What started out as a peaceful protest at the Burmese Embassy in Pretoria quickly turned violent after angry protestors tried to break down the gate and enter the compound. One person was also slightly injured when a rock was thrown at him by the crowd consisting mostly foreign nationals. Hundreds[…]
ANC MP Makhosi Khoza on Friday said she will not be attending her ANC KwaZulu-Natal disciplinary hearing set for Sunday following a High Court ruling declaring the party’s provincial leadership invalid. Khoza’s previous disciplinary hearing, which had been scheduled for Sunday, September 10, was postponed after additional threats against her[…]
A 14-year-old boy who was shot in the face with rubber bullets in Hout Bay has been left with a gaping wound in his mouth. “Ona can’t eat. He is struggling,” his mother Pinky Dubula said. “It is going to be difficult for him now that he has a hole[…]
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[…]
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