Новости за 01.07.2024

A rural Eastern Cape health centre has had to close its doors at night because of crime and dry taps. But neither the local municipality, police or provincial health department say they're to blame.

Facing a daunting array of systemic issues, newly appointed Minister of Correctional Services Pieter Groenewald steps into a role burdened with severe challenges.

A broad rally in South African markets signaled investor relief after President Cyril Ramaphosa ended weeks of uncertainty by announcing a new cabinet that he said would prioritize economic growth.

In a move aimed at eliminating any potential conflict of interest arising from it owning and producing its own medicines, Clicks is selling its manufacturing subsidiary Unicorn Pharmaceuticals.

A Porterville farm manager has been stabbed to death in a predawn attack on Monday that saw a group of armed men storm and ransack the home he shared with his wife on the Tevrede farm in Porterville.

South Africa’s rand extended a post-election rally after President Cyril Ramaphosa announced a new cabinet that he said would prioritise rapid and sustainable growth.

A tremor was felt in Johannesburg in the early hours of Monday morning, less than 48 hours after the city felt a magnitude 3 earthquake on Saturday night.

President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the ministers and deputy ministers that will make up South Africa's new Government of National Unity on Sunday night. This is who has been appointed to lead SA's key economic portfolios.

A sustainable relationship between the ANC and the DA in government will depend on the former accepting the need to share power and the latter respecting the ANC's much larger mandate, writes Ryan Coetzee.

US rapper Kanye West was in Moscow for a private visit, Russian media reported on Sunday, quoting a well-known Russian producer.

DA leader John Steenhuisen has called on parties in the government of national unity to collaborate and desist from finger-pointing about the country’s problems.

Will South Africa coach Rassie Erasmus start with Handre Pollard or Manie Libbok at flyhalf for the highly anticipated first Test against Ireland in Pretoria on Saturday?

Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally (RN) party scored historic gains to win the first round of France's parliamentary election, but the final outcome will depend on days of alliance-building before next week's run-off vote.

Israel released the head of Gaza's biggest hospital, who had been detained for more than seven months, among dozens of Palestinian prisoners returned Monday to the besieged territory for treatment.

At the heart of the government's economic stimulus plans are major infrastructure projects. New minister, Dean Macpherson of the DA, has been tasked with a weighty portfolio.

Al Baraka Bank, South Africa’s only fully-fledged, commercial Islamic financial institution, has surged to the delivery of record financial results in the past financial year, ended 31 December 2023.

A Kenilworth doctor has been sentenced to an effective three years house arrest, while being ordered to pay back the R5 million proceeds he made after being found guilty of selling and distributing scheduled medications.

The critical security cluster ministries of police and defence – both bedevilled by a legacy of resource constraints and state capture – have new leadership in the form of Senzo Mchunu and Angie Motshekga.

News24 profiles the new deputy president and the ministers after President Cyril Ramaphosa announced his new government of national unity Cabinet on Sunday night

South African pop star Tyla won two Black Entertainment Television (BET) awards on Sunday in Los Angeles, California.

President Cyril Ramaphosa's decision to pull Senzo Mchunu out of the water and sanitation portfolio is a big blow to the sector.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has unveiled a bloated and dramatically reconfigured government of national unity Cabinet.

The GNU is an opportunity for all South Africans to work together more closely and with greater purpose to ensure that we build a South Africa for all, writes Cyril Ramaphosa in his weekly newsletter.

President Cyril Ramaphosa needs to change tack if his GNU Cabinet is to succeed, and keep his hands on the steering wheel instead of leaving it to ministers with loyalties elsewhere, including those in his own party, writes Natasha Marrian.

Siviwe Gwarube and her family were crushed on Saturday night when India beat South Africa at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup final. But on Sunday, it was a presumably different picture as she was appointed Minister of Basic Education.