Municipal Manager Norman Zwanda Kutama Vhembe District Municipality, Limpopo. Some municipal workers at Vhembe District Municipality in Limpopo have embarked on a go-slow demanding the suspension of the Municipal Manager Norman Kutama. Workers are calling for an investigation into Kutama allegedly appointing a company to render VAT collection services related to SARS returns submission, between December…
Five accused in the former Bafana Bafana captain Senzo Meyiwa murder trial appear in the High Court in Pretoria on Apr 22, 2022. Accused No.: 1 in the Senzo Meyiwa trial, Muzi Sibiya, has demonstrated how he was allegedly assaulted at Vosloorus on Gauteng’s East Rand. This follows the In-loco inspection where one of the…
A prison fence. The Northern Cape High Court has sentenced a former South African National Defence Force (SANDF) soldier, Desmond Zwakala, to 20 years direct imprisonment for shooting and killing a Kimberley Boys High learner, Amogelang Assegai. Zwakala resigned from the SANDF this morning after he was found guilty of killing the teenager yesterday. 19-year-old…
A South African National Defence Force soldier. The bail application of 12 South African National Defence Force (SANDF) Special Task Force members accused of murdering Hawks investigator Lieutenant-Colonel Frans Mathipa has been postponed to next Friday for judgment. The Randburg Magistrate’s Court in Johannesburg heard closing arguments from both the defence and the state. The…
Former DP David Mabuza at former Minister Zola Skweyiya’s memorial service in 2018. Residents of Phola Trust in Masoyi, Mpumalanga, have spoken highly of former Deputy President David Mabuza following his passing on Thursday. Mabuza, who grew up in Phola, died in a Johannesburg hospital in Gauteng at the age of 64 following a short illness. The…
Offices of Home Affairs in Cape Town Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Njabulo Nzuza has called on South Africans not to assist illegal immigrants to register their children in the country. He was speaking in Moletjie outside Polokwane in Limpopo where he led the late registration of birth outreach. “If you go to areas towards…
EC Judge President Selby Mbenenge Eastern Cape Judge President Selby Mbenenge has called his third witness, Unathi Sogoni in the landmark sexual harassment probe against him. Sogoni is a stenographer at the Eastern Cape Division of the High Court in Makhanda. Sogoni says she is a former friend of Judges’ Secretary Andiswa Mengo, who is…
Person behind bars The High Court in North West has sentenced four people to various jail terms after finding them guilty of charges, including murder and kidnapping. Their convictions stem from a robbery that took place at the home of one of the four in Rabusula Village near Hammanskraal, in June 2014. Investigations revealed that…
Suspect in Senzo Meyiwa murder case, Muzi Sibiya. Accused one in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial Muzi Sibiya has been demonstrating to the court how he was allegedly assaulted by the police. All the legal representatives of the accused, the prosecution and Presiding Judge Ratha Mokgoatlheng are at a municipal property in Ekurhuleni where the…
SAPS arrest graphic Police have arrested 14 suspects in connection with various shooting incidents in Mitchells Plain on the Cape Flats. Five people were killed and seven others wounded in the area yesterday. Police spokesperson FC Van Wyk says 43 houses in Beacon Valley, Tafelsig and Portlands were searched. He says suspects aged between 20…
