A gavel used in the court of law. Fourteen people accused of fraud and corruption will be back in the Polokwane Special Commercial Crimes Court in Limpopo in January next year. They include former African National Congress (ANC) member of the provincial legislature, Tally Mashamaite and former Mogalakwena mayor, Andrina Matsemela. They are facing 107 fraud and corruption charges…
Coach Hugo Broos during training 2 minutes Bafana Bafana coach Hugo Broos says it will be disastrous if they lose a World Cup qualifier game against Lesotho. Broos had addressed media on the readiness of their game against ‘Likuena’. Bafana will lock horns with Lesotho at the new Peter Mokaba Stadium in Polokwane, Limpopo, on…
File: Suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu. Embattled Police Minister Senzo Mchunu is ready to resume his political duties in the African National Congress. That’s according to his spokesperson Sithembiso Mshengu who was speaking at a prayer service in Durban in support of Mchunu. Mshengu says Mchunu intends to write to the African National Congress (ANC)’s…
KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Nhlanhla Mkwanazi addressing the media in Durban, July 6, 2025. KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi says organised crime syndicates have infiltrated the country’s criminal justice system. Mkhwanazi made the damning allegations during a media briefing in Durban. He says a senior police officer and a civilian who are allegedly working with a…
File image Defending champions, South Africa, have been forced into a late change ahead of Saturday’s Rugby Championship test match against Argentina in Durban. Prop Boan Venter will start in the number one jersey in place of Ox Nche, who was forced to withdraw from the team due to an injury. Venter was initially named…
Chief Albert Luthuli and Griffiths Mxenge’s family attend the re-opening of the inquests into their deaths at the Pietermaritzburg High Court in KwaZulu-Natal on April 14, 2025. The inquest into the death of human rights lawyer and ANC activist Mlungisi Griffiths Mxenge is expected to resume in the Pietermaritzburg High Court this week. Mxenge was…
IPHC leader Michael Sandlana. The leader of a breakaway faction of the International Pentecostal Holiness Church (IPHC), Michael Sandlana, is expected to apply for bail in the Specialised Commercial Crimes Court in Pretoria. Sandlana is charged alongside Pretoria High Court Judge Portia Phahlane, her son Kagiso, and his spokesperson Vusi Ndala in a corruption and…
Tax-related material on a desk. 1 minute The Umkhonto weSizwe party says the Western Cape High Court’s decision to suspend the VAT increase only addresses a symptom of a deeper crisis that includes aggressive austerity, restrictive monetary policies and a privatization agenda that the party says is being brutally imposed on South Africans. The MKP…
A hospital ward. The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) says through its preliminary investigations, it has uncovered systemic human rights violations at the Northern Cape Mental Health Hospital and the Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe Hospital in Kimberley. The investigation was prompted by a report from the Health Ombudsman, which revealed alarming systemic failures at both…
Bottles of Coca-Cola. The meeting between the Food and Allied Workers’ Union and Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa has been postponed to the 2nd of October 2025. This after the company and the union had disagreements about the number of representatives that should be allowed in the meeting. Fawu’s General Secretary, Edwin Mabowa, says the next…
