SANDF nurses, doctors arrive in Eastern Cape to bolster Covid-19 fight

The South African National Defence Force has deployed 52 healthcare workers to the Eastern Cape. Their deployment was made after Eastern Cape premier Oscar Mabuyane...

Three provinces halt the return to school of grade R pupils

Three provinces have opted to halt the return to school of grade R pupils. Last week the department of basic education announced that on Monday...

Five suspects nabbed for R5.7m UIF fraud in predawn raid by...

Hawks investigators descended on several properties in Pretoria in an early morning raid on Saturday to round up five suspects linked to a R5.7m...

President sent me to see you, Bheki Cele tells man dragged...

Police minister Bheki Cele has dismissed the City of Cape Town’s law enforcement unit as a rogue structure. On Saturday, Cele visited Bulelani Qholani, the...

Bad habits go up in smoke under lockdown

She smoked for more than half her life, and while she often considered quitting, a Nelson Mandela Bay woman could never quite muster the...

SA Covid-19 statistics

The Minister of Health, Dr Zwelini Mkhize released the cumulative number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in South Africa is 177 124   Case Data Province Total cases for 3...

Latest Covid-19 statistics in South Africa

  Minister of Health, Dr Zwelini Mkhize release the latest Covid-19 statistics last night. As of 02 July 2020, the cumulative number of confirmed COVID-19...

JUST IN | Education department halts return to school for some...

The government has decided not to allow all pupils who were scheduled to return to class next week to do so. In a statement on...

VWSA on hunt for next big female entrepreneur

Volkswagen Group SAs Lionesses Den initiative is on the hunt for three  winning business pitches that could stand female entrepreneurs  a chance of grabbing...

Covid-19: Scared EC pupils lie about symptoms so they can get...

“I had to lie and say I had a sore throat just so I can get tested. I have seen the news on TV...

Son jailed for life for raping mother

A 21-year-old man has been sentenced to life imprisonment for raping his mother in Clocolan in the Free State. The Clocolan high court sentenced the...

Covid-19 keeping 200 Eastern Cape schools closed: premier Oscar Mabuyane

There are 200 Eastern Cape schools that remain closed because of the coronavirus pandemic‚ premier Oscar Mabuyane said in Bhisho on Tuesday morning. Mabuyane said...

Every EC stadium quarantine patient has recovered

With an unblemished recovery rate in two months of operation, the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium coronavirus quarantine facility is bringing hope at a time...

Sports Minister Mthethwa gives green light to cricket‚ tennis and swimming

The Department of Sport‚ Arts and Culture has give the green light for seven non-contact sports to resume matches‚ including cricket‚ tennis‚ canoeing and...

Teacher who threatened to kneel on students’ necks fired

A teacher at a private school in Kyalami who allegedly threatened pupils with the same fate that befell George Floyd has been fired. Sonya de...

BAT’s challenge to tobacco ban to be heard only in August

By the time the case is heard, the ban will have been in place for four-and-half months The second big legal challenge to SA’s Covid-19...

Eastern Cape hospitals‚ clinics‚ schools overwhelmed by Covid-19 ‘storm’

The impact of an approaching coronavirus "storm" is being felt in the Eastern Cape as patients overwhelm some public hospitals‚ clinics close as staff...

Cabinet backs proposal for ‘new’ airline and eased lockdown regulations

The cabinet has signed off on amendments to regulations of the Disaster Management Act which make it possible for cinemas‚ restaurants and casinos to...

Virtual festival kicks off in style

The best is yet to come. That was the feeling of some artists and organisers of the 2020 Virtual National Arts Festival (vNAF) following the...

Parliament is still in charge‚ not Covid-19 command council: Mabuza

The national coronavirus command council (NCCC) has not stripped parliament of its powers to hold ministers managing the Covid-19 crisis accountable. This is according to...

Weekend chills await as cold fronts hit SA

A "series of cold fronts" is expected to hit parts of southern SA from Thursday afternoon, sending chills across the country into the weekend. The...

Data prices will fall as Competition Commission and MTN reach agreement

The commission said on Thursday that a consent agreement concluded between itself and MTN to reduce data prices had been finalised. “This follows the commmission’s...

‘I want doctors to learn from me’: Soweto man first to...

The first South African citizen has just taken part in an international Covid-19 vaccination trial. Junior Mhlongo, 24, of Soweto has just been injected with...

Eastern Cape rapist sentenced to life behind bars

An Eastern Cape man has been sentenced to life behind in prison by the Bhisho high court on Tuesday for the rape of a...

BREAKING | Buffalo City mayor in self-solation after councillor tests positive...

Buffalo City Metro (BCM) mayor Xola Pakati has gone into self-Isolation after  a councillor  tested positive for Covid-19. BCM spokesperson Samkelo Ngwenya said Pakati “was comforted...

BREAKING | 204 test positive at Eastern Cape boarding school

The Eastern Cape health department is considering converting Makaula Senior Secondary School into an isolation facility after 204 people at the school tested positive...

‘We are now riding into a raging storm’: Mkhize on 100,000...

Health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize has taken a swipe at critics saying the government was not doing enough to curb the spread of Covid-19...

‘We have to be at the forefront of the battle,’ says...

Mmusi Maimane has shared the difficulty of living in fear on behalf of his daughter and women across the country who are vulnerable to...

New rules for prisoners as Covid-19 cases climb behind bars

All inmates who enter a correctional facility must be screened and quarantined for 14 days before being housed with other prisoners. This is according to...

56 staff test positive at Eastern Cape hospital

Frontier Hospital staff in Komani (Queenstown) fear for their lives and are demanding that the hospital be closed to the public after 56 employees,...

Former Bafana midfielder Quinton Fortune eyes Man United coaching job

Former Bafana Bafana and Manchester United attacking midfielder Quinton Fortune has said that racism will not stand in his way of becoming a manager...

Cape Town company agrees to pay R600,000 for over-charging for sanitisers

Caprichem, a Cape Town-based company, has agreed to pay a R500,000 penalty and R100,000 contribution to the Solidarity Fund for charging excessive prices for...

Court orders Gupta-linked businessman Kuben Moodley not to handle R232m in...

Kubentheran Moodley and his company Albatime have been restrained from handling assets worth up to R232m. This is the amount the National Prosecuting Authority's Investigating...

eNCA news anchor Shahan Ramkissoon tests positive for Covid-19

eNCA has confirmed that news anchor Shahan Ramkissoon has tested positive for Covid-19. “Shahan started feeling ill last week and was advised to go for...

Trevor Manuel’s mother dies of Covid-19 days after 94th birthday

The mother of former finance minister Trevor Manuel has died from Covid-19, four days after celebrating her 94th birthday. Philma Manuel died on Thursday, according...

Ramaphosa on gender-based violence: ‘Their killers thought they could silence them...

SA finds itself in the midst of two devastating epidemics: the novel coronavirus — and the scourge of gender-based violence that has...

Pregnant Eastern Cape woman gunned down in her driveway. Was it...

A man whose heavily pregnant partner was gunned down in cold blood outside their King William's Town home this week believes the...

Schools ‘94% ready’, Motshekga tells unions ahead of schools reopening

Basic education minister scheduled to address the nation at 4pm on Sunday Basic education minister Angie Motshekga told teachers' unions and the three major governing...

No more delays as schools set to reopen

After last week's abortive attempt, kids go back tomorrow After almost three months, most grade 7 and 12 pupils will finally head back to school...

DUTYWA POLICE INVESTIGATE ARSON OF SCHOOL

Dutywa Police are investigating an arson case following the burning down of a school in Dutywa. It is alleged that the school principal of Dinizulu...

Renier Grobler: A life cut tragically short

The 1969-70 Springbok rugby tour of Britain and Ireland became known as the “demo-tour,” with anti-apartheid activists using every opportunity to turn the playing...

Eastern Cape following same Covid-19 ‘pattern’ as Western Cape, says Mkhize...

The government is worried about the increase in Covid-19 cases in the Eastern Cape, as cases across the country climbed to 37,525...

Finally! Relief from lockdown as live sport returns to SA small...

The novel coronavirus-enforced lockdown will be easier to deal with as pay-channel broadcaster SuperSport has announced that live sport will be making...

Lockdown rules ‘unconstitutional and invalid’ – high court

The North Gauteng High Court on Tuesday declared the national lockdown regulations for level 3 and level 4 "unconstitutional and invalid".The case...

Struggling brothers helped by Zwelitsha residents

While handing out cooked meals to celebrate Mother’s Day earlier this month, Zwelitsha resident Kwezikazi Ntulini came across Mfusi Kosani, 23, standing outside his home. Ntulini...

Buffalo City could be moved to level 4 if infection rates...

Buffalo City, which the government has identified as a Covid-19 hotspot area, could be returned to lockdown alert level 4 if infection rates continue...

That orange juice is probably not the Vitamin C punch you...

If you’re drinking commercially produced orange juice for its immune-boosting Vitamin C and other health benefits‚ you’re probably seriously over-estimating their “healthiness”. Food scientist Shannon...

‘Model scout’ arrested for allegedly raping victims during photoshoots

A 32-year-old man who allegedly posed as a model scout and lured aspiring models to photoshoots where he raped them was arrested during a...

Cuban doctors will hit SA’s Covid-19 front-line on Monday

13 doctors from the Cuban Medical Brigade arrived in Klerksdorp on Friday night and will be deployed across four districts in the North West...

East London mom with stage 4 cancer beats coronavirus

Three weeks ago, East London mom Cheree Mc Ewen was told that she'd contracted Covid-19  while undergoing surgery to remove more than 20 tumours...