University of Fort Hare’s main campus in the Eastern Cape. The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) says it welcomes confirmation by President Cyril Ramaphosa that the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) is still probing alleged academic fraud at the University of Fort Hare in the Eastern Cape. The party says it wants a speedy resolution to allegations…
Lekompo musician Lehlogonolo ‘Shebe Maburna’ Chauke in court The Polokwane Magistrate’s Court has denied bail to Lekompo musician Lehlogonolo ‘Shebe Maburna’ Chauke. He has been in custody since November 2025. Chauke brought a new bail application based on what his defence described as new facts after his initial application was denied. His legal representative, Advocate…
Madlanga Commission of Inquiry commissioners Suspended Director for Asset Protection Services at the Tshwane Metro Police Department (TMPD) Tshukudu Malatji has testified that he was unable to implement an instruction by Deputy Police Chief Revo Spies, to cancel all ad hoc security contracts. Malatji is appearing before the Madlanga Commission, where he has been implicated…
Sign displaying the direction in which the voting station is located The seventh democratic Local Government Elections (LGE) will be held on the 4th of November. President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the date at the extended President’s Coordinating Council Meeting, in Boksburg, east of Johannesburg. JUST IN | President Cyril Ramaphosa says 4 November has been…
Suspended Director for Asset Protection Services at the Tshwane Metro Police Department, Tshukudu Malatji. The Madlanga Commission of Inquiry has rejected suspended Tshwane Director for Asset Protection Services in the City of Tshwane Metro Police Department, Tshukudu Malatji’s, application for a postponement. Malatji’s legal representative, Sibusiso Nkosi, told the commission in Pretoria that his client…
FILE: Suspended Director for Asset Protection Services at the Tshwane Metro Police Department, Tshukudu Malatji. Suspended Director for Asset Protection at the Tshwane Metro Police Department (TMPD), Tshukudu Malatji, returns to the stand at the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry on Thursday morning. The commission continues with evidence from the City of Tshwane, where various top…
FILE | Women holding placards calling for an end in GBV. A KwaZulu-Natal family of a young woman, Ntokozo Ziqubu, who was shot and killed in August 2023, is seeking justice nearly three years later. According to her family, three alleged perpetrators who had earlier gone to her home looking for her later found her…
FILE | Cricket stumps on the field. Off-spinning all-rounder Nensi Patel and batter Izzy Sharp are set to make their Women’s Twenty20 World Cup debuts after being named in the New Zealand squad for the tournament in England in June, the country’s cricket board announced on Wednesday. Sophie Devine, Lea Tahuhu and Suzie Bates were…
Forensic team arrives at the crime scene. Police in KwaZulu-Natal say the two crime intelligence police officers who were ambushed by armed suspects earlier on Thursday in Mount Edgecombe north of Durban were on an undercover operation. One officer was killed and another wounded in a crossfire with suspects. Speaking at the scene, South African…
Zambia’s President Edgar Lungu speaks at a rally in the capital Lusaka, Zambia on January 19, 2015. A Civic Movement Progressive Forces of South Africa (PFSA) is picketing outside the High Court in Pretoria ahead of the case between the Zambian government and the family of the late former president Edgar Lungu. The matter concerns…
