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FULL ADDRESS | Finance minister Enoch Godongwana delivers budget speech

Finance minister Enoch Godongwana delivered his maiden budget speech before a joint sitting of parliament on Wednesday afternoon.

23 Feb 2022 7AM 50 min

Aaron Motsoaledi defends job quotas for foreign nationals

Don't have time to read? Listen to a summary on police response to a syndicate caught planning a heist in Joburg.

23 Feb 2022 6AM 1 min

Mmusi Maimane weighs in on immigration job quotas

Don't have time to read? Listen to a summary on One SA Movement leader Mmusi Maimane weighing in on immigration job quotas

23 Feb 2022 1AM 1 min

SSA warned police about July 2021 unrest from December 2020

Former State Security Agency (SSA) minister Ayanda Dlodlo is before the SA Human Rights Commission on Tuesday afternoon. The former minister said the SSA provided daily warnings regarding imminent unrest to SAPS. Dlodlo told the commission that her former department warned security departments about the unrest seven months before it…

22 Feb 2022 9AM 3 min

Tshwane and Western Cape allay fears over typhoid fever cases

Don't have time to read? Listen to a summary on the Tshwane and Western Cape governments explaining the Typhoid fever cases in their areas.

22 Feb 2022 7AM 1 min

Miss SA 2020 Shudufhadzo Musida relaunches ‘Mindful Mondays’

Don't have time to read? Listen to a summary on Miss SA 2020 Shudufhadzo Musida relaunching her ‘Mindful Mondays’ feature aimed at normalising conversations about mental health.

22 Feb 2022 5AM 1 min

Aaron Motsoaledi defends job quotas for foreign nationals

Don't have time to read? Listen to a summary on home affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi defending job quotas for foreign nationals.

22 Feb 2022 2AM 1 min

Highlights from David Makhura’s state of the province address

Don't have time to read? Listen to a summary on Gauteng premier David Makhura’s state of the province address

21 Feb 2022 9AM 1 min

It was clear there was going to be unrest, said Cele about the July 2021 unrest in KZN and Gauteng

Minister of police Bheki Cele is appearing before the SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) on Monday. Cele told the commission: “Dark clouds were gathering, you could see it coming.” The commission is investigating the unrest.

21 Feb 2022 5AM 3 min

Sassa is not giving away alleviation vouchers

Don't have time to read? Listen to a summary on Sassa rubbishing claims it is giving away poverty alleviation vouchers.

21 Feb 2022 3AM 1 min

Tombstones for Senzo Meyiwa and Nathaniel Nat Nakasa remain eyesores for their families

Desecrated to piles of rubble, the tombstones of former Bafana Bafana captain Senzo Meyiwa and anti-apartheid icon and journalist Nathaniel Nat Nakasa remain eyesores for their families. More than a year after Meyiwa and Nakasa’s grave sites were vandalised in the Chesterville Cemetery in Durban, the families of the late…

18 Feb 2022 10AM 3 min

Shut up and breathe

My name is Aspasia. Every year as I approach the end of February I get that mildly sinking feeling that comes from recognising that perhaps the grand resolutions I made may not be panning out quite as successfully as anticipated in the alcohol fueled daze of January 1. Perhaps you…

18 Feb 2022 10AM 49 min

CRIME STATS | SA sees reduction in some crimes but not murder 

Police minister Bheki Cele delivered the quarterly crime stats for the period October to December 2021. Although there was a significant reduction in crimes such as sexual assault and robbery, murders continued to rise.  

18 Feb 2022 8AM 4 min

Hoërskool Jan Viljoen parents clash as some black parents refused entry to parents' meeting

Gauteng education MEC Panyaza Lesufi was supposed to addressed Hoërskool Jan Viljoen parents on Thursday afternoon. The MEC was late for the meeting and while parents waited for him chaos was the order of the day. It was a shouting match with slurs being traded between black and white parents…

18 Feb 2022 12AM 6 min

Malema calls 'Kill the Boer' song a chant not a command

In his second day in the witness box, EFF leader Julius Malema told the equality court sitting in Johannesburg that the anti-apartheid song Dubul’ ibhunu, which translates to “shoot the Boer” or “kill the Boer”, was a chant and not a command to incite violence, as violence was not party policy.

17 Feb 2022 8AM 4 min

Zondo commission doesn't place sufficient emphasis on the role of banks in the state capture project 

 In this edition of Eusebius on TimesLIVE, Hennie van Vuuren, director of Open Secrets, explains why, despite excellent work done by the state capture inquiry, the commission headed by Justice Raymond Zondo could have been more nuanced in at least six respects.  Eusebius McKaiser and Van Vuuren discuss how some…

17 Feb 2022 4AM 5 min

Leave race out of it, no-one's plotting to kill white farmers in SA, Malema reiterates

The equality court in Johannesburg on Wednesday continued with the hate speech matter brought by AfriForum. The organisation took the EFF to court over the singing of the song Dubul' ibhunu. AfriForum wants the song declared as hate speech and for the EFF to apologise and be fined R500,000. EFF…

16 Feb 2022 1PM 4 min

Shoba wraps up his defence in Pule murder case

Alleged mastermind of the murder of Tshegofatso Pule, Ntuthuko Shoba, appeared at the Johannesburg high court on Wednesday for cross-examination. Shoba testified that he was not worried about not being able to make contact with Pule for several days after the last time he saw her — which was the…

16 Feb 2022 12PM 4 min

‘I did not sing ‘Kill the Boer’, you have the wrong man’, Julius Malema tells Equality Court

“I did not sing ‘Kill the Boer’, you have the wrong man.” So said EFF leader Julius Malema in the Equality Court in Johannesburg on Wednesday during the hate speech case brought by AfriForum. AfriForum took Malema and the EFF to court for singing Dubul’ ibhunu, translated as “Shoot the…

16 Feb 2022 4AM 3 min

Jacob Zuma denied leave to appeal

Former president Jacob Zuma has been denied leave to appeal the dismissal of his “special plea” to remove lead prosecutor advocate Billy Downer from his corruption trial. Pietermaritzburg high court judge Piet Koen on Wednesday ruled the trial must proceed, as agreed to by all parties, on April 11 this year.

16 Feb 2022 4AM 3 min