Former Speaker of the National Assembly Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula appears in court, December 5, 2024. The corruption case of former National Assembly Speaker, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, continues in the High Court in Pretoria on Monday. The court is expected to receive a progress report on the case, which has seen significant delays. The former speaker faces 12…
Postbank employees assist social grant beneficiaries. 1 minute The Postbank has assured Parliament that it will administer social grants competently. This follows the South African Social Security Agency’s (SASSA) slow process to change its gold to black Postbank cards. Portfolio Committee on Communications and Digital Technologies , 18 February 2025 — Parliament of RSA (@ParliamentofRSA)…
Handcuff and a gavel in court. Six suspects, aged between 19 and 59 years-old, have been arrested in Newscom near Pienaar in Mpumalanga for allegedly taking part in a mob justice incident where a 53-year-old man was fatally assaulted. The man was previously accused of attempting to rape a 23-year-old mute woman. A video of…
Police seized counterfeit goods valued at more than R260 million Police in the North West have seized counterfeit goods worth R260 million. This was done through the police’s operation aimed at dismantling the illegal trade in counterfeit and illicit goods across the country. The integrated operations were led by the National Counterfeit and Illicit Goods…
Newly elected Deputy Judge President, Dunstan Mlambo The judicial watchdog Judges Matter researcher Mbekezeli Benjamin believes that the appointment of Judge Dunstan Mlambo as the Deputy Chief Justice will benefit the judiciary. The position has been vacant since Chief Justice Mandisa Maya assumed her role at the Apex of the judiciary in September last year. …
MEC of Police Oversight and Community Safety, Reagen Allen (Left) and Western Cape Provincial Commissioner, Lt Gen Thembisile Patekile (Right) presenting the 2nd quarter of 2022/2023 crime statistics for the Province last year in November. 3 minutes Western Cape Police Commissioner, Thembisile Patekile, says gang-related murders remain high despite several alleged gang leaders being in…
FILE | Scene of an accident in Carlswald, Midrand, Gauteng on March 31, 2023. 2 minutes Transport Minister Barbara Creecy says last year, the cost of road crashes sat at more than R200 billion. She says road crashes have an impact on society and also hits the economy hard. Creecy revealed the figures during the…
Pathisa Nyathi HISTORIAN Pathisa Nyathi, who died last week, will be laid to rest at Lady Stanley Cemetery in Bulawayo today, a cemetery reserved for the city’s luminaries. Nyathi passed away at a private hospital in Bulawayo on Saturday due to a yet-to-be-disclosed illness, but recurring condition. He was 73. He had been in and…
An e-hailing car was torched at Maponya Mall, in Soweto. The Mvelase family says the untimely death of their son, Mthokozisi, was a great loss. The e-hailing driver was shot and torched outside Maponya Mall in Soweto a few weeks ago. It is believed he was killed by taxi operators who objected to the presence…
Infrastructure damaged caused by floods. Eastern Cape Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) MEC Zolile Williams says the disaster relief funding by the national government is not enough to cater for all the damages and losses caused by last month’s floods. The province will receive R504 million from national government’s R1,2 billion disaster recovery grant…
