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KwaZulu-Natal Hawks Head Major-Gen Lesetja Senona KwaZulu-Natal police have responded to claims made by KwaZulu-Natal Hawks Head Major-Gen Lesetja Senona that he was kicked out of his office and his devices confiscated on the instruction of the Provincial Police Commissioner Lt. Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi. Senona further claimed that after being removed from the office, he…

The accused, Imanuwela David, Froliana Joseph and her brother Ndilinasho Joseph, who are linked to the theft of $580,000 USD at South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s farm, Phala Phala, appear in the Magistrate’s Court in Modimolle, South Africa October 7, 2024. The trial of three people in the theft of $580 000 at President Cyril…

Phakamile Hlubi Majola, the long-serving and outspoken spokesperson for the National Union of Metal Workers of South Africa (NUMSA), has resigned from the union, citing death threats. In her resignation letter, Majola says this is the third time a death threat has been made to her life. She says she received a call, on Saturday while…

Scholar transport vehicle. The Free State Education Department, together with the Department of Community Safety and Transport, has developed an app to monitor school transport. This as a measure to regulate and boost scholar transport safety in the province. Scholar transport safety recently came under scrutiny after 14 learners died in a collision in the…

murder investigation Three children were hacked to death in the Lulwane area of eManguzi in northern KwaZulu-Natal. Police say the children, aged between seven, nine and 15-years-old were attacked with a bush knife while they were apparently alone in their home on Saturday night. Police spokesperson Robert Netshiunda says the mother had gone out and…