TMPD shifts focus to inner-city crime as traffic volumes ease
FILE | TMPD officer making an arrest The Tshwane Metro Police Department (TMPD) says it…
Residents at informal settlement say price of paraffin unaffordable
A lamp burns in a room Residents of Somalia Park informal settlement in Ekurhuleni in Gauteng say they’re battling to afford the cost of living following this week’s increase in the price of paraffin. From the first of this month, the price of a litre of paraffin rose to R11.67 per litre. The price increase…
TMPD shifts focus to inner-city crime as traffic volumes ease
FILE | TMPD officer making an arrest The Tshwane Metro Police Department (TMPD) says it is shifting its focus to patrolling the inner-city and townships to held curb crime and lawlessness this Easter long weekend. Traffic volumes have since eased on the N1 highway to Limpopo after thousands of holiday makers and ZCC pilgrims left…
10 arrested in Free State fraud bust
Odendaalsrus fraud suspects have been arrested for a bank loan scam A multi-police task team has arrested 10 suspects, one woman and nine men, for alleged fraud in Odendaalsrus, in the Free State. This, after a 47-year-old woman applied for a bank loan using fraudulent documents. Spokesperson Palesa Thabana says police were alerted to a…
Man killed, 12 year-old wounded in suspected gang shooting in Delft
A shooting crime scene. A 43-year-old man has been shot dead and a 12-year-old boy wounded in a suspected gang-related shooting in Leiden in Delft, on the Cape Flats. Police spokesperson Wesley Twigg says that the victims had reportedly been sitting outside a house when unknown suspects approached and opened fire, on Friday. He says…
Mafefe residents face water contaminated with asbestos crisis
Corrugated asbestos cement roofing. Community members in the Mafefe area, outside Lebowakgomo in Limpopo, are facing a serious health crisis due to asbestos contamination in local rivers and streams. The water has tested positive, according to an independent company, AssureCloud. Contamination is allegedly linked to an abandoned rehabilitation project of the old asbestos mine by…
Stocks sink, oil leaps above $100 as Trump vows to keep hitting Iran
A cargo ship in the Gulf, near the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from northern Ras al-Khaimah, near the border with Oman’s Musandam governance, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in United Arab Emirates, March 11, 2026. Markets recoiled on Thursday as war jitters over Iran deepened, with stocks sliding, oil surging well over $100…
Sharks, Stormers, Bulls set for European knockout showdowns
Player catches rugby ball during a line out A big weekend of knockout European rugby awaits three South African franchises. The European Cup rugby action kicks off late, on Friday night, when the Sharks face Connacht in the round of 16 of the Challenge Cup, in Galway. The Sharks will bring their strong home form…
Second person dies from Limpopo head-on crash
The scene of the head-on collision between two vehicles at Ga-Chuene, outside Lebowakgomo in Limpopo. The number of people killed in a head-on collision between two vehicles at Ga-Chuene between Polokwane and Lebowakgomo in Limpopo has now increased to two. The Transport Department says one of the two people who had been admitted at a…
Parliament urges McKenzie to dissolve Athletics South Africa board
Sports, Arts and Culture Minister Gayton McKenzie Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Sport, Arts and Culture has unanimously resolved to recommend to Minister Gayton McKenzie that the Athletics South Africa (ASA) board be dissolved due to persistent failures within the organisation. The committee has found that the federation has failed in its fiduciary duties and is…
Garden Route Municipality says no new cases of FMD reported in past two weeks
Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen seen during Foot and Mouth vaccination drive at ZZ2 Kareebosch Farm. The Garden Route District Municipality in the Western Cape says no new cases of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) have been reported over the past two weeks. The official number of farms in the region affected by the disease remains…
