[FILE IMAGE]: A placard displayed at a march in solidarity with rape victims at the East London City Hall, Eastern Cape on April 2, 2025. NotInMyName International says it will stage a demonstration outside the Prinshof School for the Blind in Pretoria on Monday. The movement is demanding justice following the alleged sexual assault of…
A person smoking an e-cigarette. The practice of vaping in South African schools is on the increase and detrimental to learners. That’s the submission of some health experts on the public hearings on Tobacco Products and Electronic Delivery Systems Control Bill 2022 held this week. Vaping is the practice of inhaling and exhaling vapour containing…
Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi. KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi has ordered the district commissioner of the King Cetshwayo region to immediately withdraw a constable from all police operations pending an investigation into his alleged involvement in politics. The constable from the Ntambanana Police Station was allegedly seen wearing clothes of a political party and…
SAPS ‘shooting’ graphic Police say a 27-year-old man has been killed in a suspected gang-related shooting incident in the Vrygrond informal settlement near Muizenberg in Cape Town. Police spokesperson Joseph Swartbooi says no arrests have been made. Swartbooi adds that police rushed to Claasen Road where they found the body of a man who sustained…
Stock image of violence against women. The Human Sciences Research Council(HSRC) says there’s high number unreported incidents of Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (GBVF) in the country, allowing perpetrators to walk free. The HSRC has attributed this to the stigma that victims of the violence face. The council’s statement comes during national Women’s Month as the…
6-Year-old Bontle Mashiyane The trial of four people accused of kidnapping and killing six-year-old Bontle Mashiyane is expected to start in the Mpumalanga division of the High Court in Mbombela on Monday. The four were arrested after Mashiyane’s mutilated body was found in bushes. She had been reported missing in 2022. The community had burned…
EWN political journalist and editor, Tshidi Madia. Arrangements for the funeral of Eyewitness News (EWN) Politics Editor Tshidi Madia, are expected to be announced this coming week. She died four days ago at the age of 42. Madia had been admitted to hospital for two weeks after a short illness. Media colleagues, friends and family…
Police officers stand to attention while doing a drill. The Hawks in the Free State say the killing of two police constables inside the Koffiefontein police station in June 2017 is still under investigation. This comes after families and residents raised concerns that the investigations were slow. Family members say for eight years they have…
Buscor, a bus company who trains female bus drivers celebrates women as Women’s Month comes to an end. Women in the transport sector, a traditionally male-dominated industry, have been celebrated in Mbombela, Mpumalanga, to mark the end of Women’s Month. The event was organised by one of the province’s major bus companies, Buscor. Among those…
[File photo] The Chief Executive Officer of Women’s Development Business Trust, Riah Phiyega has called for more proactive measures to eradicate violent crime in the country, especially on the Cape Flats. This, as there has been a surge in violent crimes in the area, and gang-related crimes over the past few months. Phiyega was one…
