Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane – who says President Jacob Zuma’s legal bills have cost South African taxpayers about R30 million already – has given prosecuting boss Shaun Abrahams a 10-day deadline. “I will be writing to the National Director of Public Prosecutions‚ Advocate Shaun Abrahams‚ insisting that Jacob Zuma[…]
While the Supreme Court of Appeal’s decision to dismiss the “spy tapes” appeal is disappointing, it means that the NPA can now make a “legitimate” decision on whether or not to prosecute President Zuma, the Presidency says. “The Supreme Court of Appeal ruled that the then Acting National Director of[…]
Three helicopters and 150 firefighters have been deployed to tackle the blazing fire near the 12 Apostles Hotel in Camps Bay on Friday. Fire manager for Table Mountain National Parks (TMNP) Philip Prins said the ground crew would tackle the left and right flanks of the fire, while the helicopters[…]
The arrest of a group of people suspected of being involved the shooting of 11 people in the Marikana settlement in Philippi, which was highly publicised by Police Minister Fikile Mbalula, has turned out to be a dud. Ten people, eight of whom were pictured lying handcuffed on the road[…]
Pretoria High Court Judge Billy Mothle has ruled that activist Ahmed Timol did not commit suicide but was brutally tortured and pushed from the 10th floor of the notorious John Vorster Square police building in October 1971. An inquest held in 1972 found that he had committed suicide by jumping[…]
KwaZulu-Natal has been declared a disaster area by Premier Willies Mchunu after a “mega-storm” caused devastation in parts of the province on Tuesday. As many as eleven people are confirmed to have died and many more are missing with search and rescue operations continuing on Thursday. More than 133 schools[…]
Former finance minister Pravin Gordhan has called on Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa to sack President Jacob Zuma in January. “The Ramaphosa team must take over in December‚ and in January they must tell Mr Zuma to go and live in Nkandla‚” Gordhan said on Thursday. It is the first time[…]
Army deployment in gang hot spots around Cape Town is a long overdue necessity to try and crack down on “genocide” at the hands of gangsters, say residents. However, some have cautioned that soldiers may not be welcome in certain areas where residents have become fed up with police officers[…]
The number of people who have died following heavy storms and flooding in KwaZulu-Natal on Tuesday has reached eight and could rise, provincial government departments said during a joint briefing. “We can confirm that eight people were killed as a result of the floods yesterday. There are those that are[…]
The Independent Electoral Commission has launched a massive online campaign to confirm and collect addresses of 26-million voters for a credible voters’ roll in time for the 2019 national elections. This after the bruising Constitutional Court judgment in June last year that the IEC had failed to collect and maintain[…]
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