Category: SA News

Public Enterprises Director-General Kgathatso Thaludi said that government had committed to providing billions of rands to restructure SAA and now needed to establish a mechanism through which to channel the funds. JOHANNESBURG – Public Enterprises Director-General Kgathatso Thaludi said that government had committed to providing billions of rands to restructure SAA and now needed to […]

Grabouw police nabbed the pair during an intelligence-driven operation at the start of the weekend. Western Cape police arrested two men for the possession of crayfish worth more than R6 million. Picture: @SAPoliceService/Twitter CAPE TOWN – Two men arrested for the possession of crayfish worth more than R6 million will make their first court appearance […]

Nehawu submitted a memorandum of demands to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s office two weeks ago but said that it had yet to hear back from the president. Nehawu members picket outside the Union Buildings in Pretoria on 21 September 2020. Picture: Abigail Javier/EWN PRETORIA – Members affiliated to health workers union Nehawu insist that they will […]

Glen Rafferty (63) and his wife, 60-year-old Vida, were ambushed while returning from a social outing late last month. Signs at a farm in Normandien, Newcastle, in KwaZulu-Natal where a farming couple was killed in August. Picture: Nkosikhona Duma/EWN NORMANDIEN – Farmers in Normandien, in northern KwaZulu-Natal, where a prominent farming couple were recently murdered […]

SA COVID-19 death toll closes on 16,000 mark Thirteen more people have died in South Africa after contracting the coronavirus, bringing the death toll to 15,953. FILE: City of Tshwane Health officials conduct screening exercises on people before some of them will be tested for the COVID-19 coronavirus at the Bloed Street Mall in Pretoria […]

Stringent restriction implemented to halt the spread of the coronavirus have been eased to allow more social and economic activity to resume. FILE: Young boys attending a traditional initiation school. Picture: AFP JOHANNESBURG – The Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (Contralesa) on Sunday said that if initiation schools around the country remained closed […]

Lieutenant-Colonel Charl Kinnear was shot and killed outside his home in Bishop Lavis on Friday afternoon. Kinnear was involved in investigations into several high profile cases relating to the gang underworld. Slain Western Cape top cop Charl Kinnear. Picture: Supplied CAPE TOWN – Slain detective Charl Kinnear “pursued justice until the bitter end”. Kinnear’s wife, […]

The children, aged six and eight, were last seen walking home from a hair salon on Friday night. Picture: SAPS Facebook page. ORANGE FARM- As outrage mounts over the latest child murders in Orange Farm, community members are demanding that police question a woman who was allegedly found with a plastic bag containing the victims’ […]

Lieutenant Colonel Kinnear was shot and killed outside his Bishop Lavis home on Friday afternoon. Slain Western Cape top cop Charl Kinnear. Picture: Supplied CAPE TOWN – Non-profit organisation, Forensics for Justice, on Sunday offered a R1 million reward in exchange for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the person or people […]

Police on Sunday confirmed the 13-year-old girl was struck in Kleinvlei in Eerste River on Saturday. She was taken to hospital where she is recovering. Picture: SAPS Facebook page. CAPE TOWN – Another child has been shot and wounded during a suspected rival gang crossfire in Cape Town. Police confirmed the 13-year-old girl was struck […]