS said in a statement that Charmaine had allegedly last been seen on Saturday, 21 November 2020 at about 10:00 in […]

Civil rights organisation AfriForum and trade union Solidarity have announced they will lay a criminal charge at the Lyttelton police station in Centurion, Gauteng, against Julius Malema, leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), tomorrow morning (Wed 25 November 2020). The charge follows after Malema’s recent remarks and threats against the South African Police Service […]

As at least 30 trucks driven by foreign drivers have been torched since Thursday, one driver shot and burnt to death and others hospitalised, the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Premier, Sihle Zikalala, has appealed for calm and a peaceful resolution to all the concerns facing truck drivers and the road freight industry as a whole. An organisation […]

South Africa recorded 2 080 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, which pushes the total number of COVID-19 cases in the country to 769 759. “We have registered a positivity rate of 14%, which is concerning,” said Health Minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize. The Eastern Cape active cases have jumped to 11 099, followed by Free State […]