FILE| Mthatha High Court in the Eastern Cape. The cross-examination of state witness, Lwando Abi, will continue today in the trial of six men accused of killing 18 people in Ngobozana village in Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape. The incident happened in September 2024. Fifteen women and two men died in the shooting, while a…
Mpumalanga Health MEC Sasekani Manzini introduces Dr Shongwe to the Matsulu community in Mpumalanga. The Mpumalanga Health Department has deployed 25 permanent medical doctors to clinics in its quest to strengthen the primary health care service in rural areas. The doctors have been deployed to community health centres in Matsulu, Msogwaba and Mbombela. Provincial Health…
KwaZulu-Natal Acting Deputy Police Commissioner Anthony Gopaul KwaZulu-Natal Acting Deputy Police Commissioner Anthony Gopaul has detailed how Police Minister Senzo Mchunu called him showing interest in a case that involved the killing of an African National Congress councillor Phendukani Mabhida. Gopaul is testifying before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry which has resumed its hearings in…
Outgoing National Director of Public Prosecutions, Advocate Shamila Batohi. Retired Justice Bess Nkabinde has granted a request from evidence leaders at the Nkabinde Inquiry to postpone proceedings until Thursday. The delay will allow the panel to determine whether there is a conflict of interest in having outgoing National Director of Public Prosecutions, Advocate Shamila Batohi,…
Outside the Cape Town High Court in the Western Cape. Legal representative of alleged crime boss Jerome Booysen has presented a list of offences for which the state witness known as Mr X might be indemnified and prosecuted for. Advocate Amanda Nel’s cross-examination of Mr X got underway today at the Western Cape High Court. Booysen and 11 co-accused face…
[FILE] Morare Secondary School learners. The Department of Education in North West says its regions are still faced with several parents needing school placements for their children. The department says some parents don’t like the schools where their children have been placed. Education Department Spokesperson, Vuyo Mantshule, says they work every day to assist parents by…
SAPS officers outside Addington Primary School in Durban. Groups protesting against the enrolment of foreign nationals’ children at Addington Primary School are threatening to dump about 40 children displaced by the 2022 floods at this school in Durban’s Point area. This after the KwaZulu-Natal Education Department placed 66 learners who couldn’t get admission at other…
Outgoing National Prosecuting Authority head, Advocate Shamila Batohi. Outgoing National Prosecuting Authority head, Advocate Shamila Batohi, is now seeking assistance from the newly-appointed National Director of Public Prosecutions, Advocate Andy Mothibi, after her request for state-funded legal counsel was rejected by Justice Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi. Batohi’s term officially comes to an end next week. She…
Paramedics and emergency services on site after a scholar transport crash at Lena Ahrens Road near Rhodes Avenue in Glenwood, Durban on 26 January 2026. Nine children have been injured after a taxi used as scholar transport collided with a bakkie on Lena Ahrens Roads in the Glenwood area of Durban. ALS Paramedics Spokesperson Garrith Jamison says the cause…
Tebego Letsie, Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and Training. The Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and Training, Tebego Letsie, says committee members are impressed by the R1 billion infrastructure repair work carried out at the University of Venda in Thohoyandou in Limpopo. Committee members inspected new streets, residences…
