Ten people were injured, two seriously, when a minibus taxi and a private security vehicle collided in the intersection of Randal’s and Stanley Copley Roads in Sydenham this morning. The cause of the collision remains unclear and will be the subject of a South African Police Force investigation. Paramedics arrived at the scene to find [...]
A construction worker died in hospital this afternoon after falling from a height at a local factory in Pietermaritzburg. ER24 paramedics arrived on the scene and found the man lying on the floor and unresponsive. Advanced Life Support Intervention was performed along with CPR. The man had suffered multiple fractures and lacerations. Paramedics rushed the [...]
A man died and three people were injured in a head-on collision between a truck and bakkie on the N2 outside Gonubie on Wednesday, Eastern Cape police said. “The accident happened at about 6:00. The driver of the Hyundai truck died on impact. We had to use the jaws of life to cut him out,” [...]
Rescue efforts are still underway to find one missing miner following yesterday’s seismic event at Bambanani mine in Welkom in the Free State where eight employees were trapped. An update report by a senior inspector dispatched by the Department of Mineral Resources indicates that five miners sustained minor injuries, while one of them sustained serious [...]
A 47-year-old man was fatally injured when his microlight hit overhead cables and crashed outside Brits, near Pretoria, officials said on Monday. The microlight came down in a field, 40km outside of Brits at 09:00, said ER24 spokesperson Vanessa Jackson. Hartbeespoort rescue workers got to the scene to find the pilot with severe head, chest, [...]
Four miners are trapped underground at Harmony Gold’s Bambanani Mine in the Free State following an earth tremor, the mineral resources department said on Monday. Eight miners were initially trapped, but four, who sustained minor injuries, were rescued following the 2.1 magnitude tremor, spokesperson Zingaphi Jakuja said. Operations to get the four other miners out [...]
A young Johannesburg girl has died, possibly after contracting rabies, Gauteng agriculture and rural development MEC Nandi Mayathula-Khoza said on Monday. The child, aged below 10, from Dobsonville, Soweto, died on Saturday at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital of symptoms similar to those of rabies. She had a history of being bitten by dogs. Khoza said [...]
A 25-year-old man is missing and presumed drowned in Hazelmere Dam, after going missing while canoeing yesterday afternoon. Details surrounding the man’s disappearance remain vague and will remain the subject of a South African Police Force investigation. Paramedics arrived at the scene to find that family members had already pulled the man’s canoe from the [...]
Relief is pouring in for 513 people displaced when a fire ripped through the Mangologolo informal settlement near Denver, Johannesburg emergency services said on Sunday. Three major retail stores were offering food and had promised to provide building material, spokesperson Percy Morokane said. The city’s disaster management and non-governmental organisations had offered blankets. “The response [...]
A roll-over accident of a bakkie on the R 707 between Senekal and Marquard left 4 people injured two children critically so this morning at around 08h30. Exact details to the cause of the accident will remain a subject for police to investigate. Paramedics rushed to the scene from Bethlehem and when they arrived found [...]
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