SourceDenis Goldberg was amongst those arrested on 11 July 1963. Thursday marks the 56th anniversary of the arrest of the high command of Umkhonto Weziswe at Lillieslief Farm in Rivonia, North of Johannesburg. Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki, Andrew Mlangeni, Raymond Mhlaba, Ahmed Kathrada, Elias Motsoaledi and Dennis Goldberg were arrested[…]
Major General Andre Lincoln is a contender to take over as Western Cape police chief. He currently leads the unit tackling gangsterism, the province’s most crippling problem, but Lincoln’s complicated history could see him ruled out for the top job. A policeman in the running to become the Western Cape’s[…]
The commission says it will also hear Transnet-related testimony from former electrical engineer Francis Callard. The commission of inquiry into state capture, chaired by Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, will on Wednesday hear testimony from the acting manager: governance, risk and compliance from Transnet, Helen Janet Walsh. Walsh’s testimony will[…]
National Director of Public Prosecutions Shamila Batohi wants to repair the “massive credibility challenges” at the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA). Batohi presented a frank assessment of the NPA to the portfolio committee on justice and correctional services on Tuesday afternoon. She said it was publicly known that the NPA had[…]
South Africa’s two largest cellular network providers Vodacom and MTN, and newcomer Rain, plan to accommodate eSIM-cards by 2020. An eSIM-card is built into a smartphone and needs to be activated by a mobile network to be operational. Like a traditional SIM-card, it allows users access to mobile networks to[…]
Police Minister Bheki Cele on Monday promised disgruntled residents of Philippi East in Cape Town that proper interventions will be made to address policing in the area which has hit news headlines following the murders of 13 people at the weekend. Bheki Cele reveals “24-hour plan”… sort of Cele told the crowd[…]
It’s been confirmed that three construction workers lost their lives on Monday evening after one of their trenches collapsed in on them during some routine maintenance. The work, which was being carried out in the Cape Town suburb of Table View, has been suspended on Tuesday. 3 killed after trench collapsed[…]
This story is part of a three-part “Gang Wars” series, which this week focuses on Hanover Park. Since the start of the year, 45 people have been murdered in Hanover Park in the Western Cape and 12 people lost their lives to violence in June, the bloodiest month in the[…]
A jarring juxtaposing of inequality can be found in dozens of places in South Africa, says Johnny Miller, the photographer whose work recently featured in the cover of Time magazine. Miller has been documenting such cases of rich and poor living side by side through aerial photographs for his project[…]
The hands holding the guns behind the bullets and bloodshed in Hanover Park are not tattooed, weathered or even fully developed. “They belong to children, some not even teenagers yet,” Ebrahim Abrahams says with a shake of his head. “Those hands should be holding pens while doing homework. Instead, they[…]
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