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By the time disaster relief organisation Gift of the Givers reaches Makhanda (formerly Grahamstown) on Tuesday with truckloads of bottled water, large parts of the city will have had dry taps for eight days, Grocott’s Mail reported. Residents queued for hours on Sunday as trucks organised by a municipality-led crisis committee
One of the pupils who was severely injured during the structural collapse at Hoërskool Driehoek on February 1 suffered a setback on Sunday, Netwerk24 reported. According to that publication, Grade 8 pupil Cheverné Duvenhage, 13, had to be sedated and connected to a respirator after having heart palpitations. On Friday, she could
State Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan’s Equality Court challenge against EFF leader Julius Malema and his deputy Floyd Shivambu has been moved to the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg. Angelike Charalambous from Ian Levitt Attorneys, representing Malema and Shivambu, confirmed to News24 that the matter had been moved
Deputy National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) Willie Hofmeyr has rejected any suggestion that there was political interference on his part in the dropping of charges against former president Jacob Zuma. “I put it to you that the decision not to prosecute the former president amounted to political interference in the
Durban police have opened an inquest docket after a man fell off the beachfront’s famous cable car and died. “A case of inquest was opened at Point police station after a 23-year-old man allegedly fell from a cable car yesterday afternoon,” said Lieutenant Colonel Thulani Zwane. “He was taken to hospital
The newborn baby who was rescued from a stormwater pipe in Durban on Monday morning is in good health, her attending physician has said. “She has been awake, responsive and crying. Her glucose and sugar levels are good. She is stable enough for [a] transfer to base hospital so the social aspect can be sorted,” …
Former ANC MP Vytjie Mentor remains adamant that she caught an SAA flight to Johannesburg and back to Cape Town on a Monday sometime between September and October in 2010. This is despite records before the Zondo commission of inquiry into state capture reflecting that she caught a return flight to Gauteng via SAA on …
The ANC provincial task team in the North West has been dissolved, while the disbanded provincial executive committee (PEC) takes its rightful seat as directed by the Gauteng High Court. The ANC’s top brass met with the PEC on Sunday. This comes after the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg declared the ANC’s decision to
Rhodes University is not about to run out of water, a spokesperson said in response to claims that the academic institution would have to close because of the water crisis in Makhanda. “Contrary to a recent media report, Rhodes University is not about to shut down,” the university stated. Communications manager Veliswa
