South Africa

President Cyril Ramaphosa has wished the matric Class of 2024 well for the National Senior Certificate (NSC) examinations.

The South African Weather Service (SAWS) has issued alerts for heavy rain and flooding over parts of the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal.

Water and Sanitation Deputy Minister, Sello Seitlholo has conducted a site inspection of the Vaalharts Main Canal in Hartswater in the Northern Cape following the drowning of a 13-year-old boy.

The Department of Health has rebuffed claims that government is neglecting the issue of children dying from suspected food poisoning.

According to the department, the National Joint Operational and Intelligence Structure (NATJOINTS) is currently treating the recent spate of deaths as a national security threat. 

“These increasing incidents in black communities have led to an unfortunate and unsubstantiated perception that authorities are turning a blind eye to this crisis, and seem not to care about what’s happening to citizens. 

Deputy Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Narend Singh, will lead the South African delegation to the 16th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (UNCBD COP 16) in Cali, Colombia.

Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube and Gauteng MEC for Education, Matome Chiloane, are monitoring the start of the 2024 NSC Exams in Soshanguve East Secondary School in Tshwane.

Detectives attached to the Western Cape Provincial Serious and Violent Crimes Unit are probing the circumstances that led to the death of three males aged 27, 30 and 34 and the attempted murder of a 14-year-old male on Sunday at around 17:00 in Seine Street in Delft.

Collaboration between South African Police Service (SAPS) units has secured the arrest of a foreign national and the confiscation of counterfeit goods with an estimated value of R48 634.

With just hours to go before the first paper in the 2024 National Senior Certificate examinations is written, Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube says the department is ready to administer the examinations.

The Eastern Cape Provincial Police Commissioner, Lieutenant General Nomthetheleli Mene, has mobilised all available resources to find the perpetrators behind the killing of five people in Bityi, near Mthatha, on Friday.