National Director of Public Prosecution Advocate Shamila Batohi briefing media on progress made in the Venda Building Society Mutual Bank investigations. 2 minutes National Director of Public Prosecutions, Shamila Batohi, has highlighted salary dispensation as one of the challenges causing setbacks in the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA). Batohi says this has led to the NPA…
African National Congress (ANC) Deputy President Paul Mashatile address the Liberation Movements Summit on July 26, 2025. African National Congress (ANC) Deputy President Paul Mashatile has challenged liberation movements to reflect deeply. Addressing the 2025 Liberation Movements Summit yesterday, Mashatile asks, “Are our movements still vehicles of justice, or have they become platforms for status…
[File image] A laptop computer and papers seen in a company’s boardroom 1 minute Mpumalanga Premier Mandla Ndlovu has instituted an investigation into the provincial Education Department’s procurement of 22 laptops valued at over R2 million. Ndlovu says he has noted public interest in the matter and, therefore, transparency will be applied in dealing with…
[File photo] 3 minutes More than 50 people were arrested on Saturday morning following a joint police operation in the Johannesburg CBD. Operation NomakanjaniManje Namhlanje is aimed at targeting undocumented foreigners, as well as general crime prevention. Amongst those arrested are suspects found in possession of drugs, suspected stolen copper cables, and undocumented foreign nationals….
South African Weather Services has issued a warning for severe thunderstorms. 1 minute The South African Weather Service says KwaZulu-Natal residents should brace themselves for wet weather conditions over the next few days. Weather forecaster Sihle Dlamini says various parts of the province can expect up to a 60% chance of thundershowers. “We have 60%…
File image | Two staff members were shot at the Inxiweni Primary School in Tembisa, Ekhurhuleni. Two more suspects have been arrested in connection with a double murder at the Inxiweni Primary School in Tembisa, Ekurhuleni, last week. This brings the number of suspects to four. Hope Shongwe and Benjamin Maditse, appeared briefly in the…
The accused Bellarmine Mugabe and Tobias Matonhodze A lack of electricity at the Alexandra Magistrate’s Court in Johannesburg has led to the postponement of the case of the son of the late former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and co-accused. Bellarmine Mugabe and co-accused Tobias Matonhdze appeared in court on Thursday morning, and they will be…
KwaZulu-Natal Hawks Head Major-Gen Lesetja Senona KwaZulu-Natal police have responded to claims made by KwaZulu-Natal Hawks Head Major-Gen Lesetja Senona that he was kicked out of his office and his devices confiscated on the instruction of the Provincial Police Commissioner Lt. Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi. Senona further claimed that after being removed from the office, he…
2 minutes Lawyers for Human Rights is demanding that the government provide R7.8 million to fund the retrieval of illegal miners still trapped at Stilfontein’s Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in the North West. The matter awaits a Constitutional Court ruling to determine whether the responsibility lies with the state or the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine. On Thursday,…
1 minute The Senzo Meyiwa murder trial continues at the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria. Live proceedings below:
