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    South Africa’s young people are facing an uphill battle in the job market, with new figures showing youth unemployment has hit alarming highs.   According to Stats SA’s latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey for the first quarter of 2025, youth aged 15 to 34 now make up over half of the country’s working-age population—about 20.9 million people.   Yet, nearly half of them are unemployed, with the official youth jobless rate rising to

  The dredging of Zeekoevlei will start in June this year. That’s according to the City’s Spatial Planning and Environment Directorate. The City’s Deputy Mayor and Mayoral Committee Member for Spatial Planning and Environment, Eddie Andrews says the project team is making great progress with the preparations for this major operation that will take about 2 years. It forms part of the City’s plans to improve water quality.   MMC Andrews says, “The last time

  World Cocktail Day is being celebrated today. Cocktails can be enjoyed any time of the year, even in Winter.  It’s been reported that the first time the word “cocktail” was defined in print was back in 1806 by a New York tabloid. Today, more than 200 years later, cocktails are still being enjoyed around the world.   “For me, there’s something about a winter evening that feels especially comforting,” says Julius.   World Cocktail

  An off-duty police officer and a Good Samaritan resident are being praised after saving a man about to jump off the M5 bridge onto the N1 highway.   A video of the incident has gone viral on social media.   Lieutenant-Colonel Mark Psaradelis, a 31-year SAPS veteran, was on his way home on Friday around 2 pm when he spotted the man standing on the bridge railing with a cast on his leg and

    “This is the land of the free” is what US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau told 49 Afrikaners who touched down in Washington, on Monday.   He, alongside US Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, Troy Edgar, welcomed some of the men, women and children granted refugee status in the US.     Meanwhile, President Cyril Ramaphosa believes the Afrikaans-speaking South Africans who had left the country to be refugees in the US