Gender based violence cases raise concern over justice system
FILE | Women holding placards calling for an end in GBV. A KwaZulu-Natal family of…
President announces 4th November as date for LGE
Sign displaying the direction in which the voting station is located The seventh democratic Local Government Elections (LGE) will be held on the 4th of November. President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the date at the extended President’s Coordinating Council Meeting, in Boksburg, east of Johannesburg. JUST IN | President Cyril Ramaphosa says 4 November has been…
Madlanga Commission rejects Malatji’s application for a postponement
Suspended Director for Asset Protection Services at the Tshwane Metro Police Department, Tshukudu Malatji. The Madlanga Commission of Inquiry has rejected suspended Tshwane Director for Asset Protection Services in the City of Tshwane Metro Police Department, Tshukudu Malatji’s, application for a postponement. Malatji’s legal representative, Sibusiso Nkosi, told the commission in Pretoria that his client…
Tshukudu Malatji returns to the stand at Madlanga Commission
FILE: Suspended Director for Asset Protection Services at the Tshwane Metro Police Department, Tshukudu Malatji. Suspended Director for Asset Protection at the Tshwane Metro Police Department (TMPD), Tshukudu Malatji, returns to the stand at the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry on Thursday morning. The commission continues with evidence from the City of Tshwane, where various top…
Gender based violence cases raise concern over justice system
FILE | Women holding placards calling for an end in GBV. A KwaZulu-Natal family of a young woman, Ntokozo Ziqubu, who was shot and killed in August 2023, is seeking justice nearly three years later. According to her family, three alleged perpetrators who had earlier gone to her home looking for her later found her…
New Zealand’s Patel, Sharp named in T20 World Cup squad
FILE | Cricket stumps on the field. Off-spinning all-rounder Nensi Patel and batter Izzy Sharp are set to make their Women’s Twenty20 World Cup debuts after being named in the New Zealand squad for the tournament in England in June, the country’s cricket board announced on Wednesday. Sophie Devine, Lea Tahuhu and Suzie Bates were…
Ambushed KZN officers were on undercover operation: SAPS
Forensic team arrives at the crime scene. Police in KwaZulu-Natal say the two crime intelligence police officers who were ambushed by armed suspects earlier on Thursday in Mount Edgecombe north of Durban were on an undercover operation. One officer was killed and another wounded in a crossfire with suspects. Speaking at the scene, South African…
‘We don’t want the Lungu’s descendants to claim land’: PFSA
Zambia’s President Edgar Lungu speaks at a rally in the capital Lusaka, Zambia on January 19, 2015. A Civic Movement Progressive Forces of South Africa (PFSA) is picketing outside the High Court in Pretoria ahead of the case between the Zambian government and the family of the late former president Edgar Lungu. The matter concerns…
Maluleke denies political interference in his resignation from NSFAS
Former NSFAS interim chairperson, Dr Mugwena Maluleke Former National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) interim chairperson Dr Mugwena Maluleke says his resignation has nothing to do with political interference or pressure from the executive. Maluleke has cited personal reasons for his resignation. His departure comes in the midst of high-level board resignations from the scheme,…
Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee has started considering a draft report
Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee, looking into threats of national security, has started considering its draft report. The committee was established last year, following allegations by KZN top cop, Lt-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, of political interference in the highest level of SAPS as well as the infiltration by five major crime syndicates. The…
Fuel levy relief extension is deceptive: FOSA
A petrol station attendant fills up a car ahead of a petrol price increase effective from midnight, at a filling station in Johannesburg, South Africa on May 31, 2022. The Forum for South Africa (FOSA) has criticised the government’s extension of the fuel levy relief, calling it deceptive. On Tuesday, Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana announced…
