Trump announces new 10% global tariff after raging over Supreme Court loss

U.S. President Donald Trump LAST NIGHT moved swiftly to replace tariffs struck down by the Supreme Court with a temporary 10% global import duty for 150 days and ordered new investigations under other laws that could allow him to re-impose the tariffs. He lambasted the justices who rejected his tra…

Hope fades for trapped Ekapa miners

Hope to locate and rescue the five trapped miners at Ekapa Minerals Mine in Kimberly while still alive are diminishing by the day. This follows a mudslide incident in the early hours Tuesday morning nearly 900 metres underground. Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister, Gwede Mantashe, says there …

R175 million Armed Forces Day budget raises eyebrows

The annual Armed Forces Day aimed at commemorating the sinking of the SS Mendi on 21 February 1917 is expected to take place today in Thohoyandou Limpopo. The SS Mendi is deemed one of South Africa's worst tragedies of the First World War, with the death of 646 troops, all belonging to the SA Nativ…

Acting police minister concerned by 'unacceptably high crime stats'

Acting Police Minister Firoz Cachalia says the murder rate decreased by eight point seven  percent between October and December last year compared to the previous year.  He was speaking during the release of third quarter crime statistics in Pretoria. Cachalia says despite this, crime levels in the…

Public sector unions take to the streets over increasing medical costs

FEDUSA trade unions represented in the Public Service Coordinating Burgaining Council, together with the South African Police Union (SAPU) are expected to lead a protest march TODAY to the offices of the Government's Employees Medical Scheme's head office in Pretoria. This follows the implementatio…

SAPU to hold national dialogue to declare GBV / Femicide National Moral Disaster

The South African Policing Union, SAPU, together with philosopher Professor Motsamai Molefe, will today hold a national dialogue in Pretoria to declare gender-based violence and femicide a National Moral Disaster. The event builds on President Ramaphosa's previous call to treat GBV and femicide as …

4 of the 19 trapped in Russia arrives back in South Africa

Four of the 19 men who were trapped in Russia have arrived back in South Africa. In November last year, the government received distress calls from 17 of the men, who were believed to have been lured to Russia with promises of lucrative jobs before reportedly being placed in a military‑training pro…

Former Public Protector challenges Shadrack Sibiya's testimony at the Madlanga Commission

Suspended Deputy National Commissioner Shadrack Sibiya told the Madlanga Commission that former Public Protector Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane had cleared him and the City of Joburg of wrongdoing over his appointment as head of Group Forensic Investigation Services. But Mkhwebane's 2022 report, poste…

DA Gauteng leader to deliver party's alternative True State of the Province address

DA Gauteng leader Solly Msimanga will today deliver the party's alternative True State of the Province Address. Msimanga, joined by DA MPLs and councillors province-wide, will highlight ongoing service delivery failures plaguing the province. Elvis Presslin spoke to Member of Provincial Legislature…

COSATU in KZN condemns collapse of business rescue process at Tongaat Hulett

Trade union federation COSATU in KwaZulu-Natal has strongly condemned the collapse of the business rescue process at sugar producer Tongaat Hulett. The company's administrators last week applied to the High Court to end rescue proceedings and move to provisional liquidation, after key sale agreemen…