Year: 2025
News24 | Karyn Maughan | 2024: A year of reckoning for South Africa’s once untouchable judges
After nearly two decades, Dr John Hlophe and "drunk judge" Nkola Motata were finally removed from the bench. And, Karyn Maughan writes, this marked 2024 as a year of historic reckoning for previously untouchable judges.
Continue ReadingNews24 | ‘A fate unworthy of any human being’: Stilfontein zama zama saga heads to ConCourt
Human rights organisation Mining Affected Communities United in Action says to leave people underground in Stilfontein "abandoned in darkness, is to sentence them to a fate unworthy of any human being".
Continue ReadingNews24 | ‘Crucial’ 150% incentive for SA electric vehicle producers signed into law
A 150% tax incentive for electric and hydrogen-powered vehicle manufacturers has been signed into law. While the incentive should bolster local EV manufacturing, it will only take effect in 2026.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Proteas back to notorious Newlands as sealed WTC journey comes full circle
Friday's second Test between the Proteas and Pakistan is another full-circle moment in Temba Bavuma's storied Test career, which has seen his ups and downs play out in living colour.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Impeached people should be barred from public office, Casac says after Hlophe, Mkhwebane sagas
The Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution (Casac) says it will propose to Parliament that impeached people be barred from holding any public office, including serving as MPs.
Continue ReadingNews24 | ‘Officials can’t exist in a security bubble’: Judge blocks Joburg’s costly VIP bodyguard squads
"Public officials are not entitled to exist in a security bubble, abstracted from the day-to-day concerns of the general public."
Continue ReadingNews24 | Gauteng health department internal probe clears Westbury Clinic of expectant mother’s death
The Gauteng Department of Health says its internal investigation into the death of a 32-year-old expectant mother, who died at the Westbury Clinic, found she had a serious underlying condition.
Continue ReadingNews24 | ‘Do they want to beat me?’ Nomvethe sets PSL goals record challenge for Shalulile, Grobler
Legendary Premier Soccer League (PSL) all-time top scorer Siyabonga Nomvethe has issued an unspoken challenge to modern goal machines Peter Shalulile and Bradley Grobler.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Decline in New Year’s Day birth rate: Health department reports 1 448 babies born on 1 January
The country's public health facilities recorded 1 448 births on the first day of 2025.
Continue ReadingNews24 | ‘No way’ forward for telecoms without doubling tariffs, says MTN Nigeria CEO
"There’s no way that [Nigeria's] industry could continue to sustain itself and provide the required quality of service under the present structure," said Karl Toriola, MTN Nigeria CEO, after telecommunications firms sought approval from the regulator.
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