LIVE | Land Reform and Restitution Minister Mzwanele Nyhontso signs the title deed. Land claimants in the Eastern Cape have lambasted the Land Reform and Restitution Department’s officials for failing to properly administer the payment of land claims. The claimants were addressing their grievances in a Land Imbizo led by Minister Mzwanele Nyhontso in Stutterheim…
A confiscated gun. A police anti-kidnapping task team has arrested two men, aged 34 and 45, in Meyersdal, Johannesburg, on Monday. The arrests followed days of surveillance and intelligence operations across provinces where suspects involved in the moving of unlicensed firearms were identified. The suspects were caught with 30 unlicensed 9mm firearms, believed to be…
Lt General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi. The Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution (Casac) has welcomed a briefing by the acting Deputy Chief Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga, on the timelines of his Commission, that will investigate allegations of corruption in the police force and judiciary. The allegations by KZN Provincial Police Commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi implicated…
Western Cape High Court. The trial within a trial regarding cellphone records in the case of alleged gang boss, Jerome Booysen is set to continue on Tuesday in the Western Cape High Court. Booysen is disputing the use of information of intercepted phone calls during the trial for murder death of steroid kingpin Brian Wainstein….
[File image] Police in KwaZulu-Natal are appealing to the public for assistance in tracking down a man suspected of committing a double murder. Twenty-year-old Zethembe Mzulwini was arrested in January for the unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition. He allegedly shot and killed two siblings at their home in Folweni, in southern Durban, in…
Court hearing A 35-year-old man accused of murdering his 79-year-old father at Botshabelo in the Free State has opted to represent himself in court. This is despite caution from the magistrate that he has the option of taking legal aid. Lefu Posholi was arrested last week after being in hiding for more than two weeks….
Tiffany Meek, the mother of the late Jayden-Lee appears in court The case against Tiffany Meek, accused of killing her son Jayden-Lee Meek, has been postponed to Tuesday for judgment on her bail application. Defence lawyer Noven Naidoo delivered his closing arguments during Meek’s bail hearing at the Roodepoort Magistrate’s Court earlier today. State prosecutor…
Court proceedings in the case of a woman accused of snatching baby at a mall in Cape Town, 3 July 2025. The lawyer of a 37-year-old woman accused of kidnapping a nine-day old baby from the Middestad Mall in Bellville in Cape Town last month has welcomed the decision by the court to grant her…
Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga speaking during an event. Chairperson of the Commission of Inquiry into Criminality, Political Interference and Corruption in the Criminal Justice System, Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga says that the work of the Commission has commenced in earnest. The Commission held its inaugural press briefing in Sandton today, assuring the public that its first consultation…
Sign showing road closure Traffic authorities in Limpopo say the R521 Polokwane-Dendron Road has been closed just outside Polokwane due to a collision between a tanker and a light delivery truck. Authorities say the closure is a precautionary measure as a tanker is carrying flammable liquid, posing a risk of explosion. Motorists travelling between Dendron…
