The usually obscure town of Marikana in the Rustenburg area of Mpumalanga Province was a huge hive of activity as early as 5:00 am on Wednesday as workers trekked to work for the first time in many months after...
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The Marikana saga rages on. On Thursday, there were emotional outbursts as the SAPS key witness gave evidence with most of the relatives of those that were killed in the violence crying that, in the end, the co...
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The Democratic Alliance has, on Thursday, called on embattled chair of the Independent Electoral Commission to consider resigning from her position as a way of saving the commission’s integrity. This call...
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The President of the Republic of South Africa, on Tuesday evening presented the State of the Nation Address in Parliament, Cape Town. He started his seventh State of the Nation Address by acknowledging the pass...
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Nigeria’s military has announced today that it has detained more than 460 people travelling from the country’s North to South, allegedly due to suspicion that the travelers were Boko Haram affiliate...
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South Africa celebrates youth day today in commemoration of the 38th anniversary of the 1976 Soweto uprisings. On this day, 38 years ago, a group of schoolchildren set off from Morris Isaacson, located in Orlan...
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Epainette Mbeki was finally laid to rest on Saturday in her home in Idutywa, Eastern Cape. Speaking at the burial of the near centinarian, the deputy president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, said that the de...
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State electricity provider, Eskom, has issued a statement declaring an electricity state of emergency countrywide. In a statement by Eskom on Facebook earlier today, the service provider claimed that the power ...
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President Jacob Zuma is going to remain at home to rest during both the Government’s Lekgotla and he will no longer deliver the main address at the annual Youth Day address, which is to be held in Kimberk...
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By Thursday morning, fifteen people were reported to be still trapped under the rubble of the collapsed disused power building in Soweto. The whole scenario started when some copper and metal thieves went into the privately owned building to steal some copper and other metal for resale. As is usually the case for them, they expected to be in and out of the place in a short space of time. From preliminary investigations, it appears that one of them pulled the one piece of meta... Read more »
