Siyanda Mthethwa

2 weeks ago | theherald.co.za | Siyanda Mthethwa |Lulamile Feni

At least eight bodies have been recovered after a school bus was swept away by floods near Mthatha in the Eastern Cape, officials said on Wednesday. South Africa has been lashed by heavy rain and snow since the weekend, in a severe winter cold front which disrupted transport and power networks. “It is a sad thing and the search is still going on,” Eastern Cape community safety official Xolile Nqatha told Newzroom Afrika.

2 weeks ago | businesslive.co.za | Siyanda Mthethwa |Sfundo Parakozov |Tim Cocks

The death toll from floods in SA’s Eastern Cape province has risen to 49, the head of the province said on Wednesday. Parts of SA have been lashed by heavy rain and snow since the weekend, in a severe winter cold front that has disrupted transport and power networks. “The status has escalated to 49 (deaths),” Eastern Cape premier Oscar Mabuyane told a press conference. Earlier, a school bus was swept away by floods near Mthatha and a provincial safety official said eight bodies were recovered.

2 weeks ago | sowetanlive.co.za | Siyanda Mthethwa |Lulamile Feni

At least eight bodies have been recovered after a school bus was swept away by floods near Mthatha in the Eastern Cape, officials said on Wednesday. South Africa has been lashed by heavy rain and snow since the weekend, in a severe winter cold front which disrupted transport and power networks. “It is a sad thing and the search is still going on,” Eastern Cape community safety official Xolile Nqatha told Newzroom Afrika.

1 month ago | theherald.co.za | Colleen Goko |Siyanda Mthethwa |Rodrigo Campos |Nic Bothma

The drawn-out budget saga was a painful episode for finance minister Enoch Godongwana and the government of national unity, its first significant attempt at a governing coalition in the country's 30-year history as a multiracial democracy. For investors, the spectacle of President Cyril Ramaphosa's fraught Oval Office encounter with US counterpart Donald Trump was little more than a sideshow.

1 month ago | businesslive.co.za | Tim Cocks |Nellie Peyton |Siyanda Mthethwa |Milan Pavicic

SA has one of the world’s highest murder rates, with an average of 72 a day, in a country of 60-million people. Most victims are black. SA police recorded 26,232 murders nationwide in 2024, of which 44 were linked to farming communities. Of those, eight of the victims were farmers. The Western Cape High Court ruled that claims of white genocide were “clearly imagined and not real” in a case earlier this year, forbidding a donation to a white supremacist group on those grounds.