Day: August 28, 2024
News24 | Potato prices spike 15% in a week after black frost hits Limpopo crop
Potato prices have jumped 15% on average over the past week, data from an industry group showed on Wednesday, after black frost destroyed crops and tightened supplies in Limpopo.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Flamingo Heights – Cape Town’s hidden informal settlement
Flamingo Heights has 100 homes, running water, sanitation and electricity - but it also has unemployment, blocked drains and electricity outages.
Continue ReadingNews24 | ActionSA shakes Tshwane: Coalition in jeopardy as party reviews position amid looming no confidence vote
With another motion of no confidence in Tshwane Mayor Cilliers Brink looming, ActionSA is reviewing its position in the multiparty charter that is in power in the capital city.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Company linked to lottery ex-boss tied to theft of funds for intellectually impaired athletes
The State's ongoing investigation into hundreds of millions of rands stolen from the lottery has led to the seizure of a prime waterfront property outside Pretoria, allegedly bought with funds meant for intellectually impaired athletes.
Continue ReadingNews24 | ‘Dire conditions’: SPCA confiscates four dogs, removes three dead ones from Cape Town home
The Cape of Good Hope SPCA, in conjunction with the City of Cape Town's Animal Control Unit, removed four dogs from a makeshift metal box at a property in Kensington on Tuesday.
Continue ReadingNews24 | WATCH | Housing activists head to court over ‘illegal’ Prasa evictions in Cape Town
Housing lobby group Ndifuna Ukwazi has launched an urgent court interdict against Prasa to halt evictions on state-owned land on Cape Town's Foreshore, where illegal occupiers have been living for the past 20 years.
Continue ReadingNews24 | KZN police arrest two men in possession of drugs worth R3m
Two people were arrested in Durban after being caught with drugs valued at more than R3 million and will face charges related to drug possession and dealing.
Continue ReadingNews24 | ‘Making it official’: Reality star Gogo Maweni and husband Sabelo Mgube celebrate traditional union
Reality TV star and controversial traditional healer Gogo Maweni married her long-time partner, Sabelo Mgube, in a traditional ceremony on Sunday.
Continue ReadingNews24 | SA’s Olympic sprinting heroes through to 100m final at U20 World Champs, Van Rensburg medals
South African teenage sprinting sensations Bayanda Walaza and Bradley Nkoana are through to the final of the U20 World Championships in Peru.
Continue ReadingNews24 | EFF wants KZN structures rebuilt before conference, vows to resist tribalism
After "robust and frank" discussions over what it termed an "objectively poor performance" in the 29 May elections, the EFF will not be dismantling its leadership structure in KwaZulu-Natal.
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