[File photo] A farmer holds a cannabis plant. 1 minute Researchers at the North West University say their recently approved IKS Matekwane Sandbox is a significant milestone in ensuring people are able to access opportunities to participate in the commercialization of cannabis. The university hosted traditional leaders and healers as well as indigenous farmers at…
Handcuffs. 1 minute Police say a group of wanted cash-in-transit (CIT) and murder suspects has been fatally wounded during a shootout with officers at Boksburg in Ekurhuleni on Gauteng’s east rand. The SAPS says firearms, including an AK-47 rifle, were recovered. The suspects are linked to cases in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal Provinces. [BREAKING] Happening now…
Mthatha High Court is a subordinate local seat of the Eastern Cape Division of the High Court of South Africa. 1 minute Members of the legal fraternity have expressed shock at the extent of systemic corruption at the Eastern Cape Division of the High Court in Mthatha. It is alleged that court officials solicit bribes,…
[FILE INAGE]: Large quantity of explosives seized. 1 minute A 28-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly smuggling explosives into South Africa at the Beitbridge Border Post in Musina, Limpopo. Police spokesperson, Malesela Ledwaba says the explosives were concealed in a trailer which was being towed by a vehicle. Ledwaba says the suspect is expected…
A doctor doing rounds in a hospital 2 minutes Healthcare workers’ unions, Public Servants Association (PSA) and the South African Medical Association (SAMA) are calling on the Department of Health to thoroughly investigate allegations of abuse of medical interns in health facilities. This after a 25-year-old doctor Alulutho Mazwi died on Monday after allegedly being…
The 11-year-old Jayden-Lee Meek was found undressed on the staircase of his complex where he lived. 1 minute Residents of Fleurhof in the west of Johannesburg will embark on a march to the Florida Police Station this morning to demand justice for the murder of 11-year-old Jayden-Lee Meek. Police say the boy was dropped off…
A gavel in a court room. 1 minute The Boksburg Magistrate’s Court, east of Johannesburg, has ruled that it will only grant the media permission to record audio and not film the court proceedings of a case against a man accused of raping and impregnating an 11-year-old. Media organizations, including the SABC, had applied to…
Prison cells 2 minutes A man in Limpopo has been sentenced to life imprisonment for raping and assaulting his daughters, aged nine and eleven, and letting other men rape them. The Polokwane High Court heard that the children were staying with the father on a farm in Letsitele outside Tzaneen after their parents divorced in 2022….
Foot of a newborn baby. 1 minute WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT The community of Dysellsdorp near Oudtshoorn in the Little Karoo, Western Cape, is in shock after the body of what’s believed to be a newborn baby was allegedly set alight in a veld. Police say the child’s body was found burnt in a black bag…
The Rooiwal Water Treatment Plant in Pretoria. 1 minute Water and Sanitation Minister Pemmy Majodina says government will not allow Blackhead Consulting, the company previously contracted to upgrade the Rooiwal Wastewater Treatment Works, to get away scot-free. The company linked to businessman and corruption accused, Edwin Sodi, failed to complete the refurbishment project. The City…
