The City has denied that the decision to remove the banner was due to the upcoming G20 Leaders’ Summit. The City of Johannesburg has moved to clarify what it terms misinformation surrounding the removal of a banner by civic group, Solidarity, put up along the M1 motorway. The City says the banner was set up…
Media law expert Emma Sadleir, who is the State’s fourth witness to testify in Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla’s trial relating to the 2021 July civil unrest, will continue with her testimony. On Tuesday, social media posts that allegedly incited and encouraged violence were shared on three major WhatsApp groups of some of the active coordinators of the…
ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula addresses a media briefing. The African National Congress (ANC) National Executive Committee (NEC) has called on members of the executive to lead the charge in submitting themselves to lifestyle audits, starting with the President. This was one of the resolutions taken at last weekend’s meeting of the party’s top leadership. The…
Modack and 14 co-accused face over a hundred charges, including murder The state presented electronic device location pins, or pings, to the Western Cape High Court in Cape Town, in the trial of underworld figure Nafiz Modack and his co-accused Zane Killian. Prosecution is slowly moving to prove a case that the two accused had…
The NPA head Advocate Shamila Batohi. National Director of Public Prosecutions, Advocate Shamila Batohi, is expected to testify on Wednesday at the Nkabinde Inquiry in Pretoria. The delayed list of targeted witnesses by the NPA has led to the re-scheduling of her testimony. She was scheduled to testify on Tuesday. This was due to outstanding…
Accused in the Meyiwa murder trial The state is expected to continue questioning Absalom Zungu on his knowledge of the alleged involvement of some of the accused in the murder of Senzo Meyiwa. Zungu has been called to testify by the defence at the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, where five men are on…
File image | KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi. The Madlanga Commission of Inquiry has heard how attempted murder accused Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala allegedly visited General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi at his house. The visit was allegedly over the South African Police Service (SAPS) tender awarded to Matlala’s company, but was subsequently withdrawn. This is according…
FILE PHOTO: A logo of CLOUDFLARE sits outside the company’s house A global outage at web-infrastructure firm Cloudflare began to ease on Tuesday after preventing thousands from accessing major internet platforms, including X and ChatGPT. Cloudflare, whose network handles around a fifth of web traffic, said it started to investigate the internal service degradation around…
The death toll of the tragic N8 crash involving a bus and a truck between Botshabelo and Bloemfontein has risen to eleven. The patient passed on at Pelonomi hospital in Bloemfontein on Monday in the ICU. MEC for Health in the Free State, Monyatso Mahlatsi, visited survivors at Pelonomi hospital. The families of the 10 people…
Proteas Captain Temba Bavuma. South Africa coach Shukri Conrad hailed captain Temba Bavuma as one of the best batters in the world over the past two years after his gutsy match-winning innings at Eden Gardens secured a 30-run win in the first test against hosts India. Bavuma remains unbeaten in his 11 tests as skipper,…
