Nigeria’s Victor Osimhen Nigeria will be without key striker Victor Osimhen for Tuesday’s must-win World Cup qualifier in South Africa after a foot injury saw him miss the trip, officials confirmed on Monday. The 2023 African Footballer of the Year is Nigeria’s lead attacker, but was hurt playing in Saturday’s 1-0 home win over Rwanda…
Deputy National Police Commissioner for Crime Detection Shadrack Sibiya. The Gauteng High Court in Pretoria dismissed Deputy National Police Commissioner for Crime Detection, Lieutenant-General Shadrack Sibiya‘s bid to return to work. This comes after National Police Commissioner General Fannie Masemola ordered Sibiya to stay at home pending an investigation. The decision came after Sibiya was…
Graduation ceremony of new metro police officers at Athlone Stadium in Cape Town, 9 September 2025. The City of Cape Town has conceded it needs to do more to curb gang violence on the Cape Flats. This as 700 new Metro Police Officers are set to graduate at the Athlone Stadium on Tuesday. The City’s…
A sign of a crime scene. A member of the African National Congress Youth League’s provincial executive committee (PEC) in Limpopo has been shot and killed. He was travelling to Kimberley in the Northern Cape for the league’s meeting to prepare for the National General Council (NGC) meeting when the incident happened on Tuesday morning….
Gauteng Health MEC Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko addressed the post-budget briefing at the Provincial Legislature on July 16, 2025. The Democratic Alliance (DA) has again called for the removal of the Gauteng Health MEC, Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko and the Health Department head, Lesiba Malotana. This follows a revelation that the department has an outstanding debt of R8 billion…
Beds inside of a healthcare facility. The Constitutional Court has heard from Counsel on behalf of the Solidarity Trade Union and others that nothing in the National Health Act (NHA) constrains the Minister in deciding what health services might or might not be subject to a certificate of need. A certificate of need is a…
Graphic showing a crime scene The police’s hostage negotiators as well as Special Task Force and other units from the South African Police Services (SAPS) are on the ground in Mamelodi East, Buffer Zone responding to a hostage situation. That’s according to Brigadier Brenda Muridili. It is alleged that at about 8:00 am, a police…
File: Minister in the Presidency, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni addresses a Post Cabinet Media Briefing in Hatfield, Pretoria on May 15, 2025. Trade union Solidarity is taking Minister in the Presidency, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, to court over alleged defamation. This, after she claimed that Solidarity and its sister organisation, AfriForum, led misinformation campaigns against South Africa. This follows…
Parliament’s Committee on Transport Chairperson Selelo Selamolela addressed the media on September 8, 2025. The Chairperson of Parliament’s Committee on Transport Selelo Selamolela says that the deadly shootings that happened at Maponya Mall in Gauteng last month are just the tip of the iceberg within the taxi industry. An e-hailing driver, 27-year-old Siyanda Mthokozisi Mvelase…
Equipment used to manufacture alcohol recovered. The police have arrested seven foreign nationals for running a facility that is manufacturing illegal alcohol at Klapmuts in the Cape Winelands District. Police spokesperson Wesley Twigg says five men and two women were arrested. He says officers followed up on information when they discovered the facility. “The members visited…
