Year: 2020

The United States, United Kingdom and France are still included on the list. Passengers are welcomed by family and friends after the first international flight touched down at the Cape Town International Airport on 1 October 2020 after the South Africa government eased a coronavirus travel ban. Picture: Kevin Brandt/EWN JOHANNESBURG – Home Affairs has […]

Former Transnet board chair Mafika Mkhwanazi on Monday said that when he negotiated and agreed to pay Siyabonga Gama’s settlement, he didn’t know how much it would cost Transnet. A screenshot of former Transnet board chair Mafika Mkhwanazi at the state capture commission on Friday 16 October 2020. Picture: SABC Digital News/Youtube JOHANNESBURG – Former […]

GALLERY: Free State ANC members demand accountability from Luthuli House Xanderleigh Dookey | ANC members from the Free State marched to Luthuli House in Johannesburg on 19 October 2020. The members, many of whom are beneficiaries of the failed Estina Dairy Farm project, said they wanted corrupt people in the ANC to be held accountable for the […]

The bodies of two boys, aged 4 and 23-months-old, were discovered. FILE: Remains of a mattress following a shack fire. Picture: EWN. CAPE TOWN – Two children have died in a fire in the Blue Downs area. Firefighters responded to reports of an informal structure alight in the Bardale informal settlement just after 1pm on […]

Members were protesting outside the ANC’s headquarters at Luthuli House in Johannesburg on Monday. ANC spokesperson Pule Mabe accepts a memorandum of demands from protesting Free State ANC members at the party’s Luthuli House headquarters in Johannesburg on 19 October 2020. Picture: Xanderleigh Dookey/EWN JOHANNESBURG – The African National Congress (ANC) has assured its Free […]

Untu’s Sonja Castens said that while there was this great digital system in place, not all trains were linked to it because the moderisation of signaling was years behind. Prasa’s Bellville Rail Management and Traffic Control Centre was launched on 16 October 2020 and will oversee all passenger rail operations, improve on-time performance and make […]

The 24-minute planetarium film takes viewers on a journey of how astronomy research has evolved and what the future holds for this natural science discipline. Producers of ‘Rising Star’ hope to draw South Africans and international audiences closer to the world of astronomy research being done in the country. Picture: Kevin Brandt/EWN CAPE TOWN – […]

The principal of Mzwamandla Khanyile Primary School, Roy Ntanzi, said that the school at KwaDabeka near Pinetown had broken doors and windows and had been ransacked. DURBAN – A primary school in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) has been broken into for the fifteenth time since 2018. The principal of Mzwamandla Khanyile Primary School, Roy Ntanzi, said that […]

The broadcaster contends that they were appointed without following proper procedures during the tenure of former chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng. FILE: The SABC headquarters in Auckland Park. Picture: SABC EDITOR’S NOTES: The article originally stated that the SABC had dismissed employees. This has been corrected below. JOHANNESBURG – The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) […]

Sapu describes murder of Limpopo senior officer as ‘heart-breaking’ Groblersdal station commander, Jeffrey Seroka, was gunned down outside his home over the weekend while on his way to attend a funeral. The Police in Dennilton have launched a manhunt after the Station Commander of Groblersdal Colonel Lebyane Jeffrey Seroka aged 57, was shot and killed […]