Investigators were not specific on the date Meyiwa was killed: Ntanzi
Two of the accused in the Meyiwa murder trial. Accused number 2 in the Senzo…
Investigators were not specific on the date Meyiwa was killed: Ntanzi
Two of the accused in the Meyiwa murder trial. Accused number 2 in the Senzo Meyiwa trial, Bongani Ntanzi, says investigators were not specific on the date the soccer captain was killed when they asked for his alibi. Ntanzi, who is on trial with four others for the 2014 murder of the Bafana Bafana captain,…
Safety concerns halt use of mobile classrooms at MP school
File Image of a school. Parents of learners enrolled at Tsandzanani Primary School in Matsulu, in Mpumalanga, are appealing to the provincial Education Department, to finish the school project. They say the school was left incomplete in 2014, with a shortage of six classrooms, toilets, a library and an administrative block. The school is struggling…
AfriForum slams ‘catastrophic failure’ in Mbense murder case
AfriForum Spokesperson Barry Bateman. AfriForum Private Prosecution Unit’s Barry Bateman has criticised the slow pace of prosecution in the Emmanuel Mbense murder case, calling it a catastrophic failure. His remarks follow the death of former police reservist, Wiandre Pretorius who committed suicide on Saturday at a filling station in Brakpan, Ekurhuleni. Pretorius was implicated in…
Nkabinde Enquiry expected to seek postponement due to witness absence
Outgoing National Prosecuting Authority head, Advocate Shamila Batohi. Evidence leaders at the Nkabinde enquiry in Pretoria will today apply for a postponement until next week Tuesday due to the absence of additional witnesses. This follows the conclusion of testimony by former KwaZulu-Natal Director of Public Prosecutions, Advocate Moipone Noko, on Friday. The enquiry is investigating…
City Power urges home businesses to change to business classification
City Power offices in Johannesburg. Johannesburg’s City Power is calling on all customers who are running full-time businesses from properties registered as residential to change to a business classification. This has a significate impact on the tariffs they are charged. Residential tariffs are designed and priced based on normal household consumption patterns, while business tariffs have higher consistent electricity usage…
UWC students stage protest over outstanding residence placements
The administration building of the University of the Western Cape. Students at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) have shut down the campus, blocking vehicles coming in and out demanding accommodation. Student Representative Council (SRC) President, Mcntosh Khasembe, says there are about 4 000 students that still need to be placed in residences. They are…
Suspended Ekurhuleni legal head denies interacting with Witness D
Suspended Ekurhuleni Head of Legal and Risk Services Advocate Kemi Behari says he has never interacted with witness D also known as Marius van der Merwe and the allegations against him are unfounded. Van der Merwe was killed in an apparent hit in Boksburg last year. Behari has on Monday morning taken to the stand at…
Application for postponement Nkabinde Enquiry opposed
Court room gavel and a book. An application for a postponement by evidence leaders in the Nkabinde Enquiry has been opposed by legal representatives for suspended South Gauteng Director of Public Prosecutions, Advocate Andrew Chauke The evidence leaders requested a postponement to next week, citing the absence of key witnesses. They also stressed that legal…
T20 World Cup a fresh start for Proteas: Rabada
SA fast bowler Kagiso Radebe Proteas fast bowler Kagiso Rabada says this year’s edition of ICC’s Men’s T20 World Cup in India and Sri Lanka, is a fresh start for the South African team. The Proteas lost to India in the previous final in the USA, two years ago. South Africa has been drawn in…
Lekganyane dismisses bid to recuse Arendse at Ad Hoc Committee
Evidence leader for the Ad Hoc Committee, Advocate Norman Arendse, SC. The chairperson of Parliament’s Ad Hoc committee, Soviet Lekganyane, has decided not to remove the evidence leader, Advocate Norman Arendse, at this stage. The committee is probing allegations of corruption in the criminal justice system. It received a letter from the South African Public…
