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In a wide-ranging interview with EWN, DA interim leader John Steenhuisen lambasted Mbali Ntuli for criticising the party in the media. FILE: Interim DA leader John Steenhuisen. Picture: @alanwinde/Twitter DURBAN – Democratic Alliance (DA) interim leader John Steenhuisen said that criticism of the party’s federal legal commission by former youth leader Mbali Ntuli was not […]

Tharina Human is starting her effective 10-year sentence after she formally confessed to kidnapping the child last year and threatening to extort R2 million from her parents. FILE: Tharina Human has pleaded guilty to being the mastermind behind the kidnapping of a 6-year-old girl from her Vanderbijlpark school. Picture: EWN JOHANNESBURG – The lawyer representing […]

Gender violence researcher at the University of Johannesburg, Lisa Vetten, said that the plan was just the latest in a succession of plans. President Cyril Ramaphosa. Picture: @PresidencyZA/Twitter CAPE TOWN – A well known gender-based violence specialist has poked holes in the president’s hot spot approach to the problem. On Wednesday, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced […]

The administrators took control of state-owned SAA in December after almost a decade of financial losses and published a rescue plan in June following repeated delays and wrangling over its future. FILE: South African Airways planes. Picture: Facebook.com JOHANNESBURG – Administrators at struggling South African Airways (SAA) have called creditors to a meeting for Friday […]

The Department of Basic Education announced that it was replacing the exams for grades 10 and 11 with controlled tests due to the trimmed curriculum. JOHANNESBURG – As final school year exams draw closer, teachers’ unions on Thursday said that the Department of Basic Education’s (DBE) decision to scrap exams for grade 10 and 11 […]

CEO of the South African Liquor Brandowners Association, Kurt Moore, said that the extension of trading days was a step in the right direction but not far enough for the sector that was struggling to recover from the two waves of bans on sales during the lockdown. FILE: SAB beer crates are being gathered as […]

Lungisa was convicted of the assault of a fellow councillor in 2016. He handed himself over to authorities on Thursday and was greeted by a crowd of supporters outside the North End Prison in Port Elizabeth. FILE: Andile Lungisa. Picture: Supplied CAPE TOWN – Former African National Congress (ANC) Nelson Mandela Bay councillor, Andile Lungisa, […]

Mngoma, who is the estranged wife of former Cabinet minister Malusi Gigaba, approached the courts to challenge the validity of her arrest. FILE: Norma Mngoma appears before the Pretoria Magistrates Court on 14 September 2020 after she was arrested in July on charges of malicious damage to property and crimen injuria. Picture: Abigail Javier/EWN. JOHANNESBURG […]

All four kidnappers pleaded guilty in the Palm Ridge High Court on Thursday with the mastermind Tharina Human slapped with a 10-year prison term. FILE: (From left to right) Tharina Human, Laetitia Nel and Pieter van Zyl appear in the Vanderbijlpark Magistrates Court on 19 September 2019 for the kidnapping of of a six-year-old girl […]

CT police probing murder of off-duty police officer in Khayelitsha The 43-year-old sergeant, stationed at the Harare Police Station, was murdered while sitting in his vehicle in front of his home. Police car/van. Picture: @SAPoliceService/Twitter. CAPE TOWN – Western Cape police are investigating a murder case after an officer was killed in Harare, Khayelitsha. An […]