Ambulance in the Eastern Cape Five EMS workers employed by the Eastern Cape Health Department have briefly appeared before the East London Commercial Crimes Court. They allegedly fraudulently falsified their matric certificates in order to gain employment as Basic Ambulance Assistants. The incident happened in 2015 after a whistleblower alerted authorities and a case was…
Cows on a farm The Western Cape Department of Agriculture has placed three properties where cattle are kept under quarantine, for suspected Foot and Mouth disease. The department’s spokesperson Mary James says the provincial Veterinary Services placed a property in Gouda in the Cape Winelands District under quarantine after animals from the Free State with…
Accused number 1 in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial, Muzi Sibiya. The state in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial says they have reason to believe that accused number one, Muzi Sibiya, was using a different number to communicate during the period the soccer captain was killed. Meyiwa was shot and killed in October 2014, while…
Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi speaks at a government function. Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi says all citizens deserve quality healthcare, regardless of their socio-economic status. Motsoaledi was speaking at the G20 health minister meeting in Polokwane, Limpopo. He says that they will collaborate with countries such as Norway, which already has universal healthcare, to…
FILE: Blue lights of a police vehicle. The Randburg Magistrates Court has dismissed an application by Deputy President Paul Mashatile’s former bodyguards to have the case against them dropped. Eight VIP protectors are out on R 10 000 bail. In 2023, a video emerged showing the accused assaulting occupants of a VW Polo on the…
A police officer operating a stop-and-go search. The SA Police Service has taken Operation Shanela 2 to the streets of Kagiso, west of Johannesburg, on Thursday morning. The coordinated, intelligence-driven campaign aims to curb and prevent violent crime in the country. Police say these efforts will continue ahead of and throughout the festive season, as…
Christo van der Rheede is the Executive Director of the FW de Klerk Foundation. The FW de Klerk Foundation has urged government to declare gangsterism a national crisis, following a spate of recent gang-related killings that left six people dead and three injured in Reiger Park, Boksburg. The foundation, along with crime and security experts,…
Western Cape Premier Alan Winde addresses the Freight Forum on August 29, 2025. The Cape Crime Crisis Coalition (4C) has accused Western Cape Premier Alan Winde of political hypocrisy for refusing to release a report on alleged links between police and gangs. The organisation has given him until Friday to make the report public or…
The Senzo Meyiwa murder trial continues at the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria. Live proceedings below:
A medical staff member holds a bottle of anti-typhoid vaccine. Authorities are investigating a spike in reported cases of Typhoid Fever in several neighbourhoods around Pretoria. Typhoid is an infectious bacterial fever with an eruption of red spots on the chest and abdomen, which is often accompanied by severe intestinal irritation. According to Mayor Dr….
