IDAC Head Adv Andrea Johnson testifying before the Ad Hoc Committee at Parliament on November 6, 2025. None Profit Organisation (NPO) Public Interest SA says it has formally registered a criminal complaint against the Head of the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (IDAC), Advocate Andrea Johnson. In a statement, Public Interest SA says the complaint has…
Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube addresses the 2030 Reading Panel annual event on February 24, 2026. Education activist Hendrick Makaneta has commended Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube for demanding accountability in the awarding of a R285 million textbook tender. Gwarube has written to the National Treasury after reports that publishing company Lighthouse Publishers Limited was…
Lottery balls The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has recovered over R3 million in stolen lottery funds meant for community development. In 2018, Todi Media was granted R1,5 million for a media project, while Zibsiflo received R1,7 million intended for women’s soccer clinics in the Free State. Investigations revealed the funds never reached their intended beneficiaries…
Late football star Senzo Meyiwa’s murder trial continues at the High Court in Pretoria. Livestream:
Water and Sanitation Minister Pemmy Majodina and Johannesburg Mayor Dada Morero launch the Brixton Reservoir and Water Tower Project. Livestream|
FILE | Sunday Times Editor Makhudu Sefara. The South African National Editors’ Forum (Sanef) has welcomed the decision of its chairperson, Makhudu Sefara, to step aside pending an investigation into allegations of lottery funds misappropriation. This follows the Special Investigating Unit’s (SIU) revelation that a company linked to Sefara had improperly benefited from stolen lottery…
A car is retrieved from the Komati River, where the owner is believed to have drowned, April 2026. Police divers in Mpumalanga will continue their search for a 59-year-old man who was swept away in the Komati River in Komatipoort. Police spokesperson Mavela Masondo says the man’s vehicle got stuck in the river while he…
FILE| Outside the Soshanguve Magistrate’s Court. The case of nine people accused of the murder of Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) part-time lecturer Sifundo Madasi in Soshanguve, north of Pretoria, is set to resume in the Soshanguve Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday morning. The group, which faces a charge of murder, allegedly attacked and killed Madasi…
Accused 1, Muzi Sibiya (blue shirt) speaking to accused 2, Bongani Ntanzi and Mthobizi Mncube during the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial at the High Court in Pretoria. The state in the Senzo Meyiwa trial has taken accused two, Bongani Ntanzi, through common contacts between him and his co-accused. The state is challenging Ntanzi’s testimony that…
Cows seen at a farm Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen is in Argentina to secure a continued supply of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) vaccinations and will travel to Brazil to secure agriculture import deals. Biogenesis Bago, the vaccine manufacturer in Argentina, has been supplying South Africa with millions of doses of vaccines since earlier this year, amid…
