News South Africa Gauteng: South African soldiers dismantle illegal mining operations near Johannesburg as miners flee
South African soldiers deployed in the country’s high-crime areas have dismantled illegal mining operations Johannesburg.
News South Africa Gauteng: Searching for lost lives: S.Africa's unidentified corpses
At Olifantsvlei cemetery on the outskirts of southern Johannesburg, undertakers clad in white plastic overalls, boots and face masks take on a grim task: mass pauper burials. The routine is a sombre reminder of South Africa's perennial failure to identify many corpses. At the busiest mortuaries
News South Africa Gauteng: South Africa's Ramaphosa Seeks Judicial Review of Graft Watchdog's Allegations
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday said he will seek an urgent judicial review of what he described as an irretrievably flawed report in which the country's graft watchdog said he misled parliament over a campaign donation.
News South Africa Gauteng: South Africa's president responds to critical report
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa ... his legal team to immediately launch a judicial review of the report. The report by South Africa's public protector, a constitutionally ...
News South Africa Gauteng: South African aiming to be 1st black African in space dies
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Mandla Maseko ... "He broke new ground by being the first black president in South Africa ... that was inspiration for me," said Maseko. Although the space flight didn't take place ...
News South Africa Gauteng: FEATURE-No papers but a home: Somali women take on South Africa's property market
In the hallway of a large, brick-face apartment block in Johannesburg, Halima Jawahir greets her tenants, a group of six Somali women drying their henna-painted hands in the sunlight streaming through the windows. After fleeing ongoing civil war in her native Somalia in 2016, Jawahir is now reinventing
News South Africa Gauteng: South Africa's economy plummets by most in a decade
JOHANNESBURG — South Africa's economy dropped by the largest amount in a decade, the government announced on Tuesday, hurting newly elected President Cyril Ramaphosa's efforts at growth and reforms. ...
News South Africa Gauteng: South Africa: Gauteng Education Department Asks SAPS to Monitor Forest High School, Following Fatal Stabbing
The Gauteng Department of Education says it has requested the police to closely monitor the area around Forest High School in Turffontein, Johannesburg. This after a 16-year-old Grade 10 pupil was ...
News South Africa Gauteng: Leopard kills toddler in S.Africa's Kruger park
Johannesburg (AFP) - A leopard killed a two-year-old boy inside a fenced-off staff compound at South Africa's Kruger national park, officials said Thursday. "The toddler was only 30-months-old," the ...
News South Africa Gauteng: South Africa's ANC insists policy on central bank role has not changed
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) said on Thursday its policy on the role and independence of the central bank had not changed, following a public ...
