File Image: Thabo Bester consulting with his legal team Convicted rapist and murderer Thabo Bester is expected to appear in the High Court in Johannesburg on Tuesday. This follows his urgent application challenging charges linked to his escape from custody. Bester escaped from the Mangaung Correctional Centre in Bloemfontein in May 2022 after faking his…
Former apartheid police commander Eugene de Kok giving evidence at the Cradock 4 inquest at the Gqeberha High Court in the Eastern Cape on March 23, 2026. Former Vlakplaas commander Eugene de Kok will be back in the Gqeberha High Court, Eastern Cape, on Tuesday where he will continue his testimony at the Cradock Four…
Bellarmine Mugabe and co-accused Tobias Matonhodze. Bellarmine Mugabe, son of former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, and his co-accused, Tobias Matonhodze, are back in the Alexandra Regional Court on Monday morning. They are accused of shooting a 23-year-old gardener at the Mugabe residence in Hyde Park in February. They face charges of attempted murder, defeating the…
Bellarmine Mugabe, son of former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, and his co-accused, Tobias Matonhodze, are back in the Alexandra Regional Court. Livestream| Bellarmine Mugabe and co-accused back in court:
Proposed Governance Regulations for the NHI Fund have been published. President Cyril Ramaphosa says the implementation of the National Health Insurance(NHI) is key to closing the gap between public and private healthcare in the country. In his weekly letter, he highlights stark inequalities in access to quality healthcare, despite progress in the public system. His…
President Cyril Ramaphoda. President Cyril Ramaphosa says the repatriation and reburial of the 63 remains of the Khoi and San people at Kinderlê near Steinkopf in the Northern Cape is a restoration of dignity for those who were exhumed from the country for scientific and exhibition reasons. Those reburied on Monday were unethically exhumed and…
Lilly Mine Families of the three miners who remain trapped underground at Lily Mine in Louisville, near Barberton, Mpumalanga, have expressed disappointment with the government’s lack of action to recover their loved ones’ remains ten years later. Solomon Nyirenda, Pretty Nkambule and Yvonne Mnisi have been stuck in a container since February 5, 2016, which…
File: Graphic of shooting scene Police have launched a manhunt following the fatal shooting of a woman believed to be a lawyer in the Johannesburg CBD earlier on Monday. The 35-year-old woman was shot and killed at the corner of Fox and Joubert Streets. The woman was declared dead on the scene. Preliminary reports indicate…
File: Vaal River North-West University researcher, Professor Wynand Malherbe, has flagged the surging Vaal River pollution as a critical threat to the region’s aquatic biodiversity. Malherbe has been studying the ecological health of the river in the Vredefort Dome area. He says that although animals are still surviving at the river, the abundance of invertebrates and…
Shooting crime scene. Police in Durban have shot and killed four suspects in their suspected hideout in Bellair. The suspects were all wanted for business and house robberies and kidnapping. Police spokesperson Robert Netshiunda says they were tracking the suspects when they pounced on them in the house, believed to be their hideout. BREAKING NEWS…
