A crime scene. Residents of Orange Farm in the South of Johannesburg have called for more collaboration with the law enforcement in the area to combat crime. Orange Farm is notorious for several criminal activities, including gun violence. A community patrol group called Amadoda Emizi was established, following a mass shooting where a family of…
Runner Patrick Bowman raising funds for life-changing facial operations for children. The Miles for Smiles campaign saw endurance runner Patrick Bowman run 100-kilometres over 15 hours to raise funds for life-changing facial operations for children. A collaboration in partnership with the Smile Foundation, which works with the country’s academic and children’s hospitals to deliver corrective…
Relief for learners and teachers as newly refurbished Menzi High School opens, easing overcrowding after years of delays and disruptions. The KwaZulu-Natal Public Works Department has unveiled a newly refurbished multi-million rand, state-of-the-art school in uMlazi as part of Human Rights Months celebrations, after years of delays. The upgrade of Menzi High School was repeatedly…
FILE | Forensic officials hold a meeting outside a tavern, the scene of an early morning shooting in Bekkersdal township Security strategist Andy Mashaile says the only way to combat serious and violent crime across the country is for intelligence networks within law enforcement agencies to be significantly ramped up. This comes are residents of…
Wastewater-Treatment-Plant The Matjhabeng Municipality Executive Mayor in the Free State says the government has committed over R4 billion to the improvement of the municipality’s sanitation infrastructure. The municipality has been plagued with sewage spillages. Mayor Thanduxolo Khalipha has lauded Water and Sanitation Minister, Pemmy Majodina for her intervention. This as the Minister handed over the…
The Mandisi Tshingana Foundation has handed over a R60000 to a pupil after a video went viral showing him sitting empty-handed while the other students ate pie. The Mandisi Tshingana Foundation says they wanted to bring dignity back to a family in George, in the Western Cape, whose child was humiliated on social media following…
File: Murder investigation graphic. A 79-year-old man has been hacked to death and his home set alight allegedly by a group of angry residents at in Libode in the Eastern Cape. The incident has left more than 20 members of the Mbube family homeless. It is alleged the group of people demanded to see two…
Minister of Corporative Governance and Traditional Affairs The Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Velenkosini Hlabisa, has condemned reports of the coronation of a Nigerian king in the Eastern Cape. The AbaThembu Royal Council says it’s going to write to the Nigerian Consulate in South Africa about the alleged coronation of a Nigerian king…
FILE| Bekkersdal mass shooting crime scene. Residents of Bekkersdal, west of Johannesburg, say they are still living in fear – three months after the deadly shooting incident at the Kwanoxolo Tavern, which claimed the lives of nine patrons. The incident took place around midnight on the 21st of December last year, when a group of…
Bullet casings seen at a crime scene. A 53-year-old police officer has shot and killed a 37-year-old woman before committing suicide at Grootvlei near Balfour, in Mpumalanga. The police captain attached to the Bethal Police Station allegedly forcefully entered the woman’s residence by breaking a window. The deceased has been identified as his female friend….
