# Gauteng MEC of e-Government, Bonginkosi Dhlamini, is urging all stakeholders to support Closed Circuit Television camera project initiatives aimed at making the province safer. The DA claims that the provincial government spent more than 124-million-rand installing CCTV cameras, yet approximately 28-percent of the CCTV network is currently not working. The department’s spokesperson, Neo Goba, says the […]
# The Gauteng Department of Health has warned against the use of unverified and unregulated injectable substances for body enhancement and sexual performance purposes. This follows two cases in Ekurhuleni where patients suffered severe complications, including organ failure, after allegedly using unregulated products obtained through informal channels. The department’s spokesperson, Steve Mabona, says both cases […]
# Minister of Agriculture John Steenhuisen says South Africa’s production growth must be met with intensified diplomacy and infrastructure support. This as the country has officially overtaken Spain as the world’s largest exporter of citrus by volume, with 2.9 million tons exported in 2025. This shift occurred as Spanish producers navigated increasingly complex climatic conditions. […]
# The EFF Youth Command is calling on the Department of Basic Education to urgently investigate the sexual assault incident at Laerskool Adelaide Primary School in the Eastern Cape. Two learners were allegedly sexually assaulted by a male learner at school. The EFF Youth Command’s Phumelelani Mshumi says Education MEC, Fundile Gade, has failed to provide leadership […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa has extended the term of the Khampepe Commission of Inquiry into Truth and Reconciliation Commission cases. The president established the commission last year as part of a settlement agreement in litigation brought by families of apartheid-era victims. They accused successive democratic-era administrations of allowing political interference to suppress investigations and prosecutions […]
# Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis has written to Transport minister Barbara Creecy and Finance minister Enoch Godongwana, requesting urgent funding certainty for MyCiTi bus services. This comes as the national Public Transport Network Grant is being phased out. MyCiTi accounts for 42-percent of all passenger trips on Bus Rapid Transit nationally. Hill-Lewis says uncertainty over […]
# The ANC Study Group on Communications and Digital Technologies has welcomed the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa’s response to the policy direction on Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment. ICASA has formally signalled that it cannot give full effect to Communications minister Solly Malatsi’s December 2025 policy direction on B-BBEE without an amendment to the […]
# The Tshwane Metro Police Department has launched an internal investigation into allegations that its members accepted a bribe from one of six undocumented immigrants, who were arrested during a recent operation in Winterveldt. TMPD says preliminary findings show that one-thousand-rand was voluntarily handed over to officers for safekeeping and was properly recorded in official […]
# Former president Jacob Zuma has instructed his legal team to appeal the ruling by the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Pietermaritzburg, which ordered his long-delayed arms deal corruption trial to proceed. Zuma and French arms manufacturer Thales face corruption charges linked to the multibillion-dollar 1999 arms deal. Judge Nkosinathi Chilli stated that it is in […]
