# Veteran actress and former beauty queen Cynthia Shange is being laid to rest in Empangeni, KwaZulu-Natal. The 76-year-old passed away on Monday at a hospital in KwaZulu-Natal following an illness. Shange made history as the first Black South African to compete at the Miss World in 1972. Shange starred in the 1975 film, Udeliwe, South […]
# Die MK-party het aan die voorsitter van die Nkabinde-ondersoek, regter Elizabeth Nkabinde, geskryf om te verseker die voormalige hoof van die Nasionale Vervolgingsgesag, Shamila Batohi is betrokke by die ondersoek na advokaat Andrew Chauke se geskiktheid om as aanklaer te dien. Die party sê Batohi, wat die klagte aanhangig gemaak het, het haar aan […]
# The Special Investigating Unit has welcomed a Special Tribunal ruling setting aside an 85-million-rand tender awarded to ISF Shula Joint Venture for a KwaZulu-Natal border wall. The tribunal found only part of the project completed despite most funds being paid and ordered repayment of profits and legal costs. SIU national spokesperson, Selby Makgotho, told […]
# The MK Party says it has held talks with a delegation representing King Misuzulu kaZwelithini over concerns about the Ingonyama Trust Act of 1994. The party argues that current arrangements limit the monarch’s authority over 2.8-million-hectares of Zulu land and place undue control in the hands of the Trust Board and the Ministry of […]
# Suspended Tshwane Metro Police deputy chief Umashi Dhlamini clarified to the Madlanga Commission that EFF leader Julius Malema was not involved in any security tender list for anti-land invasion operations. Dhlamini told evidence leader Matthew Chaskalson that two individuals claimed to represent Malema and met with the City’s chief financial officer, Gareth Mnisi, pushing […]
# The MK Party has written to the chairperson of the Nkabinde inquiry into Advocate Andrew Chauke’s fitness to serve as a prosecutor, Justice Elizabeth Nkabinde, calling for urgent steps to secure the attendance of former National Prosecuting Authority head Shamila Batohi. The party says Batohi, who initiated the complaint, withdrew from cross-examination after giving initial […]
# A handcrafted burrata from Puglia Cheese in Somerset West in Western Cape has been named South Africa’s Dairy Product of the Year at the 2026 SA dairy championships held in Paarl. The cheese, made from 100-percent South African milk, stood out among a record entry of over one-thousand from 81 producers. Judges praised the […]
# A University of Pretoria expert calls for cautious optimism following the launch of the South African-led HIV vaccine trial, Brilliant 011, in Cape Town. The university’s Theresa Rossouw says the study marks an important scientific step in the long and complex search for an HIV vaccine but it’s not a breakthrough or cure. Rossouw […]
# The South African Weather Service says a well-developed cold front is expected to move into the Western Cape and parts of the Northern Cape from Sunday afternoon. It will bring heavy rain, strong winds, and rough seas. Rain of up to 40-millimetres is expected in some areas, along with strong winds that could reach […]
