FILE | City of Cape Town Disaster Management’s fire engines. The Cape Winelands District Municipality’s Fire Services says they are responding to three fires in the district. Municipal spokesperson Jo-Anne Otto says the blazes are fuelled by strong winds and thick vegetation. Otto says two private homes and a wooden structure have been destroyed in…
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Vehicle seen parked during a downpour Gauteng is bracing for cold and wet weather overnight. This as the Weather Service issues a Level 2 warning for severe thunderstorms expected across large parts of the province from 2pm today until the early hours of Friday morning. The storms are expected to bring hail, strong winds and…
FILE | Deputy National Police Commissioner General Shadrack Sibiya. Crime Intelligence Head General Dumisani Khumalo says he told Police Minister Senzo Mchunu and National Police Commissioner General Fannie Masemola that suspended Deputy National Police Commissioner General Shadrack Sibiya is among senior police officers identified as being involved with a criminal cartel. Khumalo told the Madlanga…
KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner, Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi The Head of the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (IDAC) Advocate Andrea Johnson has defended one of the investigators for being unable to do his work. This relates to allegations made by KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Lt-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi in Parliament that the investigator concerned was prevented to access crime intelligence information…
A test tube labelled “Mpox virus positive” A 40-year-old KwaZulu-Natal Midland’s man is being treated for Mpox in the Northdale Hospital in Pietermaritzburg. The KwaZulu-Natal Health Department says the patient visited a clinic in the city with symptoms associated with Mpox in mid-October. He was immediately transferred to the hospital. A laboratory test confirmed he…
Investigating Directorate against Corruption (IDAC) Head Adv Andrea Johnson testifying before the Ad Hoc Committee at Parliament on November 6, 2025. The Head of the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (IDAC) Advocate Andrea Johnson has refused to divulge the names of implicated politicians that they are investigating. Johnson is testifying before Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee, investigating…
FILE | India’s Rishabh Pant hits a four off England’s Jack Leach Rishabh Pant will make his return to India’s squad for the two-test series against South Africa, the country’s cricket board announced on Wednesday, marking his comeback from a foot fracture that sidelined him from the series against West Indies. Pant missed the 2-0…
Prisoners behind bars A Free State barber, who preyed on young boys, has been sentenced to four life terms behind bars. The Wesselsbron Regional Court found him guilty of raping four boys aged between 12 and 15 at his shack, which also operates as a salon in Malebogo Township near Hertzogville. The assaults happened…
Two of the accused in the AKA, Tibz murder case, Siyabonga and Malusi Ndimande. The two men linked to the murders of Kiernan ‘AKA’ Forbes and his friend Tebello ‘Tibz’ Motsoane are expected to be extradited to South Africa next Tuesday. Siyabonga and Malusi Ndimande were arrested last year in February in Mbabane in the…
