Author: Silver Sibiya
The cream of the crop was hosted by Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga this morning at Constantia Kloof. Mthokozisi Gongo from Ixopo in Kwa-Zulu Natal who wants to study medicine in that province said load shedding was one of the challenges he faced but he conquered. “I’m feeling very happy. I’m lost for words, I’m speechless,” he quipped. “I was doing Physical Science, Life Science, Mathematics, Languages and Life Orientation. I was living away from home and when there was load shedding we couldn’t walk at night to study at the school. “Sometimes I didn’t have enough food and those…
However, the businesses accused the power utility of overbilling because it uses faulty metres to determine the amount of electricity used by the entities. One of the businesses whose services were disconnected, is the Catalyst Hotel in Sandton. The hotel General Manager Robert Chifunyise blamed the incorrect meter box for not paying his bills. “We hired so many consultants trying to figure this out that we have paid in the past. We have documents to prove that we have paid over R3 million in the last year. “We pay R600 000 a month as much as we dispute the money…
There has been a 13,9% decrease in road fatalities during the festive season with 1 451 deaths on our roads during the 2022 Festive Season, according to Minister of Transport Fikile Mbalula who was briefing the media on road traffic statistics at Grasmere N1 Toll Plaza in Joburg today. However in Gauteng, there was a 5,5% increase in the number of deaths on the road, from 275 to 290 while there was a marked drop from 119 to 94 fatalities reported in the North West Province, a 21% decrease. “The period under review saw a total of 1451 people losing…
The case between President Cyril Ramaphosa and his predecessor former president Jacob Zuma has been reserved for judgment on Monday. The matter was heard by a full bench of judges at Johannesburg High Court on yesterday/. Ramaphosa’s lawyer argued that Zuma is unlawfully trying to prosecute the president by not properly following the Constitution. Ramaphosa is trying to interdict criminal proceedings instituted by Zuma in December wherein the former president is accusing the current president of failing to act when asked to do so after Advocate Billy Downer of National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) allegedly leaked his medical records to journalist…
Many parts of inland schools were still battling with placement and scrambling to put learners in classes on the first day of the start of the 2023 academic year. Parents and scores of learners were left frustrated and in the cold while others were excited and relieved that their children were placed in classes. Minister Motshekga went around monitoring some of the schools in Cosmo City and in Diepsloot today and confirmed to Newsnote that overcrowding was a big issue but defended the much-maligned Gauteng’s online registration system for primary and high school amid criticism from some parents. “Overcrowding it’s…
One of the 12 nurses who died when the petroleum tanker exploded near the Tambo Memorial Hospital in Boksburg on Christmas Eve, killing 37 people so far, was not supposed to be at work on that fateful morning. This emerge at the healing service held yesterday at the Boksburg Civic Centre where the Nehawu Gauteng Provincial chairperson Sello Mafela told mourners, families and hospital staff that 41-year-old Kgothatso Magopane who was working at the neonatal ward, was working overtime money to take care of her family. “People died heartbroken. This is about a worker who voluntarily said ‘can I come…
The interdict application brought by President Cyril Ramaphosa against criminal proceedings instituted by his predecessor Jacob Zuma, has been moved to Thursday for arguments.Zuma has filed an opposing affidavit in response to the urgent application by Ramaphosa that was supposed to be heard on Tuesday.Zuma took Ramaphosa to court last month on the eve of the ANC Elective Conference in Nasrec, accusing him of failing to act when asked to do so after Advocate Billy Downer allegedly leaked his medical records to journalist Karyn Maughan.Zuma accused Maughan and Downer, who is leading the former president’s prosecution on long standing fraud…
Family and friends paid tribute to four siblings – Gerrie, Adrian, Sebastian Brits and Jamel Eales – who died in the tragic Christmas Eve Boksburg truck gas explosion that has so far claimed 37 lives. The siblings whose ages ranged between nine and 16 were laid to rest yesterday at a Boksburg cemetery. Mourners in a funeral held in Thrive Church, Boksburg described the children as joyful and loving and while their mother Rossetta Brits, with tears streaming down her cheeks, talked about all her children one by one. “I just want to tell you guys how these children lived…
Scores of people including healthcare workers from the Tambo Memorial Hospital in Boksburg were killed and others badly injured, when the tanker carrying Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) got stuck under a bridge and exploded on Christmas Eve. Part of the hospital was damaged, some houses caught fire and rais infrastructure was also blown up in the explosion. According to the Gauteng Health Department the number of fatalities now stands at 37, with additional body parts found around the area of the incident. Of the 37 people that have died, 12 are healthcare workers (10 government employees and two agency staff),…
Following a Newsnote expose, various City of Joburg departments are investigating allegations that trucks transporting hazardous material are parked in the middle of a residential area, Glen Austin in Midrand posing a threat to the lives of the residents including primary school pupils. The Joburg Metro Police Department (JMPD) , Joburg Emergency Services (EMS) and the Joburg Fire Department have promised to look into the allegations first exposed in a social media post by Glen Austin Residents Association chairperson John Mpatshoe. Mpatshoe also raised concerns about the storage of hazardous petroleum products in a residential area which posed a danger…