The long saga of trials, prison and parole has ended for disgraced former police chief Jackie Selebi, who died after a long illness on Friday morning. Selebi would have turned 65 on March 7. African National Congress spokesman Zizi Kodwa confirmed his death to Sapa in an sms, without giving[…]
Capetonians can start getting into shape for the annual 10km Big Walk, the largest community walk, to take place on Sunday 1 March 2015 at the Green Point Track in Cape Town. The fundraising event will now be called the Sunfoil 10km Big Walk, after a new title sponsor came[…]
Police Minister Nkosinathi Nhleko’s decision to suspend Hawks boss Anwa Dramat was invalid, the High Court in Pretoria ruled on Friday. “The order which I make is the following: it is declared that the decision of the minister of police to suspend Lt-Gen Anwa Dramat, the national head of the[…]
New evidence has come to light in an investigation into a string of murder and rape cases in the Kensington area of Cape Town, Western Cape police said on Friday. Lt-Col Andre Traut believed the evidence would strengthen a related criminal case against a 30-year-old man who appeared in the[…]
Two Cape Town boys have died after being trapped in a car that caught alight in Macassar, the Western Cape health department said on Friday. The three-year-old boys were critically injured and were taken to hospital with third degree burns to 80 percent of their bodies around noon on Thursday.[…]
For the past five years, Metro Police’s management have been outsourcing training from leading countries in crime intelligence to better equip local officials with the skills needed to combat drugs and gangsterism on the Cape Flats. Now, the United States’ investment into the local Gang and Drug task teams has[…]
Yemeni authorities re-opened the country’s main port in the southern city of Aden on Thursday, in a move that could ease political tensions. It came hours after embattled President Abd Rabu Mansour Hadi struck a deal with powerful Houthi rebels. “The decision to re-open Aden’s port and airport was made[…]
Germany’s anti-Islam Pegida movement was in disarray Thursday after its public face, Lutz Bachmann, resigned over a selfie in which he posed in an Adolf Hitler moustache and hairstyle. Pegida, which denies that it opposes Islam or refugees per se, has staged weekly rallies since October against alleged “Islamization.” On[…]
Muslims should take a more modern view of their religion and think about the factors that lead to terrorism, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi said Thursday in Davos. “Islam is a tolerant religion, but this was not always clear to the world during the past 20 or 30 years,” al-Sisi said[…]
Parliament is being used to condone corruption, the EFF said on Thursday. “We warn the Speaker and the presidency that Parliament is not a rubber stamp for their corrupt and immoral practices,” the Economic Freedom Fighters said in a statement. “Corruption is institutionalised from the top and Parliament is used[…]
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