Category: SA News

Finance Minister Tito Mboweni will table an adjustment budget next month where he’s expected to announce where government will get about R10 billion, which will be used to get South African Airways off the ground. FILE:Despite missing a deadline last week to secure R10.4 billion, government has committed that it will never allow SAA to […]

In its responding papers to the Labour Court application made by the unions, Treasury said the workers who had been beneficiaries of decades of above-inflation salary increases should understand the exceptional circumstances in which government found itself. JOHANNESBURG – As public servants unions wait eagerly for the Labour Court to set down a date for […]

An eyewitness has told EWN that criminals arrived in two vehicles and tried, unsuccessfully, to bomb a cash van in Evaton on Monday afternoon. Bystanders saw this as an opportunity to try their luck. A G4S van. Picture: Sethembiso Zulu/ EWN JOHANNESBURG – There appears to have been an attempted cash-in-transit heist in Evaton in […]

He has backtracked on his earlier affidavits where he said the R1 billion spending of a low-cost housing project was a fraudulent scheme. But he has confirmed that more than R400 million was spent in advance and without procurement. Former human settlements Head of Department Nthimose Mokhesi. Picture: YouTube Screenshot JOHANNESBURG – Deputy Chief Justice […]

Dr Peter Beale and the late Dr Abdulhay Munshi were dragged to court on a charge of culpable homicide after the death of a ten-year-old boy following an operation. President Cyril Ramaphosa at the Union Buildings on 15 August 2020. Picture: GCIS JOHANNESBURG – The Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) will now approach […]

Lungisa was handed a two-year jail term in 2018 for the 2016 assault of fellow councillor, Rano Kayser, by smashing a glass jar over his head during a council meeting. FILE: Former Nelson Mandela Bay councillor Andile Lungisa. Picture: GCIS JOHANNESBURG – Former Nelson Mandela Bay councillor Andile Lungisa is expected to appeal his two-year […]

The 217 Cuban doctors were deployed to the country earlier this year to assist in the fight against COVID-19, with 28 of them currently working in KwaZulu-Natal. More than 200 Cuban doctors arrived in the country early on Sunday morning to bolster support in the fight against Covid-19. Picture: GCIS. DURBAN – KwaZulu-Natal authorities said […]

Carlisle Kinnear (24) explained that he thanked his dad’s police team for protecting him up until the very end. Police Minister Bheki Cele address the media along with the family of Detective Charl Kinnear (from left): Carlisle Kinnear (son, in grey)), Nicolette Kinnear (wife, in yellow) and Casleigh Kinnear (son, in maroon). Picture: Kevin Brandt/EWN […]

The Western Cape Health Department has placed an advert for service providers to tender for body cams to be worn by Metro EMS officials while responding to calls. EMS teams in the Western Cape came under attack in July 2002, including one team that was transporting a patient in an ambulance. Picture: Supplied CAPE TOWN […]

The union is demanding an 8% salary increase for front line workers fighting the coronavirus. Nehawu members protest for better working conditions on 26 August 2020. Picture: Nehawu AD/Facebook JOHANNESBURG – The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) was picketing outside the Union Buildings on Monday morning, demanding answers from President Cyril Ramaphosa […]