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Tembisa Hospital gates. The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) in Gauteng has confirmed that two preservation orders secured by the Asset Forfeiture Unit have been served on members of two syndicates implicated in fraud and corruption at the Tembisa Hospital. The investigation came as a result of a report from slain whistle-blower and senior Gauteng Health…

Outside the High Court in Pretoria. Judgement in the Thabo Bester and Nandipha Magudumana urgent Netflix application has been reserved until Friday morning at the High Court in Pretoria. The two lovers alleged to be part of a prison escape took streaming company Netflix to court on an urgent application to halt airing of a…

Thabo Bester and his co-accused Dr Nandipha Magudumana appear in court Convicted murderer and rapist, Thabo Bester’s lawyer, Advocate Moafrika Wa Maila says his client will suffer prejudice, as streaming the Netflix documentary will infringe on his right to a fair trial. Wa Maila is addressing the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, where Bester…

[FILE IMAGE]: Deputy President Paul Mashatile speaking during the an event. The defense in the case of eight former members of Deputy President Paul Mashatile’s VIP protection unit wants the viral video depicting them allegedly assaulting civilians to be excluded as evidence in the trial. The accused have brought a section 174 application in the…

Johannesburg Executive Mayor Dada Morero. Johannesburg Mayor Dada Morero has made a commitment to residents of Westbury, Corronationville and surrounding areas, that water supply will be fully restored in the next seven days. Since the early hours of Wednesday morning, disgruntled residents took to the streets to protest against the ongoing water outages in the…

The Constitutional Court has ruled that a section of South Africa’s Births and Deaths Registration Act, which gave women but not men automatic rights to change their surnames after marriage, divorce or widowhood, is unconstitutional. According to Section 26(1)(a) to (c) of the 1992 Act, women could take their husband’s surname after marriage, revert to…

The DA stood outside the Bronkhorstspruit Magistrate’s Court, demanding justice for an 8-year-old rape victim & accountability for the growing crisis of statutory rape, September 11, 2025. Democratic Alliance Federal Chairperson Helen Zille is calling for swift prosecution and a severe sentence for the Deputy Principal at Bronkhorspruit Primary School, who allegedly raped an eight-year-old…

A mourner wearing a t-shirt bearing Chesnay Keppler’s face at her memorial service. The accused in the Chesnay Keppler murder case, Mandla Buthelezi, has been rearrested. Buthelezi, who allegedly killed the Gauteng crime warden in December last year, has violated his bail conditions, and it has thus been revoked. The Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) arrested…

Gun and bullets. Police say a man has been shot and killed in Bonteheuwel on the Cape Flats. Police Spokesperson Wesley Twigg says officers attended to the crime scene earlier today, where they found the victim with multiple gunshot wounds. Twigg says the victim was declared deceased on the scene by medical personnel. He says…