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Daily English South Africa News · Daily News
1,663 Episodes
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FULL ADDRESS | SA remains on level 1, but no off-site booze sales for Easter weekend

Alcohol will not be allowed for off-site consumption over the Easter weekend, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday night. He also announced that the country would remain on level 1 lockdown, albeit with “a few adjustments”. He said the tightened restrictions on alcohol were necessitated by “the role of alcohol…
30 Mar 2021 2PM 27 min

One year on: Did SA enter lockdown at the right time? 

Midnight 26 March 2021 marks the one year anniversary of lockdown - as a result of Covid-19 - in South Africa. The initial lockdown was announced on March 23 2020. At the time, SA and President Cyril Ramaphosa were lauded for acting swiftly and decisively to slow the outbreak of Covid-19…
26 Mar 2021 9AM 11 min

'They have displaced me and my brothers,' says Ndaba Mandela

The degeneration of former president Nelson Mandela’s once stately Houghton Estate home into an “eyesore” and allegations of underhanded dealings around its apparent sale are fuelling a rift in the family.Mandela family member and once an occupant of the Houghton home Ndaba Mandela gives us an excusive interview on what…
19 Mar 2021 1PM 5 min

Principal faces attempted murder charge for lowering pupil into pit toilet

The school principal who tasked a pupil with extracting his smartphone from a pit toilet has been charged with attempted murder. The 49-year-old man is expected to appear in the Nqanqathu, formerly Maclear, magistrate’s court today, DispatchLIVE reports. Dispatch reported the 11-year-old grade 4 pupil was paid R50 to try…
16 Mar 2021 9AM 3 min

SA company accused of committing war crimes in Mozambique

“We could hear bombs. We could see the machine guns in the open doors of the helicopters. I know three people who died, two were shot ... all women. They couldn’t run because they were elders.” This is the harrowing account of a mother of five from the northern Mozambique…
6 Mar 2021 2AM 11 min

Dancing and beating away your pent up Covid-19 stress

Sledgehammers, baseball bats, headphones and dance shoes are proving to be just what the doctor ordered to help stressed South Africans blow off steam. With frustration levels pushed to the limit by the Covid-19 lockdown, a tanking economy, growing unemployment and personal battles, knocking the blues out of discarded electronic…
5 Mar 2021 7AM 10 min

Julius Malema turns 40 - a review of his political career thus far

Leader and founder of the EFF Julius Malema celebrated his 40th birthday this week. In this short clip we look at some of the biggest moments in Malema's political career, assess the political clout he has managed to gain in his 40 years and wish him a happy birthday. 
4 Mar 2021 5AM 4 min

The many sounds of an African violin

Gretna Heynike plays Passagalia by composer Heinrich Ignaz Franz Von Biber on the first violin in the world to be made of indigenous woods from South Africa.
4 Mar 2021 4AM 1 min

'I'd work with Cyril, not David Mabuza': Steenhuisen

DA leader John Steenhuisen has opened the door to a possible coalition with the ANC should there be a stalemate in the 2024 elections - but only if President Cyril Ramaphosa is still its leader. Steenhuisen told the Sunday Times this week that the DA is keen to work with…
1 Mar 2021 5AM 4 min

FULL ADDRESS | SA moves to Covid-19 alert level 1

SA has officially been moved to Covid-19 alert level 1.President Cyril Ramaphosa made the announcement on Sunday night during his address to the nation on the latest developments around the coronavirus pandemic.
28 Feb 2021 1PM 21 min

Gqeberha: how to pronounce it and how it came about

Port Elizabeth has a new name — Gqeberha. The decision was officially approved and gazetted by sports, arts and culture minister Nathi Mthethwa on Tuesday. But social media has been abuzz with confusion around where the name came from, and how it is pronounced. 
24 Feb 2021 9AM 1 min

2021 budget could save SA from further ratings downgrades 

Finance minister Tito Mboweni delivered the 2021 budget speech in parliament on Tuesday. The budget looked to hold a firm line on Treasury’s fiscal consolidation plans without imposing proposed tax increases of R40bn over the next four years, despite an already extremely tight fiscal situation worsened by the Covid-19 pandemic…
24 Feb 2021 8AM 4 min

FULL ADDRESS | Tito Mboweni delivers budget speech for 2021

Finance minister Tito Mboweni delivered his budget for 2021. It came in the wake of shocking unemployment figures that were shared by Stats SA on Tuesday. Mboweni elaborated on measures to help the economy recover since Covid-19 hit SA 11 months ago.
24 Feb 2021 8AM 49 min

Two-thirds of the 2020 academic year was lost to Covid-19 school closures

This morning matric students from all over the country are scrambling to find out their results. With SA’s national matric pass rate for 2020 having dropped by 5.1 percentage points — from 81.3% in 2019 to 76.2% in what was a tumultuous 2020 matric year. ​ According to findings by…
22 Feb 2021 9PM 8 min
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