Malatji denies role in TMPD ad hoc security contracts

Madlanga Commission of Inquiry commissioners Suspended Director for Asset Protection Services at the Tshwane Metro Police Department (TMPD) Tshukudu Malatji has testified that he was unable to implement an instruction by Deputy Police Chief Revo Spies, to cancel all ad hoc security contracts. Malatji is appearing before the Madlanga Commission, where he has been implicated…

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President announces 4th November as date for LGE

Sign displaying the direction in which the voting station is located The seventh democratic Local Government Elections (LGE) will be held on the 4th of November. President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the date at the extended President’s Coordinating Council Meeting, in Boksburg, east of Johannesburg. JUST IN | President Cyril Ramaphosa says 4 November has been…

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Madlanga Commission rejects Malatji’s application for a postponement

Suspended Director for Asset Protection Services at the Tshwane Metro Police Department, Tshukudu Malatji. The Madlanga Commission of Inquiry has rejected suspended Tshwane Director for Asset Protection Services in the City of Tshwane Metro Police Department, Tshukudu Malatji’s, application for a postponement. Malatji’s legal representative, Sibusiso Nkosi, told the commission in Pretoria that his client…

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Tshukudu Malatji returns to the stand at Madlanga Commission

FILE: Suspended Director for Asset Protection Services at the Tshwane Metro Police Department, Tshukudu Malatji. Suspended Director for Asset Protection at the Tshwane Metro Police Department (TMPD), Tshukudu Malatji, returns to the stand at the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry on Thursday morning. The commission continues with evidence from the City of Tshwane, where various top…

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New Zealand’s Patel, Sharp named in T20 World Cup squad

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…

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Ambushed KZN officers were on undercover operation: SAPS

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…

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Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee has started considering a draft report

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…

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