The City of Tshwane Emergency Services Department has partnered with What3Words to help emergency personnel locate callers quickly and accurately during emergencies. The new system is aimed at assisting residents who do not have registered addresses or who live in areas where street names and landmarks are unclear. The What3Words system divides the world into…
The quiet, rolling hills of Mbumbulu, south of Durban, were shattered on a lazy Sunday afternoon when three unidentified men pulled up outside the rural homestead of outspoken anti-immigration activist Ngizwe Mchunu. What followed was a brazen act of retaliation that has since ignited a firestorm of political tension, online debate, and a high-stakes police…
The sirens began wailing just before 11 p.m. By the time police arrived at the corner of Nqabara Street and Mhlontlo Road in Walmer, the silence was already deafening. Neighbors who had been jolted awake by the rapid crack of gunfire now stood in their doorways, wrapped in blankets, staring at a scene they could…
In a vast, sun-scorched landscape where temperatures routinely exceed 40 degrees Celsius in summer and the wind howls across semi-desert plains for months on end, the Northern Cape government is placing a monumental bet on renewable energy projects to breathe new life into the province’s struggling economy. The plan—ambitious, risky, and potentially transformative—aims to turn…
The high-profile trial of Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, the outspoken daughter of former president Jacob Zuma and a sitting Member of Parliament for the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party, is set to resume on Monday morning in the Durban High Court. The case, which has drawn intense public and political scrutiny, centers on allegations that Zuma-Sambudla played a…
In a packed conference hall at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, where the air thrummed with a mixture of anticipation and nervous energy, Geordin Hill-Lewis was elected as the new Federal Leader of the Democratic Alliance (DA) on Saturday afternoon. And in a searing, defiant acceptance speech that drew repeated standing ovations—and a few…
A thirteen-year-old with a notebook and a dream. A university student with a prototype in a garage. A grandmother with a community solution sketched on a napkin. These are not outliers. These are exactly the people the 2026 Citizen Entrepreneurship Competition is searching for. Applications officially opened today for the annual global contest, inviting aspiring…
The uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP), the fledgling political movement that shook South Africa’s electoral landscape just two years ago, is bleeding members at an alarming rate. On Friday, February 20, 2026, Colleen Makhubele, a high-profile Member of Parliament and former Johannesburg City Council Speaker, announced her resignation from the party’s parliamentary caucus. She is the…
Private investigator Paul O’Sullivan acknowledged that he holds no formal professional qualifications during his appearance before Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee investigating criminality in the justice system. O’Sullivan, who testified about his role in exposing corruption and assisting law enforcement as a police reservist, was pressed by ActionSA MP Dereleen James to clarify his academic background….
The Free State High Court in Bloemfontein is set to hear outstanding issues raised by Moroadi Cholota in her special plea to be removed as an accused in the R255 million asbestos roof removal corruption case. The hearing follows a directive from the Constitutional Court, which ruled that certain grounds forming part of Cholota’s special…
