All four lanes have been completely blocked off to traffic. 2 minutes Twelve people have died and several others left injured, following a bus crash on the R21 northbound near the OR Tambo International Airport, on Gauteng’s East Rand. The accident occurred on the R21 northbound, just after the R24 at the OR Tambo International…
[FILE] The artists are calling on President Cyril Ramaphosa to sign the bill that allows them to earn royalty rights and other essential benefits. 2 minutes Several organisations, including Section 27, Blind SA, and the Information Association of South Africa, are expected to make submissions at the Constitutional Court, calling for the Copyright Amendment Bill…
Initiates walking. Parents in Ntsweletsoku village, near Zeerust in the North West are frantically searching for their children who went missing, last week. They believe that people who run illegal initiation schools in the village might have kidnapped them. About eight young men are still missing while three others were found yesterday. Fourteen illegal initiation…
A crime scene were a shooting happen cordoned off. 2 minutes The death toll in the incident in which patrollers were gunned down in Soshanguve in northern Pretoria has risen to six. Six others are still in hospital. Police Minister Senzo Mchunu, who is visiting the area, has confirmed that an undocumented Zimbabwean suspect has…
Moroadi Cholota appears in the Bloemfontein Magistrate’s Court. 1 minute The Free State High Court in Bloemfontein has once again postponed the pre-trial hearing of Moroadi Cholota to February 7, 2025. Cholota was the personal assistant of former Free State Premier Ace Magashule. She is among 18 accused in the R255-million asbestos scandal, including Magashule….
Commissioners of the Madlanga Inquiry at the inquiry’s sitting in Pretoria, 5 Dec 2025. Police Minister Senzo Mchunu has requested the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry to hear the testimony of eight complainants who have raised concerns about the Political Killings Task Team (PKTT). On Thursday, Mchunu submitted a confidential list of eight names, which he…
Picture that shows a keyboard, cards, chips and dice Rise Mzansi will picket outside the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition in Pretoria, calling for urgent reforms to the country’s gambling laws on Friday. The party plans to hand over a memorandum of demands, outlining the party’s seven-point plan to overhaul the gambling industry. #GamblingReformsNOW…
Outside the Zanzou nightclub in Pretoria. 1 minute Police arrested a 41-year-old man in Yeoville, Johannesburg, in connection with the incident at the Zanzou nightclub in Pretoria. Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD) officers were on patrol in Yeoville when they identified the suspect from videos circulating on social media. After verifying his identity, they arrested…
Empty courtroom 1 minute Two men, Mfanafuthi Madlala and Sifiso Sokhulu, have been sentenced to life imprisonment by the Durban Regional Court. They were found guilty of shooting and killing taxi owner Siyabonga Ngcobo on July 10, 2022, while he was driving his minibus-taxi along Ramchad Road in the Effingham area of Greenwood. Provincial Police…
FILE: Crime scene. 2 minutes Police are investigating a murder case following the discovery of a mutilated body of a 14-year-old girl in Durban Deep, Roodepoort in western Johannesburg. A passerby notified police after finding body under a shrub yesterday. Police say in a statement that the suspects are unknown. The Tshegofatso Pule Foundation has…
