FILE: Wits University student, Olorato Mongale. 2 minutes Families and friends have paid tribute to the late Olorato Mongale during a prayer service at her home in Bloemfontein. Speaker after speaker comforted Mongale’s family and instilled hope. 30-year-old Mongale’s body was recovered on Sunday in Johannesburg after she had left to go on a date…
Minister of Higher Education and Training 2 minutes Higher Education Minister Nobuhle Nkabane has defended her decision to withdraw the appointment of board members of the Sector Education and Training Authority (SETA). The minister was grilled by members of the Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and Training about the reasons for withdrawing the appointments. Nkabane…
Handcuffs seen together with a gavel. 1 minute Free State police have arrested a 50-year-old man from Brackenfell in the Western Cape following a cyber sexual offences investigation involving minors. Police spokesperson Mahlomola Kareli says the arrest follows a complaint lodged by a clinical psychologist at a school in Dewetsdorp in February this year, alleging…
Car burglary 1 minute Police have identified the top hijacking hotspots across the most populated provinces for January to March of this year, with Ivory Park and Mamelodi East in Gauteng taking the first and second positions in the country respectively. Mamelodi East recorded an 80 percent increase in the number of hijackings year on…
FILE PHOTO: A man vapes at a coffeeshop. 1 minute The Heart and Stroke Foundation is alarmed by how the tobacco industry focusses on young customers through its marketing. This as today marks World No Tobacco Day. The global theme this year aims to expose industry tactics on tobacco and nicotine products, including vaping and…
A health agent prepares an anti-malaria injection. 1 minute The University of Cape Town (UCT) has played a pivotal role in developing an action plan to combat rising drug-resistant malaria in Southern and Eastern Africa. Senior lecturer at UCT, Stephanie Van Wyk says the initiative is supported by regional health ministers and is a significant…
Person with a knife 1 minute A woman has been stabbed to death, allegedly by her boyfriend, in Malamulele, Limpopo. The suspect has been arrested after initially fleeing the scene. Police say the victim was stabbed in her rental room in Malamulele Section A. The motive for the killing is unknown. Police spokesperson Malesela Ledwaba…
Prison cell 2 minutes The Nelson Mandela University (NMU) has welcomed the life sentence handed down by the George Magistrate’s Court in the Western Cape to a former student, for the murder of a fellow student at the George campus in June last year. Earlier this year, 24-year-old Luyanda Mahlanza was found guilty of murdering…
Retired Anti-Gang Unit Head, Major-General Andre Lincoln (left) with President Cyril Ramaphosa. 1 minute The African National Congress in the Western Cape has called upon the provincial government to grant Cape Town police Major-General André Lincoln an official Provincial Funeral. He died at home in the early hours of this morning. Lincoln was in his…
Prison cells 1 minute A former councilor in the Okahlamba Municipality at Bergville in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) has been sentenced to life imprisonment after the Ladysmith Regional Court found him guilty of murdering his fiancé and their three children. Forty-eight-old Michael Buthelezi was a DA councilor when there was a fire at his home in the…
