Author name: Scott Balson

Schooling was disrupted in Thabo Mofutsanaya District Municipality, Free State, when hundreds of South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU) members took to the streets on Thursday. SADTU is demanding that Lindiwe Mabaso, the district director, resign, saying their relationship has broken down irreparably. They say a litany of grievances raised in 2022 have not been […]

The Cape Town City Council has approved the sale of the “Fruit and Veg” site in the city centre for social housing. This comes eight years after municipal land, between Kent and Bloemhof Streets on the border of District Six, was first earmarked for affordable housing. The city council gave in-principle approval for the land

    Barney Pityana, chairperson of the National Lotteries Commission, has tendered his resignation with two years of his five-year tenure remaining. Illustration: Lisa Nelson Barney Pityana has tendered his resignation to Minister Parks Tau. His reason for leaving early is unclear. His appointment in 2022 was marked by political and legal battles for two

An 18-year-old male was robbed by four (4) suspects who were fleeing the scene of a business robbery in Waterloo – KZN this afternoon (Thursday). Two (2) of the suspects were armed with firearms. According to the victim, the men approached and held him at gunpoint. They pistol whipped him before depriving him of his

The police in , under Sekhukhune District, have arrested a 31-year-old scholar transport driver following a horrific accident that occurred on Wednesday, 20 August 2025, at about 15:20 along the R555 road next to Marikana Village in Roossenekal. Police received a complaint about a motor vehicle accident, and upon arrival at the scene, they found

While conducting crime prevention duties around Vereeniging, members of the Gauteng Traffic Police and Gauteng Traffic Wardens STT (Southern Corridor) spotted a suspicious vehicle with three occupants. The vehicle was stopped and searched, and the driver was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol. In a separate incident, officers noticed a vehicle being driven

Protesters continued to block Swartklip Road in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, with burning tyres on Friday. The protests started on Wednesday after Eskom and law enforcement officials removed illegal electricity connections from a substation at Area L sewage pump station in New Monwabisi Park, Khayelitsha. Community leader Donavan Koopman said cars and shacks were broken into

The Gauteng Education Department has reaffirmed its policy that it will provide state-funded scholar transport only outside of designated school feeder zones under “exceptional circumstances.” This declaration comes in response to a sit-in protest staged by frustrated parents from Holy Trinity Secondary School at the Tshwane West Education District offices. The parents are demanding the

In a significant move to address widespread service delivery failures and allegations of graft, the African National Congress (ANC) in the Free State has announced it will replace mayors in at least six municipalities. The decision follows intense internal pressure and public outcry over the crumbling state of local governance in the province. Provincial Secretary

National Police Commissioner General Fannie Masemola has publicly declined to comment on the impending High Court battle with suspended Crime Detection head, Lieutenant General Shadrack Sibiya. The Commissioner’s refusal to engage on the issue came during a media briefing on the sidelines of a drug destruction operation in Gauteng on Tuesday. This event followed the