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Health and education get most of Eastern Cape's R105-billion budget
9+ hour, 17+ min ago (350+ words) Eastern Cape finance MEC Mlungisi Mvoko tabled a R105-billion budget at the provincial legislature in Bhisho on Friday. Mvoko said the budget follows priorities set by Premier Oscar Mabuyane in the State of the Province Address. The province's biggest challenge…...
REAL POLITICS: Time to review South Africa’s foreign policy under the unity government
1+ week, 6+ hour ago (965+ words) South Africa's government of national unity should trigger a long overdue rethink of the country's foreign policy, writes Zukile Majova in Real Politics." For three decades, Pretoria's international posture has largely reflected the worldview of the ANC. That approach was…...
KZN news bites: MEC busts transport company that turned school into a depot and a mechanical yard
1+ week, 1+ day ago (351+ words) Celani Sikhakhane brings you KwaZulu-Natal's latest news bites. Durban: KwaZulu-Natal Public Works MEC, Martin Meyer, has busted the corruption of a transport company that turned school premises into a bus depot and a mechanical site for its trucks. The visit…...
Connected, but still in the dark
1+ week, 2+ day ago (195+ words) By Thabo Molelekwa for Oxpeckers In Merafong Local Municipality on Gauteng's West Rand, households are connected to the national grid but cannot afford electricity, revealing how prepaid power, municipal debt and gaps in oversight are pushing communities into energy poverty....
Three Johannesburg metro cops arrested for kidnapping and robbing woman
1+ week, 3+ day ago (239+ words) Three people approached a woman and her brother at the corner of Commissioner and Von Brandis streets in the Johannesburg central business district on Friday, 20 February 2026. Two of them were men and one was a woman. All three identified themselves…...
Engineers and contractors identified in deadly Joburg building collapse
1+ week, 3+ day ago (354+ words) A building collapsed in Johannesburg on Monday, killing nine people and trapping labourers under rubble. Rescue teams worked through the night to pull people out. Public Works Minister Dean Macpherson visited the site on Tuesday and urged the owners to…...
King Misuzulu fights to save Tongaat Hulett from collapse
1+ week, 3+ day ago (297+ words) Zulu Royal Chancellor Inkosi Malusi Zondi is working to stop Tongaat Hulett from being liquidated, saying thousands of jobs and the rural economy of KwaZulu-Natal are at stake. Zondi says King Misuzulu kaZwelithini has mandated him to step in and…...
Building collapse kills six workers at Omonder construction site
1+ week, 4+ day ago (414+ words) By Everson Luhanga & Palesa Matlala A normal workday turned into horror when a concrete slab suddenly gave way at a construction site in Omonder. The collapse happened at 6 Amethyst Business Park on Amethyst Road at 14:03 on Monday. The building was…...
Kerk Street trader says government stops him from 'earning honest living"
2+ week, 2+ day ago (264+ words) Aaron Chirwa has been selling fruit and vegetables at the Kerk Street market in Johannesburg's CBD since 2010. He still has no permit to trade legally. Chirwa, who migrated from Malawi, buys his produce at City Deep and sells it for…...
Trump Watch: Trump’s new ambassador officially starts job in South Africa
2+ week, 3+ day ago (1757+ words) Donald Trump matters a lot to Mzansi and the rest of the world right now. Trump is changing the way America works " and how the world's most powerful country deals with the rest of the world." We'll track what he…...