The Madlanga Commission of Inquiry. The Commission of Inquiry into Criminality, Political Interference and Corruption in the Criminal Justice System, also known as the Madlanga Commission, continues hearing witness testimony. LIVE STREAM:
File: An accident scene. A vehicle transporting learners is reported to have crashed in Dawn Park, Boksburg, east of Johannesburg. Details are still sketchy. Between 2018 and 2022, over 800 learners have been killed in crashes involving scholar transport vehicles. Concerns are being raised about the rising number of crashes involving scholar transport. In January…
Rachel Kutumela, her sister Anna Shokane and daughter Flora Shokane jovial at the Polokwane Magistrate’s Court ahead of judgement on their bail application on September 3, 2025. The South African Police Service (SAPS) has arrested three more suspects in the case of former sergeant Rachel Kutumela in Polokwane, Limpopo. They say they plan to arrest…
Miners’ boots outside Ekapa Minerals Mine in Kimberley, Northern Cape on February 28, 2026. Members of Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Mineral and Petroleum Resources will visit Kimberley in the Northern Cape on Tuesday. Their visit follows the recovery of the body of one of the five trapped workers at the Ekapa Minerals Mine on Monday….
File: North-West businessman Suliman Carrim North-West businessman Suliman Carrim will face cross-examination when he returns to the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry in Pretoria this morning. Carrim’s accusation of having links to alleged crime kingpin Vusimuzi ‘Cat’ Matlala and businessman Morgan Maumela was at the centre of his testimony yesterday. Carrim says Matlala had asked him…
Tafelkop residents demanding employment at Blue Ridge platinum mine Community members in and around Tafelkop area outside Groblersdal, in Limpopo, marched to and submitted a memorandum at a local mine. Residents are demanding employment at Blue Ridge Platinum Mine. Since 2011, the mine has been under care and maintenance but is now being run by…
A damaged vehicle is seen after it was swept away by an overflowing stream at Mokotopong outside Polokwane in Limpopo. Four people have drowned when their vehicle was swept away by an overflowing stream at Mokotopong outside Polokwane in Limpopo. The bodies of two men and two women were retrieved by police divers and Polokwane Municipality’s fire and rescue…
A person in handcuffs following an arrest. Police have arrested more than 16 000 suspects for various crimes during a week-long nationwide crime combating operations which ended on Sunday. During the operations, police seized over 160 illegal firearms, more than 50 stolen vehicles and drugs worth over R2 million. Most of the arrests were made…
Inside a mine shaft The first of the five trapped Ekapa Minerals miners in Kimberley, Northern Cape, has been retrieved. The men have been trapped 890m underground since a mud rush, in mid-February. WATCH | Northern Cape Premier Dr Zamani Saul has described the provisional liquidation of Ekapa Minerals as a double catastrophe. He made…
Water leaking from a tap. The water stressed town of Plettenberg Bay in the Western Cape has moved to level 4 water restrictions due to drought conditions. This comes as the Bitou Municipal Council also declared the area a local state of disaster. The request will now go to provincial and national channels for intervention….
