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Private investigator Paul O’Sullivan’s appearance before Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee. Paul O’Sullivan‘s qualifications have come under scrutiny at Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee investigating criminality in the country’s criminal justice system. O’Sullivan had spent the bulk of his testimony in parliament, relating his role in exposing corruption and helping in crime prevention activities as a police…

Scholar transport vehicles. Gauteng Department of Education says they have reached an amicable agreement with scholar bus transport providers, and full operations are set to resume next Monday. The two parties were at loggerheads after some service providers were not paid for three months. Bus operators had halted their services and school children were left stranded, leading to frustrated parents blockading…

Deputy President Paul Mashatile speaking in Cape Town at the round table for the Presidential Youth Engagement. Deputy President Paul Mashatile says he is optimistic that over the next three years, government programmes targeting youth unemployment will double the number of employed young people. Mashatile was speaking in Cape Town at the roundtable for the…

Bricks are seen at the the Princess Plot Housing Development project in Roodepoort, west of Johannesburg on 10 February 2026. The Department of Human Settlements in Gauteng says Phase 1 of the Princess Plot Housing Development project in Roodepoort, west of Johannesburg, has been completed, and formal housing will be delivered to qualifying beneficiaries. Residents…

Private investigator, Paul O’Sullivan testifies before Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee. Private investigator, Paul O’Sullivan, a witness before Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee that is looking into concerns of national security, has denied that he has ever been involved in South Africa’s state security machinery. O’Sullivan has assured Members of Parliament that, despite having a British passport…

Convicted rapist and murderer Thabo Bester applies for an urgent application in the High Court in Pretoria on September 17, 2024. An urgent application by convicted murderer and rapist Thabo Bester to be moved back to a prison in Gauteng has been struck off the roll by the High Court in Pretoria. Bester is currently being held…

Thabo Bester takes his urgent application to be moved from Ebongweni to the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria. LIVE STREAM:

A lock on a prison cell. A 25-year-old woman has been sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment for attempted murder and assault with the intent to cause grievous bodily harm by the Mokopane Regional Court in Limpopo. Yvonne Maja was found guilty of burning her ex-boyfriend and his partner with acid. NPA Spokesperson Mashudu Malabi says…