File: A minibus is pulled over at a Gauteng roadblock. The Gauteng Transport Department is cracking down on lawlessness in the taxi industry, removing dozens of unroadworthy minibuses from the road and finding hundreds of drivers without operating licences. A further 184 minibus drivers were found operating without valid driver’s licences. The operation comes amid…
Person using a cellphone The South African Prisoners Organisation for Human Rights (SAPOHR) has criticised a proposal by Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis for cellphone signal-blocking technology to be used at Pollsmoor Prison. In a formal letter to Correctional Services Minister Pieter Groenewald, the mayor says inmates are using mobile phones to orchestrate crime from…
Judge’s chair and gavel in a courtroom. The 39-year-old woman arrested for the alleged possession of human tissue in Lydenburg, Mpumalanga, has been granted bail of R10 000. Rose Mnisi appeared in the Mashishing Magistrate’s Court. Mnisi, who is reported to be working in the Lydenburg Hospital’s maternity ward, was allegedly found in possession of…
Millions of rands worth of abalone have been caught in two separate instances in the Western cape by police. Fisheries Minister Dion George has welcomed the arrest of alleged abalone poachers and smugglers in two separate incidents in the Western Cape this week. Police intercepted a truck near Rawsonville in the Boland on Monday and…
[File Image] A student displays his hands painted with messages as he poses during an HIV/AIDS awareness campaign to mark the International AIDS Candlelight Memorial, in Chandigarh, India, on May 20, 2018. The civil society organization Treatment Action Campaign has raised concerns over the plans to shut down UNAIDS, a United Nations body that coordinates the…
FILE | Minibus taxis at a rank. The Western Cape Department of Mobility says they are continuing to monitor six closed taxi routes in the Somerset West area. The 30-day route closures are between Mfuleni, Somerset West, Khayelitsha, Nomzamo and Lwandle. The closures came into effect following the killing of at least eight people in…
Napoleon Nyalunga to be sentenced for German tourist’s murder
Court gavel. The 39-year-old woman arrested for alleged possession of human tissue is expected to apply for bail at the Mashishing District Court in Mpumalanga. It is alleged that the woman, an employee of the Lydenburg Hospital, was found in possession of a plastic bag containing placentas. The provincial Health Department has since indicated that…
Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis is scheduled to appear in the Bishop Lavis Magistrate’s Court today after an application for a harassment order was filed against him. The application was filed by a resident of the Bothasig area a few months ago who alleges that law enforcement officers have been…
King Toni Mphephu Ramabulana. A member of the Vhavenda royal family and defence witness in the court battle for the throne is expected to continue on the witness stand in the High Court in Polokwane, Limpopo, on Thursday. When the matter adjourned on Tuesday, Elisah Mashamba told the court that the late King, Patrick Ramaano…
