A couple and their three children‚ aged between 3 and 11‚ have been found dead after a fire in a Methodist church mission house in the Eastern Cape. Brig Tembinkosi Kinana said detectives are investigating. A resident alerted officers to…
All the children who died in the Enyobeni tavern tragedy had methanol in their blood. This was announced at the briefing by police and the health department on Tuesday. Eastern Cape health DG Dr Litha Matiwane said they were still waiting…
Police are refusing parents access to the bodies of their children after they were killed in an as yet unknown tragedy that has left at least 22 people dead at an East London tavern. The cause of the deaths at Enyobeni Tavern in Scenery…
At least 45 people have lost their lives during devastating rains that have battered KwaZulu-Natal‚ leaving destruction in their wake since Sunday. In a statement on Tuesday‚ co-operative governance and traditional affair MEC Sipho…
Ahead of the festive season rush‚ the Road Accident Fund‚ which is the insurer that provides liability and collision insurance coverage to all drivers in SA‚ has reminded South Africans of the most dangerous roads in the country . The…
Two members of the same family were killed by lightning in KwaZulu-Natal on Friday. A survivor of the lightning strike in Nongoma, 300km north of Durban, was taken to hospital, co-operative governance and traditional affairs MEC Sipho…
SA recorded more than 8,100 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, along with 173 fatalities. “We wish to reiterate our plea to South Africans to heed the threat of the rising numbers of Covid-19 cases identified. There is clear…
South Africa recorded nearly 5,000 new Covid-19 cases on Friday. Health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize said the 4,932 new cases took the national total of confirmed cases to 805,804. The new infections came from 33,415 tests, at a positivity…
Regrettably, the health ministry yesterday reported 20 COVID-19 related deaths today: 19 from Eastern Cape and 1 from Gauteng, This brings the total number of COVID-19 related deaths to 19 809. Of the 20 deaths reported yesterday, 1 was…
SA recorded its 3,026th Covid-19 fatality on Saturday, just 99 days after the first death was reported in the country on March 27. In a statement, health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize confirmed the grim milestone. He said that there were 3,026…
The Eastern Cape could see up to 6,000 deaths in the next four months due to Covid-19. The projected deaths are expected to occur during the peak of the virus between October and November. The prediction forms part of a comprehensive…
Fourteen more people have died from Covid-19 in SA, the health ministry confirmed on Thursday. In what is the single biggest jump in the number of deaths since the outbreak in SA, minister Dr Zweli Mkhize confirmed that the country’s…
