The Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) filed responding papers yesterday against acting police commissioner Lieutenant General Khomotso Phahlane revealing shocking new information on alleged “dubious transactions” in the purchasing of his house and vehicles. Last month, Phahlane took IPID head Robert McBride, forensic investigator Paul O’Sullivan, his assistant attorney Sarah[…]
The Nelson Mandela Foundation has described the painting by Ayanda Mabulu currently in the public domain, as distasteful. The painting shows President Jacob Zuma and late former president Nelson Mandela engaged in a sexual act. Spokesperson Luzuko Koti says the Foundation has noted the public outrage it has caused and[…]
The University of Cape Town (UCT) will this week begin the third of a series of workshops unpacking the issue of transformation within the law faculty. Coming on the back of country-wide protests against the so-called ‘colonisation’ of the education system, the discussion is an inclusive reflection on the current[…]
The principal of Bishop Lavis Skills School was critically injured after he was repeatedly stabbed in the chest, head, neck and shoulder, on the school premises. According to a statement by the Western Cape Education Department, the incident is reportedly related to a pending disciplinary hearing involving a learner who[…]
In a letter written on Thursday – the day Police Minister Fikile Mbalula ordered Phahlane and Ipid boss Robert McBride to kiss and make up – Phahlane’s lawyers told Ipid he believed he was not being investigated by an “independent investigatory body”. The two have been at war for months[…]
Do not allow revolutionary sounding slogans to hoodwink the public, Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa said. Speaking at a Black Business Council event in Sandton, Johannesburg on Wednesday evening, Ramaphosa said some were attempting to appropriate the democratic movement, along with its history, symbols and policies in pursuit of factional interests.[…]
Two Venezuelan students have died after being shot during what the opposition dubbed the “mother of all marches” against President Nicolas Maduro. Clashes broke out on Wednesday in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, where hundreds of thousands of people held rival protests amid rising tensions over the country’s political crisis. Security[…]
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday ordered an investigation into corruption allegations against a senior civil servant related to the use of funds intended for handling a humanitarian crisis in the northeast of the country. The director general of the National Intelligence Agency was also ordered to be suspended after[…]
By Melanie Sauer Cape Town residents are outraged, as a Plettenberg man, who pleaded guilty to nearly 19- thousand charges of possession of child pornography, had his trial postponed on Tuesday. Experts are not surprised, however, saying that the judicial system is simply one of many hurdles in reducing instances[…]
Despite being employed to save lives, Emergency Medical Services (EMS) personnel in recent years fallen victim to criminals and gangs on the Cape Flats. As a result, residents’ access to the vital service has been compromised, with EMS unable to enter volatile areas without the assistance of law enforcement. In[…]
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