MEC for Transport Bheki Ntuli has died, the African National Congress (ANC) in KwaZulu-Natal confirmed late on Saturday night 16 January 2021. Social media users have since paid tribute to the late MEC. TRANSPORT MEC BHEKI NTULI PASSES AWAY  The ANC in KZN…

The body representing taverns and shebeens is calling for an urgent meeting with President Cyril Ramaphosa, arguing that the current ban on alcohol sales – the third since the lockdown began in March 2020 – heralds the death knell for taverns. In…

The manager of a well-known liquor store in the Eastern Cape and one other suspect was caught selling alcohol to customers on a highway in the early hours of the morning. The pair was arrested on 13 January for breaking Level 3…

South African DJs Fresh and Euphonik have pledged to step aside from their work engagements after a complaint of rape was laid against them on Wednesday. An unnamed woman took to social media alleging that she was drugged by the pair and…

A woman in her twenties and a two-year-old toddler were brutally murdered on Thursday 14 January 2021 inside a lodge in Limpopo. Police in the province are now on the hunt for the man who was with them.  According to police, the…

Close to 100 South African healthcare professionals have issued a passionate plea to President Cyril Ramphosa to set up an urgent special council to conduct a rapid review of the antiparasitic drug Ivermectin. Durban-based GP, Dr. Naseeba Kathrada, penned a heartfelt letter…

Campaigners in Europe say their government’s efforts to contain the coronavirus pandemic have failed, and have launched a petition advocating for the imposition of a simultaneous “hard lockdown across Europe.” The “ZeroCovid” petition, launched in Berlin and Vienna had drawn 17,000 signatures…

Coronavirus vaccine doses secured by the African Union (AU) will be allocated according to countries’ population size, President Cyril Ramaphosa said Friday, speaking in his capacity as AU chair. He said vaccines from Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and AstraZeneca would be available…

A World Health Organisation (WHO) team, currently in Wuhan, China, says the identity of the very first case of Covid-19 – the so-called ‘patient zero’ – may never be identified as it called on nations to step up cooperation and information sharing…

Police in Gauteng have launched a manhunt for an unconfirmed number of unknown suspects after a tragic shooting incident in Phiri section, Soweto in the early hours of Saturday morning 16 January 2021. The shooting tragically resulted in the death of a…