Police Minister Bheki Cele is expected to attend the funeral of the 17-year-old Gift of the Givers volunteer who was killed in gang crossfire in Hanover Park, Cape Town on Friday. Ameerodien Noordien and three other bystanders were shot at multiple times while standing outside a tuck shop. Gift of[…]
Four people have died while 13 others have been injured in a minibus taxi crash on the N3 in Spruitview, according to Ekurhuleni emergency medical services spokesperson William Ntladi. “Police responded to a motor vehicle crash on the N3 highway opposite Spruitview. Upon arrival we found that a minibus had[…]
Two fires flared up near fire exits in Durban’s Addington Hospital on Thursday which may have been acts of arson, the KwaZulu-Natal department of health said on Friday. “Both fires appear to have happened in a similar fashion, which raises a high suspicion of classifying them as related acts of[…]
Business, labour and government at the summit have agreed to work together on a number of initiatives to create jobs. A co-ordinating and monitoring mechanism is to be established within the Labour Department to follow-up on implementation of the 24-point Framework agreement that was signed at the Jobs Summit in Midrand on[…]
Protests flared up in Ennerdale, Johannesburg on Friday morning, in the wake of talks to broker a truce in Westbury. “They are burning tyres,” Johannesburg Metro Police Department (JMPD)’s Senior Superintendent Wayne Minnaar said on Friday. “They are in solidarity with Westbury,” said Minnaar of initial reports received from the[…]
“We as the Western Cape Shutdown Movement call for greater co-operation between all spheres of government, policing agencies and metro policing forces, together with civil society, religious organisations and organised labour.” This was the impassioned plea of United Public Safety Front founder John Cloete and a group of about 300[…]
Child advocacy organisation Save the Children is calling on restaurants to review their child safeguarding policies, in the wake of the recent “Dros Rape” case, that has shocked the country. Last week, a seven-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a 20-year-old man in a bathroom of the Dros restaurant in[…]
The Chinese government’s top diplomat, Wang Yi, said on Friday there was “no cause for panic” over friction between Beijing and Washington, but warned that China would not be blackmailed or yield to pressure over trade. At a U.N. Security Council meeting on Wednesday, U.S. President Donald Trump escalated tensions[…]
Nearly 400 people have been killed after a powerful earthquake triggered a tsunami that hit Indonesia‘s central Sulawesi island. The national disaster agency on Saturday put the official death toll so far at 384, all of them in the tsunami-struck city of Palu, but warned the toll was likely to rise.[…]
Eskom has sent out a statement in which the flailing national power supplier calls itself “an organisation that has been the cornerstone” of the SA economy and prides itself in “95 years of powering the nation”. The company says it aims to ensure that universal electricity access is reached in[…]
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