Category: SA News

Former Transnet CEO Siyabonga Gama lost an unfair dismissal dispute and the High Court ordered him to pay the costs to Transnet but instead Transnet decided to pay 75% of his costs. FILE: Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo. Picture: AFP JOHANNESBURG – Former Transnet legal head Siyabulela Mapoma said that his superior laughed at him […]

Former President Kgalema Motlanthe, in response to this week’s clash on social media between Minister Fikile Mbalula and the Umkhonto We Sizwe Military Veterans Associations, said that such incidents were just heated but gave no clarity. FILE: Former President Kgalema Motlanthe. Picture: Abigail Javier/EWN JOHANNESBURG – Former President Kgalema Motlanthe on Wednesday said that public […]

SA Express was placed under business rescue in February and the COVID-19 lockdown on 26 March resulted in the grounding of its fleet. Workers said that they had not received any assistance from the Public Enterprises Department. An SA Express airplane. Picture: Supplied CAPE TOWN – SA Express Airways employees want Parliament to intervene after […]

Government has announced the state of disaster will be extended to 15 November, suggesting that the lockdown won’t end until at least then. Cogta Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma briefs the nation on regulations under lockdown level 1, which comes into effect at midnight, on Sunday 20 September 2020., Picture: GCIS JOHANNESBURG – Cooperative Governance and Traditional […]

Angelo Agrizzi has been charged in relation to bribes of R800,000 which were paid to former African National Congress (ANC) Member of Parliament Vincent Smith, whose case was postponed to 3 December. FILE: Angelo Agrizzi appears in the Randburg Magistrate Court on 27 June 2019. Picture: EWN JOHANNESBURG – The State has argued that it […]

The City of Cape Town said that the expenditure on security for land invasions was justified. People take their building materials away as workers (not visible), break down uninhabited shacks in Bloekombos, Kraaifontein, in Cape Town on 6 August 2020. Picture: AFP CAPE TOWN – The City of Cape Town said that land invaders were […]

Abrahams stood guard while Zelda Van Niekerk was robbed and murdered under a bridge along the N1 in the vicinity of Century City but he was charged with common purpose. Murdered biker Zelda van Niekerk. Picture: facebook.com CAPE TOWN – The last of the three men charged with killing a biker along the N1 highway […]

Magistrate Phillip Venter said that he was satisfied with the State’s case that Agrizzi had the financial means to set up and sustain a comfortable lifestyle outside the country’s borders. FILE: Angelo Agrizzi appears in the Randburg Magistrate Court on 27 June 2019. Picture: Sethembiso Zulu/EWN JOHANNESBURG – Former Bosasa chief operations officer, Angelo Agrizzi, […]

The unit on Wednesday updated the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) on its investigations at the power utility, which got underway over two years ago. FILE: Eskom’s Megawatt Park in Johannesburg on 12 March 2015. Picture: EWN CAPE TOWN – The Special Investigating Unit has told Parliament that it was looking to recover more […]

Winde, Fritz welcome redeployment of LEAP officers to crime-hit areas in CT On Tuesday, Premier Alan Winde and the Community Safety MEC Albert Fritz visited Delft which is one of the areas benefitting from the deployment of 70 Law Enforcement Advance Plan officers. Western Cape Premier Alan Winde (centre) on a patrol with local law […]