Author: staff
After years of closure Joburgers will finally be able to return to the Johannesburg City Central library. The long-awaited opening is part of the metro’s ongoing plans to upgrade and rejuvenate iconic buildings and open spaces within the CBD.
A lawyer who killed three people in a cocaine-fuelled car crash and a Moja Love “expert” are among the 59 legal practitioners convicted of stealing trust funds from their clients in the past seven years, the Legal Practitioners Fidelity Fund (LPFF) has revealed.
From an effective shell company valued at just R193 million eight years ago, Vukile Property Fund’s Iberian subsidiary Castellana Properties has evolved into a top five shopping centre landlord in Spain and Portugal with more than 1.6 billion euros (about R34 billion) in assets.
US President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff plans battered global markets again on Monday after he said foreign governments would have to pay “a lot of money” to get the levies removed, while US stocks got a brief lift on hints of a pause, only to slide again.
Mercedes-Benz has announced the recall of some GLEs sold in SA due to potential “unexpected” loss of power that may cause accidents. The recall covers vehicles produced between 2022 and 2025. The luxury SUVs retail for around R2 million each.
The knives are out for Limpopo Premier Phophi Ramathuba, it seems. This as an ANC faction supporting Polokwane Mayor John Mpe seeks to take over when provincial chairperson Stan Mathabatha steps down next year, according to party insiders.
Conventional thinking held that enclosed spaces where people spent long periods of time together, were where most TB transmission took place. But new data suggests that casual contact at social settings like shopping malls, restaurants, bars, and places of worship also account for much TB transmission.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky did not recently buy a controlling stake in South Africa’s Northam Platinum Mine – despite a viral video, an X post, and, before all of that, an article in a Zimbabwean newspaper attempting to say otherwise.
A company run by a Johannesburg ANC branch member and bosom buddy of Gauteng Health MEC Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko scored a R2.5-million tender from the latter’s department just months after the business was deregistered and hastily returned to trading.
Former teacher and principal Martin Kotze, who killed himself after he was accused of sexually grooming young boys and sending them explicit material of himself, admitted guilt to similar offences in a school disciplinary hearing – and he was about to be arrested again on charges relating to those incidents.