Tembisa residents in the East Rand blockade roads during protest on July 21, 2025. Reports from Tembisa on the East Rand allege that police have fired rubber bullets at protesting residents. Motorists have been warned to brace for severe traffic delays. Residents of Tembisa have shut down entrances and exits to the area in protest…
Police graphic with crime scene tape and ammunition. Police are probing a double murder after a man and a woman were gunned down in Lentegeur in Mitchell’s Plain on the Cape Flats. Police spokesperson Joseph Swartbooi says another man was wounded in the shooting and was taken to the hospital. Swartbooi says the suspects fled…
EFF Leader Julius Malema. The East London Regional Court in the Eastern Cape is expected to hear closing arguments in the firearm discharge case against Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema and his bodyguard, Adrian Snyman. Malema is accused of discharging a firearm during the party’s fifth anniversary celebrations held at Sisa Dukashe Stadium…
A man’s testkit and R50000 reward has been issued regarding a school incident Police in Cape Town have released an identikit of a man wanted in connection with allegations of malicious intent. According to police spokesperson Joseph Swaartbooi, the suspect approached an aftercare teacher at an educational institution in Bellville, asking about the whereabouts of…
The City of Tshwane says they will investigate money expenditure in an abandoned housing project The City of Tshwane has explained why nearly 1 000 people are still living in temporary asbestos housing units in Mamelodi, Pretoria. The city says that a contractor it had appointed to build permanent structures abandoned the project. The affected…
Jayden-Lee Meek who was murdered in Fleurhof. The bail hearing of the mother of 11-year-old Jayden-Lee Meek is expected to continue in the Roodepoort Magistrate’s Court in western Johannesburg on Monday. Tiffany Meek is charged with the murder of her son, and defeating the ends of justice. On Friday, she told the court through her…
[FILE IMAGE]: SAPS officers making an arrest. Over 200 suspects have been arrested in the Northern Cape for murder, rape, assault with the intent to do grievous bodily harm, illegal possession of firearms and for dealing in drugs. The suspects were apprehended during week-long Operation Shanela across all five districts in the province. Provincial Police…
[FILE IMAGE]: Doctors during a pediatric donor surgery. The Department of Health is embarking on a massive campaign to encourage members of the public to donate body organs and tissues in a bid to save lives. Department’s spokesperson, Forster Mohale, says there are more than 2,000 patients awaiting organ and tissue donors across the country….
Minister of Higher Education and Training Dr Nobuhle Nkabane. South African National Editors’ Forum’s Amina Frense says there is lack of government accountability to curb corruption on tender irregularities in the country as a whole. Frense has pointed to the appointments of ANC Youth League members who are unqualified, to public hospital boards in Gauteng…
[FILE IMAGE]: Hand tools for illicit mining found by members of the SA Police Service. Police in Mpumalanga have arrested more than 20 suspected illegal miners in different areas this weekend. Fifteen of the zama-zamas were allegedly found in possession of explosives in Barberton. Eight of the suspects were arrested in the Pilgrim’s Rest area….
