Category: SA News

Residents burned tyres, threw stones, and moved a vehicle and a fishing vessel into the road to block motorists. FILE: Rocks blockade a road during a protest. Picture: @SAPoliceService/Twitter CAPE TOWN – Violent protests erupted in Hangberg in Hout Bay on Wednesday following an anti-land invasion operation by the City of Cape Town (CoCT) officials. […]

Pretty Nkambule, Yvonne Mnisi, and Solomon Nyirenda were trapped underground following a tremor that collapsed part of the mine in Mpumalanga in February 2016. FILE: Lily Mine. Picture: EWN JOHANNESBURG – The families of the three trapped workers at the Lily Mine threw their weight behind Action SA’s plans to take the government to court […]

According to the World Federation of the Deaf, there were approximately 72 million people who were hard of hearing worldwide, with more than 80% of them living in developing countries. Sign language. Picture: Tshepiso Mokoena Foundation. CAPE TOWN – Wednesday 23 September 2020, was marked as International Day of Sign Languages. The United Nations recognises […]

Sandile Ngcobo was suspended earlier this year after fresh charges emerged in the Ethekwini waste collection scandal. FILE: Former eThekwini Mayor Zandile Gumede and and some of her co-accused appear in the Durban Commercial Crimes Court on 10 September 2020 on charges relating to corruption. Picture: Nkosikhona Duma/EWN DURBAN – A senior eThekwini municipal official […]

Ndyalvane, Caylene Whiteboy, and Voster Netsiongolo were in court on Wednesday for their bail application. The police officers accused of murdering Nathaniel Julies appear in the Proteas Magistrates Court on 22 September 2020. Picture: Abigail Javier/EWN SOWETO – The State in the Nathaniel Julies case has told the Protea Magistrates Court that releasing the police […]

Five suspects were shot and killed while two others were arrested in Klipportjie on Wednesday afternoon after police followed tip offs and foiled a planned cash-in-transit heist in Boksburg. Police Minister Bheki Cele (centre) and National Police Commissioner General Khehla Sitole arrive in Dawn Park, Boksburg, on 23 September 2020 following a foiled cash-in-transit heist […]

Maxatshwa said Zwane told officials that Gauteng had used a controversial advance payment scheme that he proposed, but Gauteng denied this – and again he told the HoD to tell the MEC that. But the scheme went ahead anyway. Free State local government and housing Chief Director Kaizer Maxatshwa at the State Capture Commission on […]

Your EWN Weather Watch update for Thursday, 24 September 2020. JOHANNESBURG – South Africans can look forward to a fine and sunny Heritage Day on Thursday, according to the South African Weather Service. WESTERN CAPE It will be cloudy with fog in areas over the south-west and south coastal areas in the morning, but otherwise […]

Kabiru Bala was addressing protesters outside the Nigerian Embassy in Pretoria on Wednesday afternoon. Civil society organisation leaders speak to Nigerian Ambassador Kabiru Bala and hand a memorandum over to him on 23 September 2020. Picture: Abigail Javier/EWN PRETORIA – The Nigerian High Commissioner to South Africa on Wednesday that he would not allow Nigerians […]

This followed former President Jacob Zuma’s no-show at the commission on Monday after he was scheduled to appear. FILE: Former President Jacob Zuma at the state capture commission on 17 July 2019. Picture: Abigail Javier/EWN JOHANNESBURG – The Jacob Zuma Foundation has heavily criticised the chairperson of the State Capture Commission Chair, Deputy Chief Justice […]