Looking to the future: Maimane prepares for 2024 general elections
JOHANNESBURG – One South Africa Movement founder Mmusi Maimane says he had already started a process of putting together a team of activists …
Cele calls for serious look into link between drugs, alcohol abuse and GBV
JOHANNESBURG – Police Minister Bheki Cele Says there has been an increase in cases of gender-based violence since lockdown restrictions were …
Life under lockdown: How SA is moving on
Maxine, 33, writer, Eldorado Park, Johannesburg. When my stock of cigarettes started going empty two weeks into the lockdown, I just drove to the …
30 S.Africans stranded in Germany after being told SAA flight can’t take all
JOHANNESBURG – More than 30 South Africans are stranded at Frankfurt Airport in Germany after a South African Airways (SAA) flight they were …
Suspected hijacker killed as Bruma resident intervenes to help motorist
… owner of a property which the would-be victim drove to for help opened fire on the suspects in Bruma, eastern Johannesburg, on Saturday evening.
Dept fast-tracking release of inmates as COVID-19 infections in prisons rise
JOHANNESBURG – The Department of Correctional Services said it’s fast-tracking its efforts to release more inmates as coronavirus infections within …
Cigarette ban feeds criminality, says Business Against Crime
Johannesburg – As the tobacco manufacturers and government fight it out in court over the ban of cigarette sales during lockdown level 3, a body …
COVID-19 deaths up 50% in past seven days
JOHANNESBURG – Health Minister Zweli Mkhize says 69 more people, including a fourth teenager, have died from COVID-19 in the last 24 hours.
The pillars of a new society after the pandemic
People queue for food parcels in Johannesburg. The author says the poor, vulnerable and marginalised must be cared for if there is to be a post-Covid …