1 minute A suspect has been arrested in connection with a triple murder in Delft on the Cape Flats. Police Spokesperson Andre Traut says officers made the arrest after discovering three bodies in Gushindoda in the area yesterday morning. Traut says the victims were gunned down and their bodies were set alight. The suspect will…
[File Image] Mothers of three mine workers, namely, Yvonne Mnisi, Pretty Nkambule and Solomon Nyirenda, whose remains are yet to be retrieved underground at Lily Mine, 7 years later, September 2023. 1 minute Families of three Lily Mine employees trapped underground in Barberton, Mpumalanga, have again accused the government of failing to retrieve their remains,…
1 minute Commuters in Johannesburg will need to find alternative transport again this morning as Rea Vaya bus services remain suspended until further notice. The suspension follows the fatal shooting of two bus drivers in separate incidents in Soweto on Monday evening. One driver was shot in Mapetla, and another was killed in Protea Glen,…
A gavel in a court. 1 minute One of the witnesses testifying at the Highgate Hotel Massacre inquest has told the Special Tribunal in East London that she has forgiven the perpetrators and called on the survivors to do the same. She believes this will enable them to get closure and move on with life….
File image of pills. 2 minutes A group of unemployed pharmacists who have completed community service are calling on the Limpopo Department of Health to employ them permanently. The pharmacists picketed outside the Department’s offices in Polokwane. Most of them were funded by the Department to study pharmacy. They say after spending two years doing…
File Image: A farmer inspects the soil ahead of planting. 2 minutes Deputy President Paul Mashatile has reassured South Africans on the nature of the Land Expropriation Act. Mashatile addressed the South African Local Government Association’s (SALGA) National Executive Committee Lekgotla in Cape Town, Western Cape today. “There are those who are scared, of course,…
Lily Mine. 3 minutes A prayer was held ahead of the Lily Mine commemoration in remembrance of Pretty Nkambule, Yvonne Mnisi and Solomon Nyirenda. The three were trapped underground when the mine collapsed nine years ago. To this day their remains have not been retrieved. “When this time comes, it becomes difficult on the family’s…
Murder accused Reinhardt Leach. 2 minutes The trial of Reinhardt Leach, accused of murdering Vicky Terblanche, has been remanded until Wednesday in the High Court in Gqeberha. This comes as the state began calling witnesses as it lays out its case. Leach stands accused on eight charges related to the murder of his girlfriend, Vicki,…
1 minute KwaZulu-Natal Police have confirmed that one of the suspects linked to Tuesday morning’s cash-in-transit heist on the N2, near the NPC cement Factory in Durban, has been shot and killed in a shootout with police on Moore Road in Durban. A second suspect was injured in the shootout and has been arrested. Police…
Canola plants blossom in a field beneath electricity pylons 1 minute The Soweto Electricity Crisis Committee and the United Front’s Trevor Ngwane say load reduction reflects government’s and Eskom’s failure to expand electricity supply at a rate that meets the needs of the masses. Dr Ngwane made an oral submission at the load reduction inquiry…
