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(Photo: Christine Oelofse/Maroela Media) Diesel will become even more expensive on Wednesday; more than R6 per liter more expensive. The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy announced the new fuel prices on Monday and, as expected, the price of diesel rose sharply again. The increases will take effect at midnight on Wednesday. The price of diesel (0.05% and 0.005% sulfur content) will then shoot up by R6.19 per litre. The price of petrol is also rising, but at least not as sharply as diesel. The department says the price of 93-octane and 95-octane petrol will rise by R3.27/litre on Wednesday.…
Deaths due to gang violence included people hit by stray bullets, cases of mistaken identity by the shooter, and relatives of targeted gang members.Published On 4 May 20264 May 2026Twenty-three innocent bystanders have been killed and 30 wounded in gangland shootings in Sweden over the past three years, according to statistics that highlight the country’s battle to rein in violent crime.Sweden has struggled for more than a decade to contain gang violence linked primarily to score-settling and battles to control the drug market. The innocent victims include people hit by stray bullets, cases of mistaken identity, and relatives of targeted…
Mzamo Buthelezi, Minister of Public Service and Administration. (Photo: X/CPSI South Africa) The DA has requested the chairman of the parliamentary portfolio committee on public service and administration to urgently summon Mzamo Buthelezi, minister of public service and administration, to account for the “shocking misuse of public funds”. This follows media reports that around R800 million of taxpayers’ money is spent annually on the salaries of hundreds of suspended civil servants. Many of them have been sitting at home for years while their cases languish unfinished. Sunday Times reported earlier that a deputy director in the department of women, youth…
(Photo: Provided) The state insists on control, but lacks the capacity to carry it out. The breakout points to that gap. Farmers are the first line of defence, but are treated as spectators in a crisis they are supposed to manage. FMD spreads quickly; bureaucracy does not – and South Africa pays the price. This is no longer just an agricultural crisis, but a test of whether the state can act quickly, with trust and shared responsibility. South Africa’s struggle to stop the spread of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) points to a deeper problem than just the outbreak itself: It points…
THE Roman Catholic Church has mourned the death of Father Sipho Petros Kunene, 58 (OMI), one of the church’s pastors.It is a country At the weekend found out that Father Kunene had an accident on his way from Pietermaritzburg to Durban last week.Father Kunene had been under the organization of this church called The Missionary Mary Immaculate (OMI).This is a movement that focuses on Maria. According to the findings of this newspaper, the party is very scared about these news.Ever since the news of his death was heard, there has been a lot of mourning, especially among the members of…
Pres. Cyril Ramaphosa during his visit to Pres. Emmerson Mnangagwa from Zimbabwe’s farm. (Photo: Presidency/X)Pres. Cyril Ramaphosa’s unofficial visit to Pres. Emmerson Mnangagwa from Zimbabwe’s private residence over the weekend raised eyebrows. Mnangagwa received Ramaphosa on Sunday at his farm in Zimbabwe.The visit comes amid the controversial proposed constitutional amendment that would allow Mnangagwa to serve longer as president of Zimbabwe – longer than the Zimbabwean constitution currently allows.The DA also condemned Ramaphosa’s visit to a “dictator”.”As a member of the Government of National Unity (GNE), the DA rejects the ANC’s attempts to openly fraternize with neighboring dictators and deny…
Seven people died and many were injured after a horrific accident between a taxi and a bus on a busy Eastern Cape road, Monday morning.The spokesperson for the Department of Transport, Mr. Unathi Binqose, said that the accident happened at around 6 a.m. when a taxi full of workers from KwaNobuhle was heading to the city, and it is suspected that it tried to turn directly in front of the Algoa bus, which had only the driver at the time.”18 people were treated at the scene of the accident. Two were seriously injured, others received bruises and were taken to…
Archive photo of OR Tambo Airport (Photo: Shutterstock)The Department of Health is appealing for calm after two foreigners who are suspected to have contracted the hanta virus on a passenger ship in the Atlantic Ocean, have already entered South Africa ill.The one, a British citizen, is in a critical condition in isolation in a private hospital in Sandton.The second, a Dutch woman, died in Kempton Park, after she tried to catch a flight to the Netherlands at the OR Tambo international airport and then collapsed.The department now says it is working with the provincial department of health in Gauteng and…
A VETERAN in DJing, DJ Tira, has challenged young artists in the field of art to work hard where they are based, not to look and not to tell themselves that they need to move to Johannesburg to be successful.DJ Tira said so while accepting the Best Kwaito award he won for his song You don’t know me. He sang this song with PCee, Campmasters and General Simamane at the Metro FM Music Awards in ICC, Durban, last weekend.By winning this award, Tira beat Dladla Mshunqisi and BeastRSA with their song Drive DriveDJ Lag, Zee Nxumalo and KC Driller for…
New Delhi, India – Seema Das, a househelp in New Delhi, took on a two-day journey to reach her village in India’s West Bengal state, changing trains to make sure she got home in time to vote in provincial elections.Das had previously always voted for the All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) party under Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, a centrist political force that has been in power in the eastern Indian state since 2011. But this time, she said, her mother-in-law had convinced her that “Didi” – a nickname for Banerjee, which translates to elder sister in Bangla – “favours Muslims”.Das,…