Year: 2020

The fraudsters would allege there was an attempt to commit fraud on their account or that a stop order was loaded without their consent. JOHANNESBURG – Capitec Bank is warning of a new con by fraudsters. Capitec asked elderly clients to be aware of people calling them claiming to be from the bank’s anti-fraud division. […]

The mission has drawn widespread attention after abuse allegations emerged in a series of stories by News24. A screenshot of the CRL Commission’s hearings into the KwaSizabantu mission on Wednesday, 7 October 2020. Picture: Nkosikhona Duma/EWN DURBAN – Leaders of the KwaSizabantu mission in KwaZulu-Natal have staged a walkout at the CRL Commission which is […]

Over 1,000 protesters on Tuesday stormed the Senekal Magistrates Court over the murder of farm manager Brendin Horner whose body was found tied to a pole in Senekal last week. Violent demonstration by a group of farmers outside the Senekal Magistrates Court in the Free State on 6 October 2020. Picture: @crimeairnetwork/Twitter JOHANNESBURG – Police […]

His aim is to create awareness about the importance of transport in the economy and to encourage participation in the provincial taxi lekgotla scheduled to take place in Worcester and Cape Town next week. Western Cape Transport MEC Bonginkosi Madikizela in Paarl at the Drakenstein Municipality on Wednesday 7 October 2020. Picture: @MadikizelaBongz/Twitter CAPE TOWN […]

The protesters stormed the court cells where two suspects were being held for the murder of farm manager Brendin Horner. A police vehicle set alight by angry farmers outside the Senekal Magistrate’s Court on 6 October 2020. Picture: @crimeairnetwork/Twitter JOHANNESBURG – A suspect has been arrested in connection with violence at the Senekal Magistrates Court […]

Workers marched through the Pretoria CBD most of the day to register their discontent with the current state of the economy, lack of an efficient public transport system and non-payment of public sector wage increases, among other issues. Workers affiliated to different trade unions marched in Pretoria from Burgerspark to the Treasury in Pretoria on […]

Bongani Makasi was shot and killed in Zwelitsha last weekend. FILE: Picture: SAPS. CAPE TOWN – Police are still hunting down the gunmen who killed a Nyanga man. Bongani Makasi was shot and killed in Zwelitsha last weekend. Makasi was shot seven times. He was with a group of people sitting in a shack, yet […]

Phillip Truter appeared in the Palm Ridge Specialised Commercial Crimes court on Wednesday where he pleaded guilty to fraud, corruption, money laundering and racketeering. Former VBS Bank chief financial officer Phillip Truter in the Palm Ridge Specialised Commercial Crimes Court on 7 October 2020. Picture: NPA. JOHANNESBURG – The NPA said former VBS Bank chief […]

From Wednesday afternoon, Cabinet will be holding a virtual lekgotla, with economic recovery top of the agenda. FILE: Minister in the Presidency Jackson Mthembu. Picture: GCIS JOHANNESBURG – Minister in the Presidency Jackson Mthembu said Cabinet’s two-day lekgotla would focus on how to rebuild the country’s economy following the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. […]

That’s the view of MPs serving on the public works oversight committee which has inspected the controversial infrastructure. Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure Hon Patricia De Lille tabling her department budget vote in Parliament on 10 July 2019. Picture: @DepPublicWorks/Twitter CAPE TOWN – Lawmakers say Public Works Minister Patricia de Lille must be charged […]