The search continues for a nine-year-old girl who was last seen almost a month ago. A team of forensic experts are heading out to Delft today to do a sweep of the home of little Linathi Titshala who has been missing since Friday, 14 December. Titshala left her grandmother’s home[…]
Two suspects have been arrested in connection with the murder of a police officer in Gugulethu. The constable was off-duty when he was shot and killed during an alleged robbery at a shop in the Barcelona informal settlement on Sunday night. Police spokesperson Colonel Andre Traut said the officer was[…]
A Cape Town bus driver made an unexpected stop at a local hospital on Monday after a passenger was hit by a stray bullet while they were travelling through Valhalla Park. Golden Arrow Bus Service general manager Derick Meyer said in a statement that the bus had been travelling from[…]
The Private Security Industry Regulatory Authority (PSiRA) announced on Monday that it had decided to institute a full-scale investigation into the role played by a private security company in removing people from a beach in Cape Town last month. PSiRA said following the incident – which took place at Clifton’s[…]
Some “no-fee” schools are insisting parents pay once-off fees – turning away Grade R pupils whose parents can’t afford to pay, GroundUp reports. South African schools are divided into five categories, known as quintiles. The quintiles range from the poorest to the least poor, with quintile 1 being the poorest[…]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his US counterpart, Donald Trump, have discussed the situation in northern Syria over the phone amid rising tensions over the fate of Kurdish fighters in the war-torn country. The conversation on Monday came a day after Trump threatened on Twitter that he would “devastate”[…]
Millions of people have taken to the waters at the confluence of the sacred Ganges and Yamuna rivers at the Kumbh Mela festival – humanity’s largest gathering. At least 15m people are expected on the first day alone. Officials project about 120m visitors over 49 days. Hindus believe bathing at[…]
Palestinian activist groups have slammed a US civil rights institute’s apology for how it handled a recent decision to revoke an award from Angela Davis, a move the US civil rights leader has previously said was tied to her pro-Palestine activism. In its apology on Monday, the Birmingham Civil Rights[…]
A newly appointed Israeli minister on Sunday dismissed the possibility of establishing a Palestinian state in the West Bank and called for the occupied territory to be annexed. “Settlements are the new Zionism of the 21st century,” Migration and Integration Minister Yoav Galant said. During an election campaign stop in[…]
The National Energy Regulator of SA (NERSA) began a series of nationwide public hearings on what South Africans will be paying for electricity on Monday. Eskom is requesting an additional 15% tariff increase for the next three financial years, amounting to a 45% price hike for consumers. NERSA is mandated[…]
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