Category: SA News

No power for Soweto, The Vaal residents as Eskom implements “load reduction” Eskom deliberately cut power to many communities in these parts of Gauteng at 5am, saying it was implementing so called “load reduction”. JOHANNESBURG – Thousands of people in Soweto and The Vaal once again woke up without electricity on Thursday morning. Eskom deliberately […]

The comments follow just after reports of an arrest warrant for Ace Magashule in connection with tender corruption during his tenure as Free State Premier. FILE: ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule. Picture: @MYANC/Twitter JOHANNESBURG – The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA)’s Investigative Directorate said if it was to arrest African National Congress secretary general Ace Magashule, it […]

The Gupta brothers are heavily implicated in state capture and are believed to be living in Dubai. FILE: Hermione Cronje. Picture: YouTube screengrab. CAPE TOWN – The head of the NPA’s investigative directorate said a failure by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to cooperate with South African law enforcement agencies did not mean the Gupta […]

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 […]