Celebrations at the Castle for Heritage Day The Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town has paid tribute to unsung struggle stalwarts to mark Heritage Day. They include those who fought against armed colonial oppression. Many tribes took up arms against Dutch and British colonialists in the 1870s. A member of the Klipfontein Aboriginal Royal…
A man holding a gun A man has been shot and killed at Westridge in Mitchell’s Plain on the Cape Flats. Police spokesperson Wesley Twigg says the 37-year-old’s body was found on an open field next to a primary school. Twigg says the motive for the attack is yet to be determined. He says no…
Minister of Electricity and Energy Kgosientsho Ramokgopa is briefing the media briefing on interventions aimed at ending load reduction. LIVE STREAM:
File: A minibus is pulled over at a Gauteng roadblock. The Gauteng Transport Department is cracking down on lawlessness in the taxi industry, removing dozens of unroadworthy minibuses from the road and finding hundreds of drivers without operating licences. A further 184 minibus drivers were found operating without valid driver’s licences. The operation comes amid…
Person using a cellphone The South African Prisoners Organisation for Human Rights (SAPOHR) has criticised a proposal by Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis for cellphone signal-blocking technology to be used at Pollsmoor Prison. In a formal letter to Correctional Services Minister Pieter Groenewald, the mayor says inmates are using mobile phones to orchestrate crime from…
Judge’s chair and gavel in a courtroom. The 39-year-old woman arrested for the alleged possession of human tissue in Lydenburg, Mpumalanga, has been granted bail of R10 000. Rose Mnisi appeared in the Mashishing Magistrate’s Court. Mnisi, who is reported to be working in the Lydenburg Hospital’s maternity ward, was allegedly found in possession of…
Millions of rands worth of abalone have been caught in two separate instances in the Western cape by police. Fisheries Minister Dion George has welcomed the arrest of alleged abalone poachers and smugglers in two separate incidents in the Western Cape this week. Police intercepted a truck near Rawsonville in the Boland on Monday and…
[File Image] A student displays his hands painted with messages as he poses during an HIV/AIDS awareness campaign to mark the International AIDS Candlelight Memorial, in Chandigarh, India, on May 20, 2018. The civil society organization Treatment Action Campaign has raised concerns over the plans to shut down UNAIDS, a United Nations body that coordinates the…
Ditsobotla Municipality head office building The embattled Ditsobotla Local Municipality council has re-elected Molefe Morutse as Mayor. This move comes after national government intervened to address the municipality’s chronic governance and administrative failures, including financial mismanagement and service delivery breakdowns. Earlier this month, the national Department of Cooperative Governance visited the troubled municipality and instructed…
FILE | Minibus taxis at a rank. The Western Cape Department of Mobility says they are continuing to monitor six closed taxi routes in the Somerset West area. The 30-day route closures are between Mfuleni, Somerset West, Khayelitsha, Nomzamo and Lwandle. The closures came into effect following the killing of at least eight people in…
