Former police Sergeant Rachel Kutumela, her sister Anna Shokane and daughter Florah Shokane, appear before the Polokwane Magistrate’s Court for a bail application on 24 July 2025. The bail application of the Limpopo police officer who stands accused of insurance murders, together with her co-accused, has been postponed to Friday. Former police sergeant, Rachel Kutumela,…
African People’s Convention (APC) party leader, Themba Godi. The African People’s Convention (APC) says coalition governments will be a key feature of the upcoming local government elections. The party is discussing coalition frameworks and candidate deployment at its Election Summit taking place in Johannesburg, this weekend. It says it is ready to enter coalitions in…
Stolen copper cables 1 minute A Rustenburg Local Municipality employee and five foreign nationals have been arrested for possession of stolen copper cables and transformer components. The stolen items were found at the premises of the municipal employee in Tsitsing village near Rustenburg in North West. This follows a tip-off from the public regarding municipal…
[File photo] The City of Cape Town’s Metro Police officer. 2 minutes The City of Cape Town’s Metro Police says they have rescued two people from alleged armed kidnappers. Metro police Spokesperson, Ruth Solomons, says one woman and three men were accosted by three armed suspects when they were about to enter a shop in…
[File image] George building collapse 2 minutes The National Home Builders Registration Council is in the process of instituting disciplinary action against its suspended CEO, Songezo Booi, following the collapsed building at George in May last year. This came out during a meeting of Parliament’s Human Settlements Committee. The previous board of the council took…
A 37-year-old woman from Tafelsig, Mitchell’s Plain, is expected to appear in the Bellville Magistrate’s Court today in connection with the kidnapping of a newborn baby at the Middestad Mall in Bellville at the weekend. The suspect allegedly lured the mother, 25-year-old Imaan Sharmar, to the mall for a workshop on support for young mothers….
Statistician-General Risenga Maluleke meets with the delegation from Namibia’s Statistics Agency at Statistics South Africa’s (Stats SA) Head Office in Pretoria on May 12, 2025. 1 minute Statistician-General Risenga Maluleke has called on Capitec CEO Gerrie Fourie to publicly present his method of determining South Africa’s unemployment rate. This comes after Fourie questioned Statistics South…
DA leader John Steenhuisen. 2 minutes Democratic Alliance (DA) leader John Steenhuisen has extended the party’s condolences to the friends and family of a long-time party member and ambassador to Thailand, Douglas Gibson. Among others, Gibson served as a chief whip of the Democratic Party and continued to be a member of the Democratic Alliance….
FROM LEFT: Memory Chirere, Dr Ignatius Mabasa and Tinashe Muchuri at last year’s book fest IN its third year, the Harare Open Book Festival continues to grow in patronage and impact on the literary community. This year’s edition, themed Necessary Conversations, will be held tomorrow at The Garden in Newlands, Harare. NewsDay Life & Style…
Three business owners have been shot at the Johannesburg CBD Ethiopian nationals running businesses in the Johannesburg CBD say that they are being targeted. This comes after the Gauteng Police have launched a manhunt for two masked gunmen who shot and killed three foreign national shop owners inside a fast-food outlet in the Joburg CBD….
