NEW: ‘Boozing While Driving Remains A Serious Problem’

Pressure group South Africans Against Drunk Driving (SADD) is concerned there’s still a lack of appreciation among many motorists for the dangers linked to drunk driving.

At least 15 people have been killed on Western Cape roads since Christmas.


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NEW: Criminals target computers at Durban licensing station

Criminals targeted a licensing station over the weekend in Umbilo, Durban, stealing its computers.

Transport, Community Safety and Liaison MEC Willies Mchunu lashed out at the perpetrators on Monday.

"It is quite disturbing to note the extent of the greed and audacity of the thieves, who show no care about plundering the services of the nation," Mchunu said in a statement.


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NEW: Durban Great White shark attack survivor tells his story

Grant Wardell, a Durban North man who went fishing about 1.2km offshore of Westbrook Beach, north of Durban, says he is thankful to be alive after a 3-metre-long Great White shark catapulted him from his paddle ski boat and left a shark tooth in the boat as memoir!

Despite being toppled from his paddle ski by the force of the attack on Boxing Day, Wardell miraculously survived unscathed, he told Traveller24.

He said he and his bother Jamie had gone out fishing early on Saturday morning, 26 December. "We were using live bait that we trawled behind our surf skis," he said.



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NEW: Traffic Authorities Put Heads Together To Keep Carnage Down

Traffic authorities will now take a stronger stance when dealing with drivers who are not adhering to the rules of the road this festive season.

Officials from across the country held an urgent meeting in Johannesburg yesterday to come up with ways to try and reduce road deaths.


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NEW: Adele quits drinking alcohol

British star Adele has revealed she's quit drinking alcohol in a bid to save her singing voice.

The 27-year-old star - who released her third studio album, titled 25, earlier this year - has revealed she's heeded the advice of doctors by deciding to give up drinking.

According to the Daily Mirror newspaper, she said: ''I am not allowed to drink as it dehydrates my vocal chords. Alcohol blocks your ears when you get drunk and you get lairy, which makes you talk louder. I might raise my voice and my voice might go again.''


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NEW: King Dalindyebo's bail extended

AbaThembu King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo will be spending Christmas with his family after his bail conditions were extended until December 30 by the Mthatha High Court on Wednesday afternoon.

Dalindyebo's lawyers apparently went into the judge's chambers on Wednesday at 15:00 and emerged two hours later with the ruling.


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NEW: North Korean diplomat expelled from SA for rhino horn trafficking

A high-ranking North Korean diplomat accused of abusing his diplomatic immunity and his embassy’s diplomatic bag to smuggle rhino horn out of South Africa has been expelled from the country.

News24 has learnt that Park Chol-jun – also identified in some news reports as Pak Chol Chun - quietly left the country on December 11.

A spokesperson for the Department of International Relations and Co-operation (Dirco), Nelson Kgwete, did not name Park, but confirmed on Tuesday that the department had been "informed by the embassy" that "the official has returned" to North Korea.


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NEW: DA Calls For SAA's Dudu Myeni To Be Sacked

There’ve been calls for South African Airways (SAA) board chairperson Dudu Myeni to be sacked after National Treasury endorsed an Airbus deal that will see the national carrier save $100 million.

The announcement for the SAA board to approve the swap transaction came late last night.

It means five airbus carriers will be leased instead of 10 being bought from the French company.


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NEW: Meet the EFF MP who refuses to speak English in Parliament

"Many holes have been dug in English," says Economic Freedom Fighters MP Makoti Sibongile Khawula cryptically.

"MaKhawula", as she is as known in the gleaming corridors of Parliament, says people are tired of others arriving in their communities and making changes that affect them without explaining what they are doing.

So, she says she will speak the language of her constituency - Maphumulo, in the Ilembe district of KwaZulu-Natal - so people can understand what is being said about and for them. For her, it is important that people understood the details of matters that affect their lives.


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NEW: Kohler Barnard’s DA expulsion lifted

Dianne Kohler Barnard's expulsion from the DA was lifted on Tuesday after she appealed the October ruling.

This was after she had been expelled for sharing a Facebook post from journalist Paul Kirk, in which he praised former apartheid president PW Botha.


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NEW: I will not respond to Manuel's letter, says Zulu

mall Business Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu will not respond to former finance minister Trevor Manuel’s letter to her.

"I am not responding to this matter any more. I believe I have already clarified my views," she said.

In his letter, published in City Press, Manuel took issue with her claim that business had rallied against President Jacob Zuma’s appointment of David van Rooyen as finance minister. There was no monolithic view that could be ascribed to an entity called business, he wrote.


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NEW: SAA Airbus swap deal goes Nene's way

South African Airways (SAA) chairperson Dudu Myeni has officially lost her battle to reconfigure the airline’s Airbus swap deal, which could have threatened the financial stability of SAA.

SAA informed the Treasury that the board approved the execution of the transaction as directed and a process is underway to conclude it within the next few days, Treasury said in a statement late on Monday.


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NEW: Zimbabwe to expand use of yuan as China cancels $40 million debt

Zimbabwe said Monday that China plans to cancel $40 million in debts as the southern African country seeks to expand use of the yuan in its multi-currency economy.

"They (China) said they are cancelling our debts that are maturing this year and we are in the process of finalising the debt instruments and calculating the debts," Minister Patrick Chinamasa said in a statement.

Chinamasa also announced that Zimbabwe will officially make the Chinese yuan legal tender as it seeks to increase trade with Beijing. Zimbabwe abandoned its own dollar in 2009 after hyperinflation, which had peaked at around 500 billion percent, rendered it unusable.


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NEW: Gordhan Meets With SAA’s Myeni

The National Treasury has confirmed that Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has met with South African Airways (SAA) board chairperson Dudu Myeni.

Gordhan pledged to make contact with Myeni when he briefed journalists on Monday, the day after President Jacob Zuma appointed him to replace Des van Rooyen, the backbench Member of Parliament who held the portfolio for four brief days.


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NEW: Chelsea give Mourinho the boot

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has left the club "by mutual consent" after a disastrous start to the season, the Premier League champions announced on Thursday.

"Chelsea Football Club and Jose Mourinho have today parted company by mutual consent," the club said in a statement on their website, confirming earlier media reports.


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NEW: ‘Corruption In Education Sector Will Not Be Tolerated’

Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga says she and her department are adamant that corruption in the sector will be dealt with after investigations found that teaching jobs are being sold.

Initial media reports detailed a scandal called “cash for jobs” where teachers and principals would pay up to R50,000 to get a post.

Minister Motshekga says the blatant corruption and exploitation will not be tolerated.


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NEW: Grain SA Attributes High Maize Price Increase To Zuma's Sacking Of Nene

Grain South Africa says the cost of importing maize into the country has increased by 15 percent since President Jacob Zuma fired Nhlanhla Nene as finance minister and the accumulated increase for the season is estimated at R3 million.

South Africa usually exports around two million tons of maize every year generating R6 billion for the economy, but due to this year's drought, this has not happened.

It says the country's maize traders will import 770 tons of maize at a price of R2,2 billion; 80 percent of this had been imported before the rand tumbled last week.


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NEW: Stop exaggerating SA's problems: Zuma

"We exaggerate our problems and make people think that South Africans are funny people; whilst in reality people envy to be South Africans," he said during an address celebrating Reconciliation Day at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth.

In one of South Africa’s stranger public holiday commemorations on Wednesday, thousands gathered in various cities to participate in #ZumaMustFall marches, while President Jacob Zuma himself called for people not to exaggerate the country’s problems for fear of being considered "funny".

Zuma faced a backlash after he announced last week that he was replacing Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene with ANC MP Des van Rooyen. There was a public outcry and calls for Zuma to be recalled over the move, which saw the rand reach record lows. Four days after the announcement Zuma backtracked, replacing Van Rooyen with Pravin Gordhan as finance minister, which saw the rand recover somewhat.


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NEW: Springbok Women Sevens won't compete at Rio 2016 Olympics

The SA Rugby Union (Saru) confirmed on Tuesday that the Springbok Women Sevens team would not be competing at the Rio Olympics in 2016, despite achieving the qualifying standard of World Rugby.

The Springbok Women won the African qualifying competition in Kempton Park in September to satisfy the criteria of rugby’s world governing body. However, the team did not fulfil the criteria of the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC).


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NEW: Sbu Ndebele arrested for corruption

Former transport minister Sibusiso Ndebele has appeared in a Durban court on charges of fraud, corruption and money laundering relating to an eNatis contract.

The Mercury on Tuesday reported that Ndebele had been named as the first accused in the case.

He is accused of accepting just over R10m into his Capitec bank account for his direct benefit.


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NEW: All 1000 LA schools closed due to threat

All public schools in the vast Los Angeles area have been ordered closed due to a threat, a spokesperson, Ellen Morgan, said on Tuesday.

During a press conference on Tuesday officials said they received the electronic threat and were still analysing it. They said the action was being taken out of an abundance of caution. Schools would remain closed until the threat was cleared, which they expected to happen by the end of the day.


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NEW: Bad news for cable thieves as Zuma signs tough new penalties into law

President Jacob Zuma signed the Criminal Matters Amendment Act, 2015 into law on Monday, the presidency said, a move that spells bad news for cable and scrap metal thieves.

The act amends the Criminal Procedure Act, 1977 and introduces harsher sentences for the destruction of essential infrastructure and more stringent bail conditions and applications for perpetrators.


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NEW: It's time individuals stop playing with public entities: Pravin Gordhan

Newly re-appointed finance minister‚ Pravin Gordhan has briefed the country on how he plans to revive investor confidence in the economy following a disastrous week precipitated by the firing of Nhlanhla Nene as minister on Wednesday last week.

Gordhan began with an observation: "I see we have created a bit of excitement for you". Flanked by the governor of the Reserve Bank‚ Lesetja Kganyago‚ and deputy finance minister‚ Mcebisi Jones‚ Gordhan said: "I'm relatively familiar with the terrain".


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NEW: Inspirational Cape Town ouma walks tall to receive her degree

Hitchhiking to class, not knowing anything about computers and struggling with a language barrier - while battling cancer - were some of the obstacles a Delft grandmother had to navigate to get to her university degree.

So on Friday Regina Bessick, aged 50, walked tall to receive her theology degree from Stellenbosch University, seven years after walking onto campus as a first-year student.

“Everything I went through to get here was worth it,” she said, hours after her graduation ceremony.


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NEW: Nhlanhla Nene removed as finance minister

President Jacob Zuma took an unprecedented step on Wednesday night by dismissing Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene – barely two years after he took office.

In a shocking move that saw the rand plummeting to below R15 to the US dollar, Zuma appointed a relatively unknown backbencher David ‘Des’ van Rooyen – who served as a member of the finance committee in Parliament – to replace Nene. Nene has been at loggerheads with SAA chair Dudu Myeni – who serves as thechairperson of the president Jacob Zuma’s education trust.


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NEW: The Muslims who shaped America

What have Muslims ever done for America? If your sole source of information were Donald Trump, you’d think the answer was not much – apart from murdering its citizens and trying to destroy its values. The Republican presidential hopeful has called for a halt to Muslims entering the United States until American authorities “can figure out” Muslim attitudes to the US in the wake of last week’s killings in San Bernardino. If only, you might well think, Scotland had had the same thought about Trump before he was allowed in to blight Aberdeenshire with another of his golf resorts.

 

What Trump doesn’t seem to grasp is his country’s history, and how many American achievements worth celebrating are the work of the kind of people – Muslims – he wants to keep out.

Here, then, is a guide to some of the things Muslims have done for the US. It’s not an exhaustive list, but it’s still more impressive than what Trump has done for his homeland.


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NEW: Maimane challenges Zuma to public debate on economy

DA leader Mmusi Maimane has challenged President Jacob Zuma to a public debate on the state of the economy.

This comes less than 24 hours after Zuma announced that he was replacing Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene with ANC backbencher David van Rooyen.


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NEW: Drug to prevent HIV gets the official nod

Finally‚ South Africans who have risky sex can take a pill to prevent them getting HIV‚ after the pill known as Truvada was approved by the Medicines Control Council.

The control council said on Tuesday it had approved the drug at a recent November meeting. It is already used in combination with another antiretroviral (ARV) as treatment for HIV‚ but has not been licensed legally for prevention.


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