Year: 2020

Due to the deadly Coronavirus, revellers this year won’t be able to witness the festive lights being switched on, bringing Adderley Street to life. Christmas lights, festive season. Image: Pexels CAPE TOWN – Scores of Capetonians will have to find a new way to ring in the festive season this year. The City of Cape […]

Woman seriously injured in go kart accident in Centurion It is understood the 37-year-old lost control of the go-kart and it crashed into a barrier at a racetrack. Joburg Emergency Management Services suspended ambulance services to Cosmo City on 29 June 2019 after three crew members were attacked and an emergency vehicle was damaged. Picture: […]

Probe under way into Vaal River tragedy that claimed 5 lives Five people drowned on Saturday when the boat they were in capsized near spider valley. The police’s water wing conduct a search and rescue operation on 18 October 2020 for the missing passengers of a boat that capsized in the Vaal River Spider Valley […]

He’s implicated in the rampage where the disgruntled group toppled and set a police van alight expressing outrage at the suspects who were arrested for killing farmer Brendin Horner. Stefanus Johannes Fourie appeared in the Senekal Magistrates Court on 19 October 2020 where he was granted bail. Picture: EWN SENEKAL – A second man arrested […]

health Minister Zweli Mkhize and his wife, Dr May Mkhize, are self-isolating at home after announcing that they contracted the virus. FILE: Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize. Picture: EWN JOHANNESBURG – The Department of Health on Monday said that work would continue in the wake of Minister Zweli Mkhize’s positive COVID-19 diagnosis. Mkhize and his […]

Glen and Vida Rafferty were ambushed at their farm in Normandien in August after returning from a social gathering. Signs at a farm in Normandien, Newcastle, in KwaZulu-Natal where Glen and Vida Rafferty were killed in August. Picture: Nkosikhona Duma/EWN DURBAN – The case against a man charged in connection with the murder of a […]

Duran Visagie was hit by a stray bullet earlier this month. Duran Visagie. Picture: Supplied. CAPE TOWN – The case against two men accused of murdering an 11-year-old boy from Kraaifontein has been postponed for further investigation. Duran Visagie was hit by a stray bullet earlier this month. Trevano Lodewyk and Dimitri Wence were back […]

Upendra Edward Galegedera visited South Africa every few months and would stay in his apartment in Green Point. Upendra Edward Galegedera. Picture: Facebook CAPE TOWN – The family of a British citizen found murdered in his flat in Cape Town two years ago still has no closure and his killer still walks free. Upendra Edward […]

This article first appeared on The Conversation. South Africa’s former Public Protector, Thuli Madonsela, provoked a political storm recently when she suggested that public servants implicated in grand corruption should be given the chance to apply for amnesty. Many South Africans, weary of rampant, unchecked and unaccountable corruption, could be forgiven for asking: what on […]

Lorry petrol bombed in Eerste River City of Cape Town law enforcement officers said that no injuries were reported during the attack. A lorry has been petrol bombed in Eerste River on 19 October 2020. picture: City of Cape Town CAPE TOWN – A lorry has been petrol bombed in Eerste River. The incident happened […]