Year: 2020

Mbali Ntuli said that her focus was now on campaigning for the party to boost its voter base ahead of next year’s local government elections. FILE: Mbali Ntuli of the Democratic Alliance. Picture: Xanderleigh Dookey/EWN DURBAN – Former Democratic Alliance (DA) youth leader Mbali Ntuli has pledged her support for the party’s newly elected leader, […]

FROM THE DESK OF THE PRESIDENT Dear Fellow South African, In three days’ time the matric class of 2020 will sit for the National Senior Certificate examinations. It is the culmination of 12 years of schooling and a gruelling final year of preparation. For many this is an exciting moment, but one that is also […]

Angry community members chased the man they accused of raping and killing the girl. They then beat him to death. Picture: SAPS Facebook page. CAPE TOWN – Police have condemned mob justice after community members in Mdantsane murdered a man they’d killed a six-year-old girl. The child was raped and killed last Tuesday. Some locals […]

According to police, the teenager was shot in the upper body in the early hours of Saturday morning while attending a house party. CAPE TOWN – A man is expected in the dock in Centane, the Eastern Cape, on Monday morning in connection with the killing of a 15-year-old boy. According to police, the teenager […]

Several bridges and low-lying areas were flooded over the weekend due to heavy rainfall in Gauteng. JOHANNESBURG – Weather experts are warning that it will be a wet and rainy week in the country, with widespread thunderstorms over some provinces. Several bridges and low-lying areas were flooded over the weekend due to heavy rainfall in […]

There are growing concerns as criminals continue to outsmart authorities and unsuspecting motorists by promising to clear traffic fines and this is blamed partly on rising enforcement orders. A general view of a South African driver’s licence. Picture: Supplied. JOHANNESBURG – There are growing concerns as criminals continue to outsmart authorities and unsuspecting motorists by […]

Newly elected Democratic Alliance (DA) federal council chairperson Helen Zille said that the country only had 40,000 farmers left to feed 57 million citizens, meaning that food security was under threat. FILE: DA Federal Council chairperson Helen Zille. Picture: Sethembiso Zulu/EWN JOHANNESBURG – Newly elected Democratic Alliance (DA) federal council chairperson Helen Zille claims that […]

The national taxi lekgotla was concluded over the past weekend. Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula speaks at the Western Cape taxi lekgotla in Cape Town on 15 October 2020. Picture: @MbalulaFikile/Twitter JOHANNESBURG – Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula said that he was in the process of establishing a task team to help implement desperately needed changes to […]

The heavy rainfall since Saturday caused several bridges in the city to flood. FILE: Flooding in Gauteng after heavy rain. Picture: EWN JOHANNESBURG – Two motorists and their occupants had to be rescued by emergency services after trying to cross low-lying bridges in two separate incidents in Tshwane. The heavy rainfall since Saturday caused several […]

Bail hearing for Bushiris, co-accused resumes in Pretoria court They’re facing charges of fraud, theft and money laundering to the value of over R100 million. Members of the Enlightened Christian Gathering (ECG) came out in support of self-proclaimed prophet, Shepherd Bushiri, and his wife Mary Bushiri, who appeared at the Pretoria Magistrates Court on 21 […]