Lobby group AfriForum announced on Thursday that it intended to privately prosecute Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema on charges of fraud and corruption. The announcement was made in Centurion on Thursday morning by AfriForum’s private prosecution head, the so-called “Pit Bull” himself, advocate Gerrie Nel. The group’s legal[…]
Thousands of commuters around the country, who use buses as their primary mode of transport, will once again have to find alternate modes of transport on Thursday as the nationwide bus strike enters its second day. About 15 bus companies affiliated to transport union South African Transport & Allied Workers[…]
The Economic Freedom Fighters party has alerted the police ministry and stepped up its own security after being alerted to a death threat originating in the North West‚ it says. Spokesperson Tebogo Mokwele said individuals in the province “have approached drug dealers and assassins in different provinces” to assassinate EFF[…]
Statistics compiled by the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) were presented in the sentencing proceedings in the case against former Western Cape police commissioner Arno Lamoer and three others at the Western Cape High Court on Tuesday. IPID’s head of investigations Matthew Sesoko was asked to present the statistics at[…]
The Hawks have confirmed that their offices in Bellville, Cape Town, were broken into. The break-in is believed to have happened at the weekend and was discovered when staff reported for duty on Monday, Hawks spokesperson Captain Philani Nkwalase said on Tuesday evening. “There are some items missing that are[…]
There is no sign that the national bus strike planned for Wednesday will be called off, the bus drivers’ bargaining council said on Tuesday. “It is definitely going ahead tomorrow,” said Gary Wilson, secretary general of the South African Road Passenger Bargaining Council (SARPBC). The council, which represents at least[…]
The Democratic Alliance’s Cape Town caucus has resolved to write to its federal executive to ask for permission to table a new internal motion of no confidence in mayor Patricia de Lille. Deputy caucus leader JP Smith confirmed to News24 that the caucus met on Monday, and resolved to initiate[…]
The City of Cape Town says it’s concerned that water consumption over the past week has spiked by 5%. Deputy Mayor Ian Neilson says dam levels have also declined by 0.5% due to high temperatures and evaporation. The average water levels of reservoirs supplying the Metropole stand at 21%. Neilson[…]
President Cyril Ramaphosa says he’s optimistic that the ambitious plan that he unveiled on Monday will improve the country’s sluggish economy. The plan involves a global initiative to attract $100-billion in investment over the next five years. Total fixed investment in the economy stood at 24% of GDP in 2008,[…]
The Joe Slovo community is standing behind a 38-year-old man who flung his child off the roof of his home. The man appeared in the New Brighton magistrate’s court on a case of child abuse. The one-year-old was caught by a member of the metro police. The toddler was not[…]
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