Police used rubber bullets and stun grenades to disperse a group of about 250 people who had gathered for a church service in Sebokeng Zone 7 in the Vaal area on Sunday. Two church leaders aged 47 and 69 were arrested for contravening…
The survival of small business owners and craft breweries is in peril due to the alcohol ban, says the Beer Association of South Africa (Basa). The association on Wednesday issued an urgent call to President Cyril Ramaphosa to lift the…
SA may be over the Covid-19 surge, but reimposing strict restrictions is still on the table, warns health minister Zweli Mkhize. Mkhize told eNCA he hoped SA did not have to reimpose extreme lockdown restrictions, as other countries have…
Transport minister Fikile Mbalula says SA’s drinking laws do not work, but banning alcohol is not an option. Mbalula was speaking at a media briefing on Monday after the deaths of three Tshwane metro police constables while on duty on…
Back in the 1920s, Al Capone was a notorious gangster and bootlegger who ran the streets of Chicago. He rose from being a street thug to becoming an underworld mob boss when he took advantage of the era of alcohol prohibition in the US in…
The Restaurant Association of SA has sent trade and industry minister Ebrahim Patel a lawyer’s letter demanding to know why alcohol cannot be sold to sit-down customers. The letter was written after the publication of directions in the…
All taxis will operate at full capacity from Monday, the SA National Taxi Council (Santaco) vowed on Sunday, as it rejected the R1.135bn in relief funds offered by the government. “We have decided to take the bull by the horns. We cannot…
“I have not received maintenance payments since February,” says Ntombenhle Mthembu from Imbali BB township in Pietermaritzburg. She was one of several frustrated mothers who gathered on the steps of the Pietermaritzburg magistrate’s court…
As South African schools officially reopen on Monday, two Eastern Cape schools based in King Willam’s Town will not see their grade 12 and grade 7 students return to class. De Vos Malan High and Central Primary schools have both been…
The C-19 People’s Coalition has rejected the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) board of inquiry’s findings that there was no link between Collins Khosa’s death and the soldiers he reportedly had an altercation with. “The C-19 People’s…
“We must realise we are only at the beginning of this pandemic. There is no way by some miracle, one fine day, it will disappear. This is a diabolical virus.” These were the words of the world’s most renowned “virus hunter”, Professor…
The government’s claim that banning cigarette sales would make people give up smoking is “untenable and not supported by evidence”. This is according to court papers filed by the Fair Trade Independent Tobacco Association (Fita), in…
The DA’s lawyers have written to co-operative governance & traditional affairs minister (Cogta) Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma seeking reasons for the “irrational and arbitrary” ban on reopening personal care businesses such as hairdressers —…
Parents have expressed their frustration at the basic education ministry’s last minute U-turn on grade 7 and 12 pupils returning to school on Monday. On Sunday evening, the office of basic education minister Angie Motshekga announced the…
Admired by some but berated by others for imposing a tight lockdown, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa faces a fresh leadership test over his handling of the coronavirus outbreak. Africa’s most industrialised nation is preparing to…
