Crime scene. The state has added another case to the ongoing trial linked to the killing of 18 people at Ngobozana village in Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape last year. The trial of the six accused has been adjourned until tomorrow by the Mthatha High Court Special Sitting in Lusikisiki Magistrate’s Court. The state has…
ANC flag. The ANC in the Free State says action will be taken in municipalities following damning revelations during an oversight visit by Parliament’s Portfolio Commitee on Cooperative Governance in the province last week. The committee has indicated that the province has the worst performing municipalities with no clean audits. The ANC’s Provincial Working Committee…
ActionSA President HermanMashaba and Deputy President MbahareKekana in Rustenburg to join councillors who will be laying criminal charges against the municipal manager for fraud and corruption. ActionSA President Herman Mashaba and the party’s councillors in Rustenburg Local Municipality, North West, have opened a fraud and corruption case against the Municipal Manager, Advocate Ashmar Khuduge. The…
[FILE IMAGE]: Judge President Dunstan Mlambo. President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed Justice Dunstan Mlambo as Deputy Chief Justice. The Presidency confirmed this in a statement on Thursday afternoon. The appointment comes into effect from Friday, 1 August 2025. Judge Mlambo has since November 2012 served as Judge President of the Gauteng Division of the High…
Four people lost their lives after their bus lost control Northern Cape police are investigating a case of culpable homicide following a fatal bus crash that claimed the lives of four passengers today. The crash happened when a long-distance bus that was traveling from Johannesburg lost control and overturned on a bridge between Britstown and…
SAPS ‘arrest’ graphic. Two men have been arrested in connection with the murder of a KwaDukuza Local Municipality official Nokulunga Happiness Mashabane at the end of June. The 31-year old Mashabane’s body was found inside her vehicle along the Zinkwazi Link Road in the early hours of the morning. A private security firm worked with…
[FILE IMAGE]: Deputy President Paul Mashatile hosts Roundtable on Political and Administrative Interface. Parliament’s Ethics Committee has found Deputy President Paul Mashatile guilty of failing to declare a diamond gift from criminally accused businessman, Louis Liebenberg. Mashatile has been fined R10,000. The Ethics Committee has also resolved that Mashatile be reprimanded in the National Assembly….
Guns and ammunition. Eastern Cape police have arrested a fourth suspect in connection with the murder of the Chief Whip in the Emalahleni Local Municipality, Xoliseka Lali. He was arrested in Mthatha following an intensive police investigation. He further led investigators to a friend’s house where three unlicensed pistols and ammunition were recovered. Lali was…
Police vans at the scene of an arrest. Gauteng police have arrested a man in his 40s in connection with a stolen vehicle and found unlicensed ammunition in his possession. The suspect was nabbed during Operation Shanela in Alexandra, Johannesburg. Provincial Police Commissioner Tommy Mthombeni says the vehicle crime investigation unit confirmed that the…
Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago. Reserve Bank Governor, Lesetja Kganyago, says the Monetary Policy Committee has decided to cut the repo rate by 25 basis points to 7%. This means that the prime lending rate drops to 10,5%. Kgyanyago was speaking in Pretoria. The MPC also cut the repo rate by 25 basis points at…
