# President Cyril Ramaphosa says the government is in the process of identifying the South Africans who were caught up in the Nepal floods disaster. Ramaphosa was addressing media during the ANC election trail campaign in Orlando West, Soweto yesterday. Six South Africans are reported missing after the floods swept across the Nepal-Tibet border. The […]
# The Inter-Ministerial Committee on Local Government Elections has urged all South Africans to exercise caution and not undermine democracy through any type of violence during the elections. The Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs spokesperson, Pearl Maseko-Binqose says, the Electoral Commission’s research report provides information on the views and behavioural preferences of adult […]
# The agriculture organistion, TLU SA, says the country’s latest quarterly police crime statistics provide no reason for complacency. Between April and June this year, five-thousand-427 people were murdered in South Africa. Contact crime decreased by 2.3-percent, while the number of murders fell by 5.9-percent. TLU SA’s Bennie van Zyl says the government cannot present […]
# SAFTU has urged government and the Higher Education and Training Department to prioritise the transformation of the higher education sector. Statistics show that at the University of Cape Town, 39.7-percent of the professors are white, 39.3-percent are foreign nationals, while African, coloured and Indian professors combined constituted only 22.6-percent. Saftu’s Asive Dyani says this […]
# COSATU is calling for urgent measures to protect workers and the economy from steep fuel price increases expected next week. Petrol is forecast to rise by up to one-rand-seven-cents a litre, while diesel could increase by as much as two-rand-92-cents. The union federation says the increases will place further pressure on households already struggling […]
# Western Cape premier, Alan Winde has welcomed the decrease in murders recorded in the province during the first quarter of the 2026/2027 financial year. The latest quarterly police crime statistics show that murders in the province decreased by 6.7-percent, down from one-thousand-148 cases between April to June 2025 , to one-thousand-71 cases in the […]
# The DA in Gauteng says premier Panyaza Lesufi has failed to to curb serious violent crimes in the province. According to police crime statistics, Gauteng remains the country’s highest contributor to kidnapping, accounting for a staggering 51-percent of all reported kidnapping cases nationally between April and June this year, while one-thousand-772 attempted murders were […]
# RISE Mzansi has criticised recent police crime statistics, arguing that reported declines in contact crimes create a false sense of security while ignoring an escalating crisis of gender-based violence in the country. Between April and June this year, 305 people were murdered as a direct result of mob justice and vigilantism. RISE Mzansi’s Makashule […]
# Twelve SAPS members were injured and an unknown motorist was killed in Limpopo, after a collision on the N1 freeway near the Astron filling station last night. Police spokesperson Malesela Ledwaba says the crash happened when a motorist traveling northbound on the N1 veered out of his lane and collided with a police minibus:
