African Roots

SANDF members doing rehearsals in Thohoyandou, Limpopo, ahead of the Armed Forced Day on Saturday Limpopo is set to host the 2016 Armed Forces Day celebrations on the 21st of February. A day ahead of the event, members of the South African National Defence Force are rehearsing in Thohoyandou, Limpopo, where President Cyril Ramaphosa will…

Suspended National Deputy Police Commissioner General Shadrack Sibiya. The Madlanga Commission has heard how suspended deputy national police commissioner General Shadrack Sibiya interfered with the investigations of the 121 dockets. This is according to evidence leader Adv Adil Hassim SC who is cross-examining General Sibiya at the Madlanga Commission in Pretoria on Friday. Various witnesses at…

Gauteng police have confirmed that the son of former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and another man will appear in the Alexandra Magistrates Court in Johannesburg on Monday. This follows their arrest after the alleged shooting of a 23-year-old gardener at Mugabe’s Hyde Park home on Thursday. Police are continuing their search at the property this…

A 55-year-old gun dealer has been arrested for the alleged illegal possession of firearms and ammunition in Middelburg, Mpumalanga. The National Tracking and Tracing Task Team arrested the suspect found with 537 unlicensed firearms during the police’s Operation Buyisa. Police spokesperson Amanda van Wyk says the team received information about a security company operating without…

Dirty water flowing from the tap. Residents of Hursthill say they no longer trust municipal water after taps ran reddish on Thursday. The affected areas include Hursthill and parts of Auckland Park. Residents say the tap water is sometimes smelly, and they fear their lives could be at risk, as they may contract diseases such as cholera. …

Former North West Deputy Director for Public Prosecutions, Advocate Sello Maema testifying at the Nkabinde Inquiry The panel at the Nkabinde Enquiry will commence with the cross examination of Former North West Deputy Director for Public Prosecutions, Advocate Sello Maema after he concluded his evidence in chief  on Thursday.  The enquiry is looking into the…

The Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) has condemned the fatal shooting of a Cape Town Moulana in Mitchells Plain on the Cape Flats on Wednesday night. The police found the body of the 33-year old man lying in the street in Lentegeur. The police say that the victim had just left a mosque when he was…

The wife of one of the five trapped miners at Ekapa Minerals mine in Kimberley says the waiting has now become unbearable. Residents of Kimberley held a candlelight vigil outside the premises of the mine on Thursday evening to support the affected families. Rescue efforts to find the trapped miners who have been out of…