July 2025

[File photo] Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo The chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Health, Dr Sibongiseni Dlomo, says there seems to be a section of the Medical Schemes Act that allows medical aid companies to discriminate against black doctors. Dr Dlomo’s comments follow the release of the Section 59 report last week. The panel, which was…

Gavel in a court room. The Mankweng Magistrate’s Court outside Polokwane in Limpopo has granted R2 000 bail each to three men accused of abducting an elderly man and taking him to an initiation school. The men, including a traditional healer, were arrested yesterday. They have been charged for the alleged attack on three men…

Judicial watchdog Judges Matter has expressed concerns about what it calls a trend in which commissions of inquiry function like trials. It says this prolongs the investigative process. The remarks follow President Cyril Ramaphosa’s establishment of a judicial commission of inquiry after KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi’s allegation that criminal syndicates have infiltrated criminal justice institutions….

Lt General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi briefing media in Durban. Corruption Watch says the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into the alleged infiltration of law enforcement agencies by criminal syndicates must have clearly defined timelines, and ensure the protection of whistle-blowers appearing before it. President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the establishment of the Inquiry on Sunday night in the…

(File Image) A health officer checks a cattle in a farm to measure against foot-and-mouth disease. The Department of Agriculture has confirmed outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, in the Free State. The CEO of the Southern African Agri Initiative Francois Rossouw has urged the government to step up measures to control the recent foot and mouth…

Deputy Police Commissioner Shadrack Sibiya In just over two days after President Cyril Ramaphosa placed Police Minister Senzo Mchunu on a leave of absence, National Police Commissioner General Fannie Masemola has announced the suspension of his deputy and Crime Detection head, Shadrack Sibiya. Lieutenant-General Sibiya and Minister Mchunu are implicated by KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Nhlanhla…