A worker shows the mouth of a cow at a cattle shop. As part of precautionary measures, the Eastern Cape government Agriculture Department, has restricted the movement of animals across the province for the next 30 days, except for slaughtering. This after one case of foot-and-mouth disease was confirmed in the Amahlathi Local Municipality. Agriculture…
Traffic officia duting a road safety operation. The Eastern Cape Transport Department says it is hopeful it will keep the downward trajectory of road fatalities in the province until the end of the holiday season. The department says it has recorded a decrease in the number of fatalities recorded on the roads compared to the…
Bitou Municipality Deputy mayor and Ikhwezi Political Party Movement leader, Nokuzola Kolwapi. A new video of the Deputy Mayor of the Bitou Municipality in Plettenberg Bay allegedly firing a gun, shows her handing the weapon to her bodyguard afterwards. The initial video showed Councillor Nokuzola Kolwapi shooting into the air to celebrate her son’s homecoming…
[FILE IMAGE]: Traffic at a border post. The Border Management Authority (BMA) says the Lebombo Border Post is one of the problematic ports of entry to process people into Mozambique. The Lebombo Border Post in Komatipoort has been experiencing an influx of travelers most of them being Mozambicans who are heading back home for the…
NSRI boat during a rescue mission The National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) says their search continues for a teenage boy from Montana who had gone missing at sea in Simonstown near Fish Hoek, Cape Town on Wednesday. Another teenager who was with the missing boy was rescued and taken to hospital. NSRI Spokesperson, Craig Lambinon,…
Police in the North West have embarked on an operation to combat illegal mining activities that have spread to Kroondal area near Rustenburg. This area is neighboring Bapong village that has been plagued by illegal backyard chrome mining. Police made several arrests at Bapong following the deployment of multi-disciplinary teams. In Kroondal, police have confiscated…
File image| A broken windscreen. Limpopo’s Transport department says the number of people who lost their lives in a light delivery truck crash outside Mokopane has risen to six. This after a sixth body was discovered in the river where a light delivery truck hit a bridge on the Marken-Mosesetjane road. The deceased and the…
Handcuffs. Eastern Cape police have arrested two police officers for alleged extortion outside Mthatha. It is reported the officers, aged between 24 and 30 were allegedly visiting taverns in Khambi location, requesting liquor trading licences and further demanding alcohol. Police Spokesperson, Siphokazi Mawisa, says the officials are attached to the Public Order Policing unit. Mawisa…
Bekkersdal shooting crime scene. Gauteng Deputy Police Commissioner Major General Fred Kekana says a team of investigators is probing whether the 11 suspects arrested at a house in Bekkersdal could be linked to the murder of 10 people at a local tavern last Sunday. The 11 suspects comprise of nine undocumented Lesotho nationals and one…
Police officers at the crime scene in Bekkersdal. Police have arrested eleven suspects believed to be linked to Bekkersdal mass shooting at the KwaNoxolo tavern in Bekkersdale on Gauteng’s West Rand last week. The suspects were found in possession of multiple firearms including an AK47 rifle. Ten people were killed, while ten others are in a…
