Author: staff
The City of Cape Town’s safety and security directorate has urged residents to report people and businesses selling cough syrup and other medication to children, warning that the practice is fuelling substance abuse among those as young as seven.
The health department plans to make the twice-a-year anti-HIV jab, lenacapavir, available at more than 300 government health districts with high HIV infection rates between April 2026 and March 2028. By April 2027, the department anticipates that it could start to use government money to buy cheaper generics.
Old images of Cape Town taxi violence are being recycled online and falsely linked to recent unrest in Johannesburg. Posts claiming a teenager lost 18 taxis to arson are misleading – the pictures actually show fires from earlier this year in Nyanga.
The “wounded” ANC in KwaZulu-Natal is likely to punish several of its councillors in at least two municipalities where they either abstained or boycotted special council meetings that saw their mayors facing motions of no-confidence from the opposition parties.
The highly anticipated start of the Madlanga inquiry – tasked with investigating KwaZulu-Natal police chief Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi’s allegations of criminal infiltration of South Africa’s justice system – will not go ahead on 1 September.
AmaZulu King Misuzulu kaZwelithini has appointed MK Party KwaZulu-Natal chairperson Willies Mchunu, retired judge Mjabuliseni Madondo, former minister S’bu Ndebele and others as part of a team that will handle traditional leadership disputes in KwaZulu-Natal.
Grandparenting from afar, thanks to emigration, is marked by an emotional shift, challenges, and creative strategies South African grandparents employ to bridge the gap caused by this disruption to traditional intergenerational bonds.
First, Operation Dudula told the foreign nationals to “go back home”. Now, a group of Operation Dudula and MK Party members in Stutterheim are telling residents of the former Transkei region to “go back home”, accusing them of taking their jobs at the ANC-led Amahlathi Local Municipality.
Ndiviwe Mphothulo started in politics at the age of 12 in Soweto, where he was born with activism in his bloodline. Now a medical doctor and the president of the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society, he’s trying to make sure the Trump administration’s funding cuts don’t collapse South Africa’s HIV programmes.
Frustration boiled over as the culpable homicide case against Martha van der Walt, accused of fatally driving over 15-year-old Pretty Mahlangu during a Zulu cultural ceremony, was postponed in the Germiston Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday.