Handcuffs and fingerprints. More than 90 suspects have been arrested for sexual offences in just one week across South Africa. This is part of a 90-day nationwide operation led by the South African Police Service. The intensified blitz aims to fast-track efforts to combat and prevent gender-based violence and femicide in the country. SAPS spokesperson,…
SAPS vehicle Deputy National Police Commissioner Tebello Mosikili says their safety program launched for the festive season will continue beyond the period. Mosikili was speaking in Cape Town during the inspection of the national safer season operations programme. She was addressing more than 400 newly appointed constables. “We do that diligently, focused and professionally, we are not going to go out there and make…
Funeral service Khethamabala Petros Sithole 1 minute Funeral service of Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) leader and member of Parliament Khethamabala Petros Sithole, in Nkandla, northern KwaZulu-Natal, on Sunday. Sithole was gunned down during a shooting at the Buyafuthi Hostel in Katlehong, Gauteng, last week. Live proceedings below: IFP president Velenkosini Hlabisa will deliver the eulogy.
File image: Classroom. 1 minute The Special Action Committee for Education (SAC) says they are disappointed that their case against the Western Cape Department of Education has been struck off the court role. The committee applied for an urgent interdict to restrain the provincial department from cutting more than 2400 teaching posts. In August last…
FC Barcelona’s Ferran Torres scores their fourth goal. 2 minutes Barcelona’s Ferran Torres scored twice to help secure a late 4-2 comeback win at Atletico Madrid in a pulsating LaLiga clash yesterday that took the Catalans back to the top of the table. Barca have 60 points and a game in hand after last week’s…
Mayoral Committee for Finance Loyiso Masuku and Johannesburg Mayor Dada Morero. The results of the election of the ANC’s Greater Johannesburg Regional Structure are expected to be released this morning. Counting of ballots is underway at the ANC’s regional conference, which started on Wednesday in Sandton. The Electoral Commission has confirmed that 301 accredited delegates…
Margaret Arnolds taking oath of office The City of Johannesburg council has re-elected Margaret Arnolds as the Speaker of Council. The AIC candidate was elected by 137 votes. She was nominated alongside the Democratic Alliance’s Alex Christians who received 68 votes. And the UDM’s Yongama Zingela received 5 votes. The position became vacant after ActionSA’s…
File image: Nehawu members down tools. 1 minute The National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) is today expected to submit a memorandum of demands to the National Treasury and South African Reserve Bank (SARB) in a bid to prevent the impending liquidation of Ithala Bank. According to Nehawu, the bank’s more than 400…
Court gavel. 1 minute The bail hearing of the terror financing case against Ziyadh Hoorzook has been postponed to Wednesday 15 January. Hoorzook will remain in police custody at the holding cells at the Lichtenburg Police Station in North West. He was arrested at his home in Johannesburg, last week following a lengthy probe into suspicious…
Members of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) seen outside one of the organisation’s offices. 2 minutes The South African National Defence Union (SANDU) has backed comments made by SANDF Lieutenant General Peter Ntshavheni Maphaha over the weekend. Maphaha accused the government of running a “Mickey Mouse” defence force. This comes after 14 SANDF…
