Twenty-eight security guards were arrested at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology for allegedly being unregistered, police said on Thursday. The arrests, made in terms of the Private Security Industry Regulation Act (PSIRA Act), came during a fraught Chancellor’s Week at the institution, which has been marked by protests and[…]
The National Prosecuting Authority has welcomed the sentencing of serial rapist Sikhangele Mki to 15 life terms plus an additional 120 years’ imprisonment. It also requested the community not to take the law into their own hands. Mki was arrested last year after he was linked to the cases of[…]
Police commanders and Hangberg community leaders were locked in a meeting at the Hout Bay station on Thursday afternoon to thrash out a way forward following protests in the area. Loud voices could be heard from the commander’s office, where the closed meeting had been going on for about three[…]
Rubber bullets broke his ribs and smashed his tongue. I wanted to ask Ona Dubula how he’d crossed the Hout Bay valley from Imizamo Yethu and wound up on the frontlines of a fishing rights demonstration near Hangberg. But the fourteen-year-old had gauze stuffed in his mouth after being shot[…]
The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS), Walter Sisulu University and Intellimali will appear before the parliamentary committee on higher education and training on Wednesday to explain how R14.1m was paid out to one of the university’s students. Sibongile Mani was due R1 400 as a recipient of a NSFAS[…]
Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane conspired with the Presidency to have the mandate of the Reserve Bank changed, the bank stated in a new affidavit filed on Monday. SARB spokesperson Jabulani Sikhakhane confirmed that SARB filed the new affidavit on Monday, in which the bank indicates that Mkhwebane had met with[…]
The DA and President Jacob Zuma will battle it out in the High Court in Pretoria on Tuesday morning, on whether Zuma can legally delay establishing a commission of inquiry into state capture. This was pending his legal challenge against recommendations by the former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela. Zuma has[…]
The ANC’s 2015 KwaZulu-Natal elective conference has been declared null and void‚ sparking what could be a leadership crisis in the province. Two minutes was all it took for Judge Jerome Mnguni to deliver a devastating blow to the KZN ANC provincial executive. The ruling‚ made in the Pietermaritzburg High[…]
KwaZulu-Natal ANC Youth League says it will take the campaign of their preferred presidential candidate Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma to all streets corners and the branches of the party. Speaking in Ladysmith during the ANC Youth League’s 73rd anniversary, provincial Chair Kwazi Mshengu says they have confidence in Dlamini-Zuma to deliver[…]
A teenager from Khayelitsha is presumed to have drowned after reports that he went missing in the surf at Monwabisi Beach on the False Bay coast. A spokesperson for the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) Craig Lambinon says the 19 year old was swimming with friends when he apparently disappeared[…]
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