News

The Eden District Municipality said that four people are reported to have died and many houses in Phantom Pass at Rheenendal, near Knysna, destroyed as fires continue to rage along the Garden Route.In its latest update early Wednesday evening, the

JOHANNESBURG, June 7 (ANA) – The Chamber of Mines said on Wednesday that the positive seasonal contribution of mining to the economy masked the current precarious position of the South African mining sector and “very concerning&rdquo

The DA said that its Federal Executive had decided by an overwhelming majority to officially suspend former leader Helen Zille from party related activities until such time as her disciplinary hearing is concluded.In a statement late Wednesday, the

Eight people have died in storms lashing the Western Cape and in fires raging along large parts of the Garden Route.The Western Cape Disaster Management Centre said four people died in a fire caused by lightning in Kraaifontein in Cape Town.In

PARLIAMENT, June 7 (ANA) – The South African Post Office could as soon as next week finalise a contract with the South African Social Security Agency that will see it take over welfare grant payment for the next few years, CEO Mark Barnes said

KNYSNA, June 7 (ANA) – The Knysna Municipality has confirmed that three people died in a fire near Rheenendal.The Municipality said that a farm workers, his wife and their son perished in the fire on Wednesday.Several residents from a local

The huge storm that is battering Cape Town claimed its first fatalities on Wednesday with reports of a 60-year-old man dying when an informal housing structure collapsed in Lavender Hill, and further reports of four people dying in Kraaifontein

The Cape Town High Court handed down a life sentence Wednesday morning to Howard Oliver, the man who raped and murdered 16-year-old teenager Franziska Blöchliger in Tokai Forest last year.Police spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Andrè

 A group of bogus doctors who were found guilty of illegally terminating pregnancies were sentenced to six months imprisonment by the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court, police said on Wednesday.Police spokesperson, Captain Xoli Mbele, said