Outgoing National Director of Public Prosecutions, Advocate Shamila Batohi. Retired Justice Bess Nkabinde has granted a request from evidence leaders at the Nkabinde Inquiry to postpone proceedings until Thursday. The delay will allow the panel to determine whether there is a conflict of interest in having outgoing National Director of Public Prosecutions, Advocate Shamila Batohi,…
Outside the Cape Town High Court in the Western Cape. Legal representative of alleged crime boss Jerome Booysen has presented a list of offences for which the state witness known as Mr X might be indemnified and prosecuted for. Advocate Amanda Nel’s cross-examination of Mr X got underway today at the Western Cape High Court. Booysen and 11 co-accused face…
[FILE] Morare Secondary School learners. The Department of Education in North West says its regions are still faced with several parents needing school placements for their children. The department says some parents don’t like the schools where their children have been placed. Education Department Spokesperson, Vuyo Mantshule, says they work every day to assist parents by…
SAPS officers outside Addington Primary School in Durban. Groups protesting against the enrolment of foreign nationals’ children at Addington Primary School are threatening to dump about 40 children displaced by the 2022 floods at this school in Durban’s Point area. This after the KwaZulu-Natal Education Department placed 66 learners who couldn’t get admission at other…
Outgoing National Prosecuting Authority head, Advocate Shamila Batohi. Outgoing National Prosecuting Authority head, Advocate Shamila Batohi, is now seeking assistance from the newly-appointed National Director of Public Prosecutions, Advocate Andy Mothibi, after her request for state-funded legal counsel was rejected by Justice Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi. Batohi’s term officially comes to an end next week. She…
Paramedics and emergency services on site after a scholar transport crash at Lena Ahrens Road near Rhodes Avenue in Glenwood, Durban on 26 January 2026. Nine children have been injured after a taxi used as scholar transport collided with a bakkie on Lena Ahrens Roads in the Glenwood area of Durban. ALS Paramedics Spokesperson Garrith Jamison says the cause…
Tebego Letsie, Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and Training. The Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and Training, Tebego Letsie, says committee members are impressed by the R1 billion infrastructure repair work carried out at the University of Venda in Thohoyandou in Limpopo. Committee members inspected new streets, residences…
MEC for Roads and Transport Kedibone Diale-Tlabela is seen with Minister of Transport Barbara Creecy during a scholar transport safety campaign, E-Thoma-ka-Wena (It Starts with You), in this image captured on 22 January 2026. The Gauteng Department of Roads and Transport says it has intensified its crackdown on non-compliant scholar transport operators in Lenasia. This forms part of…
Zacharia Olivier, who allegedly shot two women on his farm. The lawyer for the third accused in the murder trial of a Limpopo pig farmer, and his former employees, has argued that the farmer and the former farm supervisor, who has turned state witness planned to lie to the court in an attempt to evade prosecution. …
SAPS officers outside Addington Primary School in Durban. Groups protesting against the enrolment of foreign nationals’ children at Addington Primary School are threatening to dump about 40 children displaced by the 2022 floods at this school in Durban’s Point area. This after the KwaZulu-Natal Education Department placed 66 learners who couldn’t get admission at other…
