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Case against suspects arrested for drugs worth R87.5m in KZN postponed The trio made its first court appearance on Thursday. KZN police on 9 September 2020 found heroin powder with a street value of about R87.5 million and arrested three suspects. Picture: @SAPoliceService/Twitter DURBAN – Three accused in a massive drug bust in Hluhluwe in […]

Four of its generating units at the Medupi power station have returned to service after a conveyor belt used to move coal broke down. Eskom’s Medupi power station. Picture: Eskom.co.za JOHANNESBURG – Eskom said that it was not planning to implement power cuts on Friday but it warned that if there were any more significant […]

The company and retailer Clicks came under fire over the offensive advert on its website, which called black women’s hair ‘dry, damaged, and frizzy’ compared to a white woman’s hair which was labelled ‘normal’. FILE: Minister of Small Business Development Khumbudzo Ntshavheni. Picture: Xanderleigh Dookey/EWN JOHANNESBURG – The Department of Small Business Development on Thursday […]

Three officers appeared in the dock on Thursday in connection with the 16-year-old’s killing and the events that followed. The three police officers accused of killing Nathaniel appear at the Protea Magistrates court. Picture: Kayleen Morgan/EWN JOHANNESBURG – Nathaniel Julies’ mother on Thursday pleaded with the courts to refuse bail to the police officers accused […]

2,007 new COVID-19 cases recorded as SA recovery rate ticks up to 88.9% The Health Department said that 2,007 new infections were picked up over the past day, pushing the number of known cases in this country to over 644,000. FILE: City of Tshwane Health officials conduct screening exercises on people before some of them […]

Tributes have continued to pour in for the late George Bizos who died at the age of 92 on Wednesday. Thuli Madonsela, Zack Yaccoob, Edwin Cameron and Zelda le Grange have shared their memories of him. FILE: Human rights lawyer George Bizos at the soil turning ceremony at Nelson Mandela’s former home in Houghton, which […]

The sentencing against Nellie Senwametsi, who was caught on video abusing children at the creche were she worked, was postponed in the Oberholzer Magistrates Court on Thursday and will be heard next week. JOHANNESBURG – Non-profit organisation Women and Men Against Child Abuse has called for the former employee of a Carletonville crèche to face […]

No load shedding on Friday, but use power sparingly – says Eskom The utility has managed to stave-off rolling blackouts after it warned of possible stage 2 load shedding at short notice due to a faulty conveyor belt at its Medupi power station which failed last night. Eskom has managed to avoid load shedding for […]

The party has reached an agreement with the company on the way forward after the online advert, which denigrated black women’s hair. EFF representatives, led by party leader Julius Malema, met with a delegation from Unilever on 10 September 2020 following demonstrations over a racist ad for TRESemme hair products that appeared on the Clicks […]

The Supreme Court of Appeal on Wednesday dismissed his appeal against a two-year prison sentence for assaulting a fellow council member with a glass jug. FILE: Andile Lungisa. Picture: Supplied CAPE TOWN – The African National Congress (ANC) in the Eastern Cape said Andile Lungisa has not yet tendered his resignation as a Nelson Mandela […]