# The Gauteng legislature’s portfolio committee on Community Safety has renewed its call for a gun-free province following a surge in violent shootings. This comes after the killing of a municipal employee in Vanderbijlpark, and a businessman and his security guard were fatally shot in Ormonde. The committee’s chairperson, Bandile Masuku, welcomed the involvement of […]
# The 4360 International Comedy Festival is taking over Durban this week with three major comedy events across the city. The programme begins with a free street comedy competition at the Workshop Amphitheatre, followed by a warm-up show on Florida Road, and concludes on Friday with the main international showcase at the Bat Centre. Hosted […]
# The Johannesburg Development Agency has launched its 2026 student chapter orientation programme aimed at exposing built environment students to real urban development projects. University of the Witwatersrand’s students visited key sites, including the Sandton and Gandhi Square bus rapid transit projects, the Linbro Park landfill rehabilitation site, and the Chancellor House restoration. The agency’s […]
# North West businessman and ANC-affiliate Suleiman Carrim is unlikely to testify before the Madlanga commission tomorrow after being hospitalised following a suspected heart attack at the gym in Sandton. Carrim was due to be questioned over financial dealings linked to tenderpreneur Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala. The commission’s spokesperson, Jeremy Michaels, says the commission will proceed […]
# Union federation Cosatu has expressed outrage over the murder of an Emfuleni municipal worker in Gauteng, believed to have been killed after exposing alleged corruption. Martha Rantsofu had reported irregularities involving municipal accounts and had opened a case with the Hawks. Cosatu’s Zanele Sabela calls on law enforcement to swiftly arrest and prosecute those […]
# Swimming: Cape Town endurance swimmer Karen Kennedy has made history by completing a quadruple Robben Island crossing in the icy Atlantic waters from Blouberg Strand, covering nearly 30-kilometres in just over ten-hours. The nearly 60-year-old completed the swim without a wetsuit and is now awaiting Guinness World Records ratification as the first and fastest […]
# According to FNB, South Africa’s mining sector recorded strong growth in February, with output rising by 9.7-percent compared to a year earlier. The increase was mainly driven by a sharp jump in platinum group metals production, along with gains in chromium, manganese and gold. Economist Thanda Sithole says while output grew on a monthly […]
# Renewable energy company Mulilo has reached financial close on its 337-megawatt Middlepunt Solar photovoltaic project in the Free State. The project near Welkom is the first under bid window seven of the renewable energy programme to reach this stage. Mulilo CEO Jan Fourie says once operational, the project is expected to generate about 770 […]
# Gauteng MEC for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs and Infrastructure Development, Jacob Mamabolo, has dismissed claims by ActionSA over an alleged fleet procurement scandal as baseless and misleading. This follows allegations of wrongdoing linked to a 16-million-rand fleet procurement in Emfuleni Local Municipality. The department’s Theo Nkonki says the province cannot interfere in municipal […]
