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1 month ago | 
sabcnews.com | Horisani Sithole |Tshepo Phagane
Gauteng Finance and Economic Development MEC Lebogang Maile says more than 4600 certificates of acceptability have been issued to owners of food outlets including spaza shops. The documents have been issued since the registration deadline on Friday. They confirm the compliance of a business to basic food safety and hygiene requirements. Addressing a media briefing in Johannesburg today, Maile says only 128 permits have been issued to foreign nationals.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
sabcnews.com | Viola May |Tshepo Phagane
Advocacy group, Section27, has called on government to build more schools in an effort to resolve learner placement issues. This comes as many Gauteng parents queue at education district offices this morning hoping to secure school placements for their children. Since the inception of the online school registration system in 2016, learner placements have been a major point of concern as many end up without a school in the new year despite having applied before the deadline.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
sabcnews.com | Tshepo Phagane
Social media personality Musa Khawula is expected back in the Randburg District Court in Johannesburg on Tuesday next week for a formal bail application. The 33-year-old appeared in the same court yesterday facing Crimen Injuria, Contravention of the Cyber Crimes Act and Hate Speech charges. The accused is alleged to have posted derogatory statements on social media in October last year against businessman Zee Nxumalo.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
sabcnews.com | Tshepo Phagane
A truck driver has died after two trucks collided on the N12 eastbound between Edenvale Road on ramp and Kraft Road off ramp in Edenvale in Ekurhuleni. Emergency services personnel say one truck had been stationery before it was hit from behind by another truck. The stationery truck driver escaped with no injuries. Ekurhuleni Emergency Services spokesperson William Ntladi has urged motorists to use alternative routes.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
sabcnews.com | Tshepo Phagane
Police have arrested five suspects including late former President Nelson Mandela’s grandchild for possession of a hijacked vehicle and an unlicensed firearm. The vehicle was recovered at Mandela’s former home in Houghton, Johannesburg. Johannesburg Metro Police received information regarding the location of a white Toyota Corolla that was hijacked along Louis Botha Avenue earlier on Wednesday.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
sabcnews.com | Tshepo Phagane
The City of Johannesburg Emergency Services has confirmed that only one person was extracted from the rubble of a collapsed building in Lenasia, south of Johannesburg, Tuesday night. Initial reports suggested that a second person might have been trapped under the debris. However, Johannesburg EMS spokesperson Nana Radebe states that eyewitness accounts confirmed only one person was inside the building during the incident. The rescued individual was taken to a nearby medical facility for treatment.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
sabcnews.com | Tshepo Phagane
Johannesburg’s City Power says all its vending prepaid customers had their meters recoded ahead of last night’s deadline. The power utility says its teams will be on the ground from today assisting customers with replacing and installing new meters. City Power says it has already pre-generated key change tokens for non-buying customers. Spokesperson Isaac Mangena says,”All vending pre-paid customers had their meters recoded ahead of the deadline.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
sabcnews.com | Tshepo Phagane
Anti-immigrant group, Operation Dudula says it is heading to court to compel the government to shut down all shops until they are registered. All food handling facilities including spaza shops must be registered with municipalities by the 13th of next month or risk closure. More than 20 children have died from suspected food poisoning in the past months. Five-year-old Siyabonga Mnisi from Diepkloof in Soweto was buried today.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
sabcnews.com | Tshepo Phagane
Five-year-old, Siyabonga Mnisi, who died on Wednesday of a suspected food-borne illness has been laid to rest. Mourners gathered at his home in Diepkloof, Soweto to bid him farewell on Sunday. The Grade R learner from Dumezweni Primary School fell ill after consuming snacks allegedly bought from a local spaza shop. Siyabonga Mnisi’s mother, Thandeka Ndalimane, still cannot believe her son is no more. Ndalimane described the little boy as a bubbly and a sweet child, who was forever smiling.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
sabcnews.com | Tshepo Phagane
Residents of Diepkloof in Soweto will this morning bid farewell to five-year-old Siyabonga Mnisi who died from suspected food poisoning. The Grade R learner at Dumezweni Primary School fell ill on Wednesday after consuming snacks allegedly bought from a local spaza shop. Three of his schoolmates and friends also fell ill and all the children were taken to Chris Hani Baragwanath hospital where Mnisi died.
