Nicki Minaj coming to SA in March
NICKI MINAJ Picture: Bang Showbiz Tickets will go on sale on Thursday(28/01/2016) for the three South African dates for hip hop singer Nicki Minaj’s Pinkprint Tour. She’ll be opening the local leg at...
View ArticleDA’s march for jobs gathers pace in downtown Johannesburg
Thousands of DA supporters have gathered in the Johannesburg CBD ahead of the #DAforJobs march. Picture: MPHO RABORIFE Thousands of Democratic Alliance members have gathered at Westgate station in...
View ArticleWATCH: Disappearing number plate
This video shows a Gauteng BMW equipped with a mechanism that allows it to hide its front and rear number plates – a mechanism that is definitely illegal. According to BusinessTech, Metro police say...
View ArticleCop probed after domestic dispute
A NELSON Mandela Bay police warrant officer is under investigation for allegedly firing four shots into his Walmer Heights townhouse ceiling before threatening to kill himself and his girlfriend. The...
View Article5FM in hot water over radio sex talk
EXPLICIT sex talk and offensive songs on the radio are a big no-no for parents. The Broadcasting Complaints Commission of SA ruled recently on three different cases involving radio station 5FM in...
View ArticleFifth day of panic for St Francis residents
PATH OF DESTRUCTION: A helicopter hovers over the previously lush but now fire-ravaged bush in Cape St Francis yesterday on the fifth day of blazes Picture: RIAAN MARAIS Exhausted Cape St Francis...
View ArticleRhodes chosen as world centre
RHODES University in Grahamstown has been chosen as a world centre to develop climate-change education aimed at preparing for the future – and has been awarded R13-million to carry out the pioneering...
View ArticleGreenwood land sale ‘in school’s best interests’
MICHAEL RANDELL A FORMER Eastern Cape attorney said he had acted in the best interests of the school’s educational purposes before he and two others allegedly defrauded Greenwood Primary of more than...
View ArticleNgqezana quits as metro buys him out of contract
LIKHAYA NGQEZANA NELSON Mandela Bay mayoral adviser Likhaya Ngqezana has been bought out of his contract, effectively ending months of negotiations for him to leave the municipality. Ngqezana, hired to...
View ArticleCaring KwaNobuhle residents start private clinic initiative in RDP home
Glad Menziwa (Clinical Manager); Mabele Mtubeli and Nandipha Alwyn (enrolled nurse) at the house in Peace Valley, Kwanobuhle where they using a RDP house as a clinic. Picture: BRIAN WITBOOI FROM the...
View ArticleTop brass visit Bay aged on National Police Day
ALL SMILES: Police Minister Nathi Nhleko, centre, visited elderly Bay residents including those from Elizabeth Stuurman Old Age Home on National Police Day yesterday. With him, on the right, is Bella...
View ArticleSt Francis Fires: latest news
Cape St Francis and St Francis Bay residents have been requested to stay calm as more Working on Fire crews and fire fighters from Koukamma and Ndlambe municipalities will be focusing on fires that may...
View ArticleLocal photographer captures dramatic St Francis fires
Local photographer Chris Scott beautifully captured these pictures of the scenes of exhaustion and tension that played out in Cape St Francis yesterday after veld fires flared up again, causing a fifth...
View ArticleCouncil recommends Roberts be fired for slur
By majority, the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality council today recommended that Councillor Chris Roberts be fired and that the recommendation should be ratified by Eastern Cape Local Government MEC...
View ArticleFirefighters attacked at blaze
THREE Nelson Mandela Bay firefighters were attacked and almost stabbed while extinguishing a bushfire near the Marina Sea Salt works in Perseverance, between Port Elizabeth and Uitenhage, yesterday....
View ArticleSearch on for 36 stolen calves
THE Stock Theft Unit in Jeffreys Bay is appealing to the community to assist them with information that could lead to the recovery of 36 friesland calves that were stolen in the Kareedouw area. It is...
View ArticleSarb hikes interest rate by 50bps
South African Reserve Bank (Sarb) governor Lesetja Kganyago on Thursday announced a 50 basis-point increase in the repo rate to 6.75%, in line with the consensus for a 50 basis-point hike. This means...
View ArticleTwo arrested following house robbery
MDANTSANE SAPS members yesterday nabbed three suspects, aged between 23 and 27 years old, outside East London, following a house robbery. The arrest follows an incident which occurred during the night...
View ArticleBrother gets 18 years for raping eight-year-old sister
A Mpumalanga man accused of repeatedly raping his eight-year-old sister after their mother died has been sentenced to 18 years imprisonment. The 26-year-old man from Pienaar near Mbombela, who may not...
View ArticleWATCH: Senior citizen robbed in broad daylight
Watch CCTV footage of thieves gaining access to a 76-year-old senior citizen’s house situated in Morningside, KwaZulu-Natal. The thieves made off with jewellery, a flatscreen TV & Samsung Galaxy...
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