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…
Joburg MMC for Public Safety Mgcini Tshwaku led a multi-agency raided the Zambezi Building in the CBD where DJ Warras was shot dead. About four people of interest have been taken in for questioning in Johannesburg. This after Johannesburg Member of the Mayoral Committee for Public Safety Mgcini Tshwaku led a multi-agency raided the Zambezi…
Crime scene tape 2 minutes Gauteng police have appealed to communities not to take the law into their own hands. This is after a man was severely assaulted at Slovo Park informal settlement west of Johannesburg. He died from his injuries in hospital. It is believed the community accused him of setting a shack on…
KwaZulu-Natal Premier Thami Ntuli addresses a crowd at an event. The uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party says it is not giving up on its campaign to topple the KwaZulu-Natal coalition government. In December 2025, the party was unsuccessful in its attempt to remove Premier Thami Ntuli through a motion of no confidence. MK Party leaders are currently…
Police vans at the scene of an arrest. Protea Glen ward 135 councillor in Soweto Phelelani Sindani has urged the police to provide its officers with counselling after a female officer was shot and killed by her police captain ex-boyfriend in the early hours of Sunday morning. Sindani says the incidents of police brutally killing…
National Taxi Alliance President, Francis Masitsa National Taxi Alliance (NTA) president, Francis Masitsa has blamed government for the violent killings in the taxi industry and the high crime rate in the country. He was speaking at the funeral of NTA Chairperson in Gauteng, Thamsanqa Moya, in Soweto. Moya was killed in a hail of bullets on…
COSATU members The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) marks 40 years of existence and will use its anniversary to assert relevance amongst the working class. Founded in December 1985, COSATU sought to fight for the rights of workers during the apartheid regime by mobilising workers through national stayaways, strikes and community campaigns. …
FILE PHOTO: A test tube labelled “Mpox virus positive” 2 minutes South Africans have been encouraged to be more vigilant as the new M-Pox variant is said to be highly infectious. Unlike the first variant that was transmitted mainly through sexual contact, skin-to-skin contact and sharing items like bedding and clothing, Clade 1b can be…
Image source: IDT The Mpumalanga High Court was recently closed after an inspection by the Department of Labour and the subsequent findings that highlighted health and safety issues with the building. On Saturday, the DOJ&CD met with the Departments of Employment and Labour (DEL), Public Works and Infrastructure (DPWI), Independent Development Trust (IDT) and the…
At a time the employers have revealed that they are also suffering from the same economic battles, the life of the Zimbabwean employees now hangs in the balance. THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has made a fresh call for employees to be paid in United States dollars until the government is able to…
