“As part of improving the vaccination rollout, various pop-up sites will be activated in the district in the coming weeks.” The Gauteng Provincial Government (GPG) mobile vaccination team is at the Vaal University of Technology (VUT), Vanderbijlpark campus from today 9 until 11 September 2021, as part of taking the vaccination rollout programme to the […]
The body of a six-year-old boy was retrieved yesterday. It’s understood the boy falling into manhole while playing with friends on Sunday. The boy’s family say they’re heartbroken, but relieved that they’ve found their child’s remains. eNCA reporter Nkosazana Dambuza is following the story. The family of the boy who fell into a manhole while playing with […]
Correctional Services Commissioner Arthur Fraser admitted that he approved Zuma’s medical parole, while the medical parole advisory board advised against it. Calls are mounting for Correctional Services Commissioner Arthur Fraser to release his reasons for overturning the medical parole board’s recommendation not to release Jacob Zuma on medical parole. Zuma was sentenced to 15 months […]
Wits University professor of vaccinology Dr Shabir Madhi says regulations on mandatory vaccination would be a good idea as it will protect people the pandemic. However, some say this would be in violation of people’s rights. South African Football Association (Safa) has offered football fans free tickets on the next Bafana Bafana game if they […]
Officials enter the Estcourt Correctional Centre, where former South African president Jacob Zuma began serving his 15-month sentence for contempt of the Constitutional Court, in Estcourt, on July 8, 2021. Disgusting, and a mockery of South African law, is how some of the country’s opposition parties, are reacting to the news, that Jacob Zuma’s being released on […]
National Freedom Party (NFP) President Zanele KaMagwaza-Msibi was at her voting station at the Thengisangaye Public Primary School in Ulundi in northern KwaZulu-Natal. National Freedom Party Leader Zanele Ka-Magwaza-Msibi has passed away. She was 59-years-old. This has been confirmed by NFP MP and close ally of Ka-Magwaza-Msibi, Achmed Shaik Emam. Ka-Magwaza-Msibi was Deputy Science […]
A Grade 8 pupil is set to appear in court for allegedly stabbing a schoolmate to death. The incident took place at school in Alexandra. The 15-year-old boy allegedly got involved in a fight with 16-year-old Qhayiya Mgayi on Monday. It is unclear why the pupils were fighting. Mgayi’s mother is urging the Basic Education […]
The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) continues to process millions of applications received electronically for the Special Covid-19 Social Relief of Distress Grant (SRD R350 Grant) since its inception on 06 August 2021. Applications for this grant are done strictly on-line and not at SASSA Offices. Once systems opened for this SRD grant, applications […]
In April, the Supreme Court of Appeal rejected Zuma’s appeal of a personal cost order relating to his corruption trial. An appeal has been posted on the Jacob Zuma Foundation’s Twitter page asking for donations to help cover the cost of his legal battles. The 79-year-old Zuma is due to stand trial for corruption along […]
Former Minister Bathabile Dlamini is to be prosecuted for perjury. The charges relate to her testimony during an inquiry by the Constitutional Court in 2018 into the social grant crisis. Judge Bernard Ngoepe found Dlamini’s conduct had been “reckless and grossly negligent” and has ordered her to pay a portion of the costs of litigation. […]