[FILE IMAGE] An image illustrates a victim of sexual assault clutching their hand, as a result of feeling intense pain. 2 minutes The police captain accused of raping a female trainee has now been charged in a second sexual assault case. The officer, who works as a police instructor, allegedly raped a 20-year-old trainee at…
Khoisan people trying to make fire. 3 minutes Applications for the recognition of KhoiSan Traditional leaders will close on Thursday this week, with threats to take the matter to court already being made. Khoi and San leaders claim the requirements for recognition are unfair compared to those of other cultural communities, like the amaXhosa and…
Suspects accused of killing Senzo Meyiwa at the High Court in Pretoria. 2 minutes A witness from the Legal Practice Council (LPC), Philani Stanley Sambo, has confirmed that Ntokozo Mjiyako was a practising attorney when accused No.: 2, Bongani Ntanzi, allegedly confessed to the murder of Senzo Meyiwa. Ntanzi is said to have made two…
SANDF soldiers. 1 minute The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) has dismissed a news report claiming that SANDF members withdrawing from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are required to surrender their weapons while transiting through Rwanda. It says the article must be condemned in the strongest possible terms as nothing but hearsay. In…
Chief Albert Luthuli was born near Bulawayo in Zimbabwe in 1898. 2 minutes The daughter of the late ANC leader, Inkosi Albert Luthuli has told the Pietermaritzburg High Court that the family believes that her father was hit at the back of his head with a steel object. Doctor Albertina Luthuli, a medical doctor, is…
Handcuffs on the prison cell floor. 1 minute A 47 year old pastor has been sentenced to two life imprisonment for the rape of a 12-year-old girl in the Edenburg Regional Court in the Free State. Police Spokesperson, Martin Xuma, says the victim was staying with the accused when the rape incidents happened. He says…
Marikana informal settlement fire 1 minute The sole survivor of the fire that killed six family members, including a one-year-old, at the Marikana informal settlement in KwaThema, Ekurhuleni, is being treated in hospital after sustaining critical burn wounds. Emergency services responded to the blaze in the early hours of the morning. The survivor, a seven-year-old…
A Starlink satellite internet system is set up on a caravan truck of a tourist, parked in a street in Ronda, Spain February 12, 2024. 1 minute Gadget magazine editor Toby Shapshak believes that Starlink is an advantage for South Africa as it will provide better connectivity to people, especially in the rural areas where…
Court proceedings of the Asbestos trial 1 minute The state has told the Free State High Court that Moroadi Cholota failed to provide evidence of her claims that her extradition was unlawful. The prosecution is arguing that Cholota failed to take the court into confidence that she was tortured and relied only on the state…
The three Radzuma siblings appeared in the Thohoyandou High Court in Limpopo on 08 October 2024. 1 minute The murder trial of three Radzuma siblings accused of murdering two SAMWU leaders is resuming in the Thohoyandou High Court sitting at Waterval outside Louis Trichardt in Limpopo. The union leaders, Timson Musetsho and Ronald Mani, were…
