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This week saw mainly black-owned funeral associations unite under the banner of a Unification Task Team. DURBAN – Funeral practitioners on Wednesday said that government needed to act urgently to formalise the sector in order to benefit consumers. This week saw mainly black-owned funeral associations unite under the banner of a unification task team. They […]

Tharina Human is accused of orchestrating a six-year-old child’s abduction near her school in Vanderbijlpark last year. FILE: Tharina Human, one of four people accused of kidnapping a six-year-old girl outside her school in Vanderbijlpark, appears in court on 11 October 2019. Picture: EWN JOHANNESBURG – The suspected mastermind behind the kidnapping of a six-year-old […]

A Laingville community leader has told Eyewitness News that residents are up in arms, accusing the municipality of lying to them about issues of land and housing in the West Coast town. Police car/van. Picture: @SAPoliceService/Twitter. CAPE TOWN – Residents in the St Helena Bay community of Laingville have again taken to the streets in […]

It’s believed that Munshi was shot six times in Johannesburg on Wednesday after he stopped to check his car which had been rammed at the back. JOHANNESBURG – The South African Medical Association (Sama) has reacted to the murder of specialist anaesthetist Dr Abdulhay Munshi, describing the crime as outrageous and deplorable. It’s believed that […]

Western Cape Premier Alan Winde said that now more than ever, people should take seriously the strongest defences available against COVID-19 – the wearing of masks, sanitising and washing hands and maintaining social distancing. FILE: Western Cape Premier Alan Winde. Picture: Twitter. CAPE TOWN – Western Cape Premier Alan Winde has welcomed the move to […]

GALLERY: Family, friends, dignitaries bid farewell to George Bizos Eyewitness News | World-renowned human rights activist George Bizos died last week at the age of 92. His funeral service was held at the Greek Orthodox Church in Johannesburg and his burial at the Westpark Cemetery in Randburg.

Picture: SAPS Facebook page. JOHANNESBURG – Two police officers on Thursday were shot and wounded during a confrontation with criminals in Centurion, Pretoria. The shoot-out took place on Jacaranda Street just after 9am in the morning. Paramedics said that one officer was shot in the face, while the other took a bullet to the leg. […]

The group said xenophobia remained widespread in South Africa despite a government action plan rolled out in May 2019 to combat ‘intolerance’. FILE: Foreign nationals in their makeshift shelters outside the Central Methodist Mission Church in Greenmarket Square in Cape Town. Picture: Kaylynn Palm/EWN JOHANNESBURG – Foreign nationals in South Africa suffer “routine” harassment, violence […]

As the mastermind of the abduction, Human said that her plan was to extort R2 million from the parents to ease her financial burden. 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 […]

Tharina Human has confessed to kidnapping the six-year-old girl in September last year as well as threatening her father. FILE: Tharina Human, one of four people accused of kidnapping a six-year-old girl outside her school in Vanderbijlpark, appears in court on 11 October 2019. Picture: EWN JOHANNESBURG – The mastermind behind the kidnapping of a […]