# Eastgate Shopping Centre has launched Learnergy, South Africa’s first mall-based learning hub. Founded by social entrepreneur Ntsako Mhlanga, Learnergy will offer academic support, skill-building programmes, and psycho-social services for learners from Grade 1 to 12. The facility includes tutoring, entrepreneurship, robotics, and educational psychology consultations. Learnergy will open Mondays to Saturdays.
# The Border Management Authority has disrupted cross-border criminal syndicates at Kosi Bay, recovering three stolen high-value vehicles on Monday. BMA’s Mmemme Mogotsi confirmed the arrests of the suspects who were caught smuggling a stolen motorbike, a tampered Toyota Hilux, and a false-disc Toyota Corolla Cross. All were linked to pending police cases. She calls […]
# Zambia’s Energy Regulation Board has approved the Kalumbila-Kolwezi Interconnector Project. This is a 200 kilometre, 330 kilovolt transmission line connecting Zambia’s North-Western Province to the Democratic Republic of Congo. Valued at approximately 5.1-billion-rand, the project aims to strengthen regional power trade and attract private investment in energy infrastructure. It will link to First Quantum […]
# The Ministry of Police will attend the official funerals of Constables Boipelo Senoge, Cebekhulu Linda, and Keamogetswe Buys, whose bodies were recovered from the Hennops River in Centurion. Constable Senoge’s funeral is on 8 May at St Peter Anglican Church in Mangaung, while Linda’s funeral takes place on 9 May at St Rose Catholic […]
# Die Wes-Kaapse Departement van Beweeglikheid versoek alle padgebruikers om persoonlik verantwoordelikheid te aanvaar vir padveiligheid. Die departement se woordvoerder, Muneera Allie, sê 16 noodlottige ongelukke is tussen verlede Dinsdag en Sondag op provinsiale paaie aangeteken. Dit het gelei tot die dood van 18 mense, wat ‘n harde werklikheid weerspieël rondom die verwoestende gevolge van […]
# Die Stad Johannesburg het bevestig die voorafbetaalde elektrisiteitsbobelasting sal R200 per maand bly, en daarmee berigte teengestaan oor ’n voorgestelde verhoging na R270. Die burgemeesterskomiteelid vir Finansies, Margaret Arnolds, het aan eNCA beklemtoon dat hoewel daar konsepvoorstelle bestaan, geen veranderinge goedgekeur is nie. Die bobelasting, wat in Julie 2024 ingestel is, befonds die instandhouding […]
# Die DA in Gauteng eis die verwydering van die uitvoerende hoof van die Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Hospitaal, Gladys Bogoshi. Die hospitaal is weereens in ’n krisis gedompel, met pasiënte wat sonder kos en warm water moet klaarkom. Volgens Jack Bloom van die DA sukkel dokters en verpleegkundiges om honger pasiënte te behandel, met slegs […]
# China has vowed to defend “justice” in upcoming trade talks with the United States, their first since Donald Trump unveiled sweeping tariffs that shook global markets. Since the US president returned to the White House in January, his administration has imposed tariffs totalling 145-percent on goods from China. Beijing has retaliated with 125-percent levies […]
# Die Moral Regeneration Movement veroordeel die beweerde ontklee-deursoekings van vroulike mynwerkers by die Kopanong-goudmyn naby Klerksdorp. Die organisasie bestempel dit as ontmenslik en rassisties. Die MRM se sameroeper in Noordwes, Pastoor Lesiba Kgwele, het die owerhede versoek om ondersoek in te stel en die ondersoekers aanspreeklik te hou. Hy het verouderde sekerheidspraktyke gekritiseer en […]
