Category: SA News

President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that the move will take effect from midnight this Sunday. President Cyril Ramaphosa before addressing South Africans on Wednesday, 16 September 2020. Picture: GCIS JOHANNESBURG – South Africa has moved to alert level one. President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that the move will take effect from midnight this Sunday. This […]

Restrictions on movement and business have been gradually eased since June, but borders have remained sealed to avoid importing the virus from abroad. Passengers wearing protective face masks arrive at the OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, on 2 March 2020 amid concerns about the spread of the COVID-19 epidemic caused by the new coronavirus. […]

The Independent Electoral Commission said it wanted to test the system with a plan to roll it out for the 2024 elections but their request for funding was not granted. CEO of IEC Simon Mamabulo addresses those gathered at the IEC ROC for the election results. Picture: Abigail Javier/EWN. JOHANNESBURG – Plans to pilot an […]

Ramaphosa is expected to address the nation at 7 pm on Wednesday where it is hoped he will also open the country’s international borders. FILE: A Doctors Without Border (MSF) nurse (C) performs a COVID-19 coronavirus test during a Ministry of Health screening and testing drive in the Wolhuter men’s hostel in Jeppestown district of […]

At the time Ndlozi remarked that men, who were clad in EFF regalia, were ‘merely touching’ reporter Nobesuthu Hejana when they refused to let her cover the demonstration outside a Clicks store at a Western Cape mall. FILE: EFF Member of Parliament Mbuyiseni Ndlozi. Picture: EWN JOHANNESBURG – The Economic Freedom Fighters’ Mbuyiseni Ndlozi has […]

The robbery occurred earlier this month at the Dordrecht Post Office. A South African Post Office branch. Picture: @PostofficeSa/Twitter CAPE TOWN – The Eastern Cape’s Safety and Liaison MEC wants justice after a Post Office manager was accused of masterminding a robbery. The postmaster appeared in Dordrecht Magistrates Court this week alongside four co-accused for […]

Spokesperson Sikonathi Mantshantsha said that the money was desperately needed to turn around the parastatal’s financial troubles. FILE: Eskom’s Megawatt Park offices in Sunninghill. Picture: EWN. JOHANNESBURG – Eskom said that municipalities managed to recover about 90% of the money that customers owed them for bulk electricity supply but a large amount of that money […]

Drugs disguised as toilet seats, toys worth nearly R1m seized at OR Tambo Int’l Police on Wednesday said drugs worth about R1 million were seized at the airport’s cargo section on Monday and Tuesday. Police this week seize drugs worth R1 million at OR Tambo International Airport’s cargo section declared as artwork, teabags, baby toys, […]

The nation has been through months of varying stages of lockdown, mass job losses and an increase in the number of vulnerable people depending on government for the bare minimum to get by. Food parcels are packaged at a food storage facility in Springs, Ekurhuleni, east of Johannesburg on 21 May 2020. Picture: Sethembiso Zulu/EWN […]

This article first appeared on GroundUp, by Buziwe Nocuze. About 700 villagers in Khwanyana outside Port St Johns share two 5,000-litre water tanks for 14 days at a time. Alternative water supplies are expensive and far away to access. The ward councillor says he has done all he can but he knows people are suffering. […]