Witness Lorentia Lombaard testifies in the Joshlin Smith case. 2 minutes A Section 204 witness has taken the stand in the Joshlin Smith kidnapping trial being heard in the High Court sitting at Saldanha Bay on the Cape West Coast. A Section 204 witness is someone who was potentially implicated in a crime, but becomes…
A motorists drives through rainy weather. 1 minute The South African Weather Service (SAWS) has issued a warning for Level 2 for severe thunderstorms across Gauteng. This could lead to localised flooding and damage to infrastructure. Residents are urged to stay indoors if possible and when outdoors, not to seek shelter under isolated trees or…
Severe weather conditions in KwaMakhutha township south of Durban. 2 minutes The eThekwini Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal says it has activated the Joint Disaster Management Centre in response to a Level 6 alert for disruptive rains that could lead to flooding from Thursday into Friday. The severe weather conditions are expected to hit areas along the coast…
City Power employees working on powerlines. 1 minute Johannesburg’s City Power says it has lost R1.5 billion to ageing infrastructure in the past financial year. City Power CEO Tshifularo Mashava addressed the media in Fordsburg, Johannesburg, this morning on the entity’s operations and new developments. Mashava says some of the infrastructure is over 90 years…
South African Police Service logo. 1 minute The Bushbuckridge Magistrate’s Court in Mpumalanga has postponed the murder case of a police officer Nyiko Nyathi. 42-year-old Nyathi is facing two counts of murder. She allegedly killed her husband, Lawrence Mashego and Victoria Lebyane in February 2024. Mashego was kidnapped by a group of armed men at…
[File photo] A man handcuffed. 2 minutes Gauteng police have arrested one of the prisoners who escaped from the Maputo Maximum Prison in Mozambique at a car hire dealership in Sandton, Johannesburg. The prisoner is one of more than one thousand five hundred prisoners who escaped during Mozambique’s unrest in December. The escapee was arrested…
2 minutes Technology companies attending the electronic voting conference in Cape Town have emphasized the need for digital transformation to enable an electronic electoral voting process in South Africa. The three-day conference, which ended on Wednesday, brought together political leaders, decision-makers, business representatives, civil society, and the public to discuss the feasibility of implementing e-voting…
Joshlin’s mother, Kelly Smith, her boyfriend, Jacquen Appollis, and Steveno van Rhyn are facing charges of kidnapping and trafficking related to the child’s disappearance. 1 minute The trial of the three accused in connection with the disappearance of Joshlin Smith continues on Thursday at the High Court sitting in Saldanha on the Cape West Coast….
The late Constitutional Court Judge Yvonne Mokgoro. 1 minute The family of the late Constitutional Court Justice Yvonne Mokgoro says they seeking justice as the culpable homicide trial of her partner began in the Barkly West Regional Court, in the Northern Cape. The Barkly West Regional Court in the Northern Cape has set aside three…
