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Known as the country’s murder capital, yet another woman was found dead in a bush on Saturday. FILE: A police van seen in Delft following a shooting. Picture: EWN CAPE TOWN – The Delft Community Policing Forum (CPF) on Tuesday said its residents had become desensitised to the ongoing murders. Known as the country’s murder […]

City of Cape Town said it would be opposing the application to review a decision to move the primate – known as Kataza – from the Slangkop Troop to Tokai. Kataza the baboon sits on the wall of a Tokai home. Picture: Lizell Persens/EWN CAPE TOWN – The matter around a Kommetjie baboon’s future will […]

Maluleke will be the country’s first woman to be appointed as the head of the Chapter 9 institution. Tsakani Maluleke. Picture: @tsakanimspice/Twitter CAPE TOWN – Members of Parliament on Tuesday heaped praise on Tsakani Maluleke, who is set to be the next Auditor-General. Maluleke will be the country’s first woman to be appointed as the […]

“The Economic Freedom Fighters rejects with contempt the appointment of Ranjeni Munusamy as the political secretary to the Minister of Finance,” the EFF said in a statement. JOHANNESBURG – The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) on Wednesday gave Treasury seven days to remove former journalist Ranjeni Munusamy as as political secretary to Finance Minister Tito Mboweni, […]

Transnet finance executive Yousuf Laher on Wednesday Laher took the stand at the commission to mainly respond after he was implicated by former electrical engineer Francis Callard. A screengrab of Transnet finance executive Yousuf Laher appearing at the state capture inquiry in Johannesburg on 21 October 2020. Picture: SABC/YouTube JOHANNESBURG – Transnet finance executive Yousuf […]

Nigerians have been demonstrating nationwide every day for nearly two weeks against the police unit that rights groups had for years accused of extortion, harassment, torture, and murders. Hundreds of Nigerian nationals living in South Africa on 21 October 2020 took to the streets of Pretoria in protest against the widely criticised Special Anti-Robbery Squad […]

Receiving treatment in isolation is a lonely and fear-filled experience for most COVID-19 patients and ‘Quintin’ is doubling as a communication tool for family members to ‘see’ their relatives. ‘Quinton’ the robot is being used at the Tygerberg Hospital to reduce the risk of health workers being exposed to COVID-19. Picture: Supplied CAPE TOWN – […]

The provincial executive committee, in a statement, raised concern over the association being used by ‘dishonest figures’ seeking to score political points. FILE: Members of the Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans Association march to Luthuli House. Picture: EWN JOHANNESBURG – The Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans Associations (MKMVA) provincial executive in the Eastern Cape is […]

The crash involved a minibus taxi and a truck. Thirteen people were killed on 21 October 2020 in a major crash on the R66 between Ulundi and Melmoth in KwaZulu-Natal. Picture: @_ArriveAlive/Twitter JOHANNESBURG – Police on Wednesday said that they would launch a high-level investigation looking into Wednesday’s morning’s accident in Ulundi that claimed 13 […]

They’re angry about the widely criticised Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), which has been accused of harassment, torture and murders for years now. Hundreds of Nigerian nationals living in South Africa on 21 October 2020 took to the streets of Pretoria in protest against the widely criticised Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) back home. Picture: Veronica Makhoali/EWN. […]