LIVE: Thabo Bester challenges prison transfer

Convicted murderer and rapist, Thabo Bester, is expected to approach the High Court in Pretoria on an urgent basis to challenge his transfer from the Kgosi Mampuru Correctional Centre in Pretoria to the eBongweni Super Maximum prison in KwaZulu-Natal. Last month, the same matter was struck off the roll. LIVE STREAM: 

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IPID report on the Phala Phala farm robbery has been declassified

Phala Phala farm in Limpopo The report of the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) into the break-in and theft at President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Phala Phala farm has been declassified.    That’s the reply given by acting Police Minister Professor Firoz Cachalia to a written parliamentary question from the ATM.   Cachalia says the report was declassified on…

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Limpopo traditional leader gunned down

FILE | Bullets on top of a table at a police station. A traditional leader has been shot dead and a family member wounded during a robbery at Makhuvha village outside Thohoyandou in Limpopo. The wounded person has been taken to the hospital. Fifty-nine-year-old Chief Ntikedzeni Makhuvha was shot by armed robbers wearing balaclavas and…

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Macpherson authorises legal action against former MK Party MPs

Dean Macpherson, Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure. Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Dean Macpherson says he has authorised court proceedings against three former MK Party Members of Parliament, for unlawfully occupying Parliamentary village properties in Cape Town. The minister says the three were removed from Parliament in August 2024. Macpherson also wants the court…

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EMS confirms six dead in Ormonde building collapse

Johannesburg Emergency Management Services on the scene at the Ormonde building after it collapsed. Six people have died following a building collapse in Ormonde, south of Johannesburg. It has been confirmed that 12 people were in the building. According to EMS, two people remain trapped, one person has been rescued and three people have not…

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Ntuli notes growth in KZN economy

[FILE IMAGE]: KwaZulu-Natal Premier Thami Ntuli speaks during community engagements at Cecil Emmett Hall in Vryheid on November 6, 2025. KwaZulu-Natal Premier Thami Ntuli says the economy of the province has been showing signs of recovery after the devastations caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2021 unrest. Ntuli was delivering his third State of…

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