Category: SA News

The country has been battling ongoing vandalism on public infrastructure for some time now. A bag of copper cable recovered in a joint police operation to clampdown on crime affecting the country’s railway network on 11 September 2020. Picture: @SAPoliceService/Twitter JOHANNESBURG – With suspects arrested in connection with the theft of copper cables on the […]

The Health Ministry says 1,906 new infections were picked up over the past day, pushing the number of known cases in this country to 665,000. This undated handout picture courtesy of the British Health Protection Agency shows the coronavirus seen under an electron microscope. Picture: AFP. JOHANNESBURG – Eighty-eight more people have died in South […]

The Jacob Zuma Foundation said deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo had already made up his mind that he would treat the former president harshly out of self-interest to advance his career. FILE: Former President Jacob Zuma at the state capture commission on 19 July 2019. Picture: Abigail Javier/EWN. JOHANNESBURG – The Jacob Zuma Foundation has […]

It comes less than a week after the lieutenant colonel – who was part of the Western Cape’s Anti-Gang Unit – was gunned down in front of his Bishop Lavis home. Slain Western Cape top cop Charl Kinnear. Picture: Supplied CAPE TOWN – Police have reportedly made a breakthrough in the investigation into the murder […]

Police Minister Bheki Cele said two suspects who got away after a foiled cash-in-transit heist in Dawn Park have been on the police’s radar for years now. Police on the scene of a foiled cash-transit-heist in Dawn Park, Boksburg, on 23 September 2020. Picture: Twitter/@SAPoliceService JOHANNESBURG – It’s emerged a reservist based at the office […]

A group of women is gathering in Roodepoort to take a stand against gender-based violence. FILE: A mourner holds a placard demanding justice for Tshegofatso Pule at her funeral in Meadowlands, Soweto. The murdered 28-year-old was laid to rest on 11 June 2020. Picture: Kayleen Morgan/EWN JOHANNESBURG – Women using this Heritage Day to take […]

Kaizer Maxatshwa was among officials who implemented a controversial R1 billion housing advance payment scheme and was subsequently subjected to a disciplinary process. Free State local government and housing Chief Director Kaizer Maxatshwa at the State Capture Commission on Wednesday. 23 September 2020. Picture: YoutTube Screengrab JOHANNESBURG – Free State local government and housing chief […]

Hawks confirm suspect in custody for Charl Kinnear murder, due in court Fri Charl Kinnear, a top detective in the Western Cape, was gunned down outside his home in Bishop Lavis last week Friday. Charl Kinnear. Picture: Kevin Brandt/EWN JOHANNESBURG – The Hawks have confirmed that a man arrested in connection with the murder of […]

This claim comes after one of Zandile Gumede’s co-accused – the city’s deputy head of supply chain management, Sandile Ngcobo – was brought back to work and assigned to a new department this week. Zandile Gumede. Picture: @eThekwiniM/Twitter DURBAN – The DA in eThekwini is claiming that former Mayor Zandile Gumede is still influencing procedures […]

The prosecutor said that Simon ‘Scorpion’ Ndyalvane had three previous convictions and couldn’t be trusted on bail as he had claimed to have only one conviction. FILE: Scorpion Ndyalvane, Caylene Whiteboy and Voster Netshiongolo on 22 September 2020 made a brief appearance at the Protea Magistrates Court for the alleged murder of 16-year-old Eldorado Park […]