FILE | Women holding placards calling for an end in GBV. A KwaZulu-Natal family of a young woman, Ntokozo Ziqubu, who was shot and killed in August 2023, is seeking justice nearly three years later. According to her family, three alleged perpetrators who had earlier gone to her home looking for her later found her…
FILE | Cricket stumps on the field. Off-spinning all-rounder Nensi Patel and batter Izzy Sharp are set to make their Women’s Twenty20 World Cup debuts after being named in the New Zealand squad for the tournament in England in June, the country’s cricket board announced on Wednesday. Sophie Devine, Lea Tahuhu and Suzie Bates were…
Forensic team arrives at the crime scene. Police in KwaZulu-Natal say the two crime intelligence police officers who were ambushed by armed suspects earlier on Thursday in Mount Edgecombe north of Durban were on an undercover operation. One officer was killed and another wounded in a crossfire with suspects. Speaking at the scene, South African…
Zambia’s President Edgar Lungu speaks at a rally in the capital Lusaka, Zambia on January 19, 2015. A Civic Movement Progressive Forces of South Africa (PFSA) is picketing outside the High Court in Pretoria ahead of the case between the Zambian government and the family of the late former president Edgar Lungu. The matter concerns…
Former NSFAS interim chairperson, Dr Mugwena Maluleke Former National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) interim chairperson Dr Mugwena Maluleke says his resignation has nothing to do with political interference or pressure from the executive. Maluleke has cited personal reasons for his resignation. His departure comes in the midst of high-level board resignations from the scheme,…
Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee, looking into threats of national security, has started considering its draft report. The committee was established last year, following allegations by KZN top cop, Lt-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, of political interference in the highest level of SAPS as well as the infiltration by five major crime syndicates. The…
A petrol station attendant fills up a car ahead of a petrol price increase effective from midnight, at a filling station in Johannesburg, South Africa on May 31, 2022. The Forum for South Africa (FOSA) has criticised the government’s extension of the fuel levy relief, calling it deceptive. On Tuesday, Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana announced…
FILE | The City of Johannesburg’s Emergency Management Services (EMS) firefighters. Two people have died following a shack fire incident at Emdeni Extension in Soweto, Johannesburg. The City’s Emergency Management Services (EMS) says firefighters responded to the blaze at around 5 am. The victims were found burnt beyond recognition. EMS Spokesperson Robert Mulaudzi says the…
Acting Police Commissioner Puleng Dimpane addresses Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Police on April 29, 2026. Acting National Police Commissioner Puleng Dimpane has outlined her commitment to carrying out President Cyril Ramaphosa’s crime-fighting instructions. Dimpane, who was appointed earlier this month after the precautionary suspension of Fannie Masemola, addressed Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Police on Wednesday….
[FILE] President Cyril Ramaphosa President Cyril Ramaphosa says almost all the country’s municipalities are affected by the water crisis. He outlined this at a meeting with leaders at the Presidential Co-ordinating Council in Boksburg, east of Johannesburg, on Thursday. The President announced the establishment of the National Water Crisis Committee earlier this year in response…
