Nkabinde Inquiry postponed amid Batohi’s legal representation issues
Outgoing National Director of Public Prosecutions, Advocate Shamila Batohi. Retired Justice Bess Nkabinde has granted…
Nkabinde Inquiry postponed amid Batohi’s legal representation issues
Outgoing National Director of Public Prosecutions, Advocate Shamila Batohi. Retired Justice Bess Nkabinde has granted a request from evidence leaders at the Nkabinde Inquiry to postpone proceedings until Thursday. The delay will allow the panel to determine whether there is a conflict of interest in having outgoing National Director of Public Prosecutions, Advocate Shamila Batohi,…
ANC Joburg region accuse Sanco of undermining its new leadership
Supporters of the ANC holding the party’s flag. The ANC Johannesburg Region has accused alliance partner Sanco of conducting an orchestrated campaign to undermine its newly elected leadership. December last year saw MMC for Finance Loyiso Masuku trump Johannesburg Mayor Dada Morero to the position of Chair of the region. However, the very public discovery of ballots…
Mr X probed about involvement in Brian Wainstein murder
Outside the Cape Town High Court in the Western Cape. Legal representative of alleged crime boss Jerome Booysen has presented a list of offences for which the state witness known as Mr X might be indemnified and prosecuted for. Advocate Amanda Nel’s cross-examination of Mr X got underway today at the Western Cape High Court. Booysen and 11 co-accused face…
North West regions still faced with parents needing school placements
[FILE] Morare Secondary School learners. The Department of Education in North West says its regions are still faced with several parents needing school placements for their children. The department says some parents don’t like the schools where their children have been placed. Education Department Spokesperson, Vuyo Mantshule, says they work every day to assist parents by…
March and March threatens to dump scores of children at Addington
SAPS officers outside Addington Primary School in Durban. Groups protesting against the enrolment of foreign nationals’ children at Addington Primary School are threatening to dump about 40 children displaced by the 2022 floods at this school in Durban’s Point area. This after the KwaZulu-Natal Education Department placed 66 learners who couldn’t get admission at other…
Batohi seeks helps from new NPA head after legal counsel rejection
Outgoing National Prosecuting Authority head, Advocate Shamila Batohi. Outgoing National Prosecuting Authority head, Advocate Shamila Batohi, is now seeking assistance from the newly-appointed National Director of Public Prosecutions, Advocate Andy Mothibi, after her request for state-funded legal counsel was rejected by Justice Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi. Batohi’s term officially comes to an end next week. She…
Nine children injured in Durban scholar transport crash
Paramedics and emergency services on site after a scholar transport crash at Lena Ahrens Road near Rhodes Avenue in Glenwood, Durban on 26 January 2026. Nine children have been injured after a taxi used as scholar transport collided with a bakkie on Lena Ahrens Roads in the Glenwood area of Durban. ALS Paramedics Spokesperson Garrith Jamison says the cause…
High Education committee laud Univen’s infrastructure repair work
Tebego Letsie, Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and Training. The Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and Training, Tebego Letsie, says committee members are impressed by the R1 billion infrastructure repair work carried out at the University of Venda in Thohoyandou in Limpopo. Committee members inspected new streets, residences…
Gauteng cracks down on non-compliant scholar transport operators
MEC for Roads and Transport Kedibone Diale-Tlabela is seen with Minister of Transport Barbara Creecy during a scholar transport safety campaign, E-Thoma-ka-Wena (It Starts with You), in this image captured on 22 January 2026. The Gauteng Department of Roads and Transport says it has intensified its crackdown on non-compliant scholar transport operators in Lenasia. This forms part of…
DA calls warns education dept against placing children far from home
DA members outside the Department of Education Tshwane West District. The Democratic Alliance in Gauteng has called on the Provincial Department of Education to desist from placing children far from where they live The party held a picket at the Department’s Tshwane West District. The picket comes as the department scrambles to place all the…
