Johannesburg MMC for Public Safety, Mgcini Tshwaku is leading a multi-disciplinary team in inspecting a dangerous hijacked building in Marshalltown this Saturday afternoon. The building is reported to contain shacks inside and illegal subdivisions, posing severe fire, health and structural hazards. Recent violent clashes among hijackers over rent collection have heightened fears, leaving tenants at…
Things are beginning to take shape in the Bafana Bafana camp a few days before their highly anticipated opening match of the Africa Cup of Nations against Angola on Monday evening. All 25 players are already in camp after being joined by three overseas-based players who travelled straight to north Africa after being released by…
Phakama Eastern Cape is a new civic organisation that aims to make local government in the province accountable. Newly established civic movement, Phakama Eastern Cape, says its core mandate is to inspire people of the province to challenge and hold government accountable for its inefficiencies and wasting taxpayers’ money. The movement held its launch in…
A police officer searches a vehicle during the Safer Festive Season operation. Gauteng police have arrested 75 motorists for drunk driving at the start of the Safer Festive Season operation over the weekend. The crackdown includes roadblocks, liquor outlet raids and patrols at major transport hubs across the province. More than 1 000 additional suspects…
Police arrested three suspects in Bekkersdal after finding three AK‑47 rifles and ammunition in a vehicle during patrols. Three suspects have been arrested in Bekkersdal on Gauteng’s West Rand after police discovered a cache of illegal firearms. The arrests were made in the early hours of Sunday morning when South African Police Service (SAPS) officers…
High Court sitting in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. Hitman Sabelo Phewa has been handed a life sentence at the Durban High Court in KwaZulu-Natal for the murder of former Richmond municipal manager, Sibusiso Sithole. Sithole was killed in 2017 on his way to a council meeting over fraud and corruption he was investigating. Apart from Sithole’s murder,…
Chris Froome, Four-Times Tour de France winner Four-times Tour de France winner Chris Froome was airlifted to hospital in Toulon after suffering a training crash which left him with broken ribs, a collapsed lung and a back fracture, his team Israel-Premier Tech said on Thursday. The Briton’s team said the 40-year-old suffered the crash on…
ANC supporters Leadership expert Professor Mazwe Majola says it will be hard to prevent African National Congress (ANC) members from talking about leadership succession. Majola is speaking ahead of the ANC National General Council (NGC) that gets underway on Monday. The four-day NGC is the party’s second-highest decision-making body between national conferences and is aimed…
File image: Candle burning during a memorial service. 1 minute The family of the late South African National Defence Force (SANDF) Brigadier-General Joseph Manyatsa has described him as a peace-loving man who respected other people. Brigadier Manyatsa died of natural causes last month. He will be buried in Botshabelo in the Free State later today….
File Image: ANC logo on display at Nasrec Exhibition Centre in Soweto ahead of the ANC’s Policy Conference. Political analyst Sandile Swana says recent developments within the African National Congress (ANC) may indicate that the party is finally adopting the “correct language” on renewal and accountability but warns that this alone will not be enough…
