A report from the Weskoppies Psychiatric Hospital is on Friday expected to give clarity on whether the 20-year-old man who is alleged to have raped a child at a Dros restaurant last year is mentally ill. At a November court hearing, his Legal Aid attorney, Riaan du Plessis, told the[…]
President Cyril Ramaphosa is set to deliver South Africa’s annual State of the Nation address tomorrow night in Cape Town. And Africa Check will fact-check the claims he makes, live. Last year we found Ramaphosa’s claims to be mostly correct (he got two wrong). But what about the promises he[…]
President Cyril Ramaphosa will deliver his 2019 State of the Nation Address (Sona) from parliament at 7pm on Thursday. This will be Ramaphosa’s second address since he was elected president of the ANC. Here are five key issues that are likely to dominate this year’s SONA: ANC renewal After months[…]
Counter-cases of assault have been laid after a San Souci teacher was filmed slapping a pupil following an altercation. In a video that went viral on social media, a teacher of the Newlands school is seen reprimanding a pupil for not having the correct book and for having her cellphone[…]
Legal experts have lambasted the Hawks for the arrests of five-people over allegations of corruption, money laundering and fraud related to tender irregularities between Bosasa and the Department of Correctional Services. Experts warn that the arrest of former Bosasa COO Angelo Agrizzi’s could scare off more witnesses intending to give[…]
South Africa’s Private Security Industry Regulatory Authority (PSiRA) said in a statement on Wednesday that it would investigate the alleged involvement of a security officer in the death of a Durban University of Technology (DUT) student. Mlungisi Madonsela, 20, was shot at DUT’s Steve Biko campus on Tuesday afternoon after[…]
A teacher who allegedly sexually assaulted pupils at Valhalla Primary School in Pretoria is to be served with a letter of suspension from the school. The 55-year-old man was not at school on Wednesday. It is alleged that the teacher, who joined the school in 2017, inappropriately touched 23 learners.[…]
The Gauteng education department has appointed a team of structural engineers to conduct an analysis of Hoërskool Driehoek’s premises in Vanderbijlpark before the school reopens. The school was closed with immediate effect on Friday after a concrete slab fell on 26 pupils, killing four of them and injuring several. “The[…]
Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan’s defamation and crimen injuria charges against the EFF are an attempt to silence the party, EFF president Julius Malema and his deputy Floyd Shivambu, said. “This application is nothing other than a thinly veiled attempt by Mr Gordhan to silence me and the deputy president[…]
The University of Witwatersrand has warned that it could collapse if it were to meet the accommodation and historical debt demands made by protesting students. “The protesting students have made two main demands: they would like all returning students to be given accommodation or funding for accommodation, and they would[…]
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