Traditional healer dealing in traditional medicines. Traditional healers in North West, under the leadership of the North West Dingaka Association, gathered at the Mmabatho Stadium in Mahikeng to celebrate the International African Traditional Medicine Day. The International African Traditional Medicine Day is celebrated annually to honour the vital role of traditional medicine in providing accessible…
Lt General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi made the damning allegations during a media briefing in Durban. The KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner, Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, has made public WhatsApp conversations from seized cellphones that allegedly show a link between a member of a crime syndicate, an associate of the Police Minister, and Minister Senzo Mchunu himself. Mkhwanazi made the damning…
Minister of Police Senzo Mchunu is back appearing before the Parliament Adhoc Committee. All eyes are on Police Minister Senzo Mchunu, who is on special leave, as he appears before the Ad Hoc Committee investigating allegations raised by KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi. LIVESTREAM:
CONTRALESA president Chief Lameck Mokoena The Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (CONTRALESA) has urged those who are tasked with the selection of the new Head of the National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) to ensure that they recommend a person with good credentials. A panel is interviewing six candidates to replace Advocate Shamila Batohi, whose office term will…
Outside the Randburg Magistrate’s Court . 1 minute The Randburg Magistrate’s Court has postponed the case of the woman facing charges of possession of child pornography and money laundering to Tuesday for a formal bail application. The 25-year-old Web Designer, briefly made her first court appearance this morning, following her arrest in Houghton, Johannesburg last…
Police emblem ActionSA has expressed concern over a delay in the release of South Africa’s crime statistics for the first quarter of the 2025/26 financial year. The figures were due at the end of August, the same period in which SAPS released last year’s data. The delay comes amid deepening turmoil within the Police Ministry,…
Handcuffs and fingerprints. More than 90 suspects have been arrested for sexual offences in just one week across South Africa. This is part of a 90-day nationwide operation led by the South African Police Service. The intensified blitz aims to fast-track efforts to combat and prevent gender-based violence and femicide in the country. SAPS spokesperson,…
Pylons carry electricity from a sub-station of state power utility Eskom outside Cape Town in this picture taken March 20, 2016. 3 minutes Eskom’s proposed increase in electricity tariffs has been opposed by various stakeholders as well as members of the public. Nersa’s public hearings on Eskom’s proposed electricity tariff hike are under way in…
A man carrying a gun in a picture depicting gun violence and gangsterism. Two men have been killed in a suspected gang-related shooting incident in Schaapkraal in Philippi, on the Cape Flats. Police spokesperson, Wesley Twigg, says the men were sitting in their car when the suspects opened fire on them. “Upon arrival on the…
A piece of arid land. Minister for Women, Youth and Persons with Disablities, Sindisiwe Chikunga, says the country’s land restitution process continues to disadvantage women 30 years into democracy. [WATCH] Minister Sindisiwe Chikunga has launched a Women’s Trade Dialogue themed “Building Resilient Economies for All.” She says this is a great opportunity for women in…
