The cousin of anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Timol wept as he recalled how he could not shed a tear when he saw Timol’s wounded lifeless body because it would put him at risk of arrest by the security branch police. With a lump in his throat, Farouk Dindar was forced to[…]
Around 70 sub-Saharan African migrants crossed the razor-wire-topped fence separating northern Morocco from the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on Tuesday, leaving 14 people hospitalised, the Red Cross said. Local police said 200 people rushed the border in a bid to reach Europe. Around 60 managed to enter the territory and[…]
The African National Congress (ANC) in the Western Cape has lost its Constitutional Court bid to challenge the City of Cape Town’s change of its logo. The Constitutional Court dismissed the application with costs. In 2014, the ANC in the Democratic Alliance (DA)-led City of Cape Town approached the courts[…]
Magistrate Jongilizwe Dumehleli will on Tuesday visit and inspect the location where two men are accused of forcing Victor Mlotshwa into a coffin and threatening to pour petrol on him. Theo Jackson and Willem Oosthuizen face charges of kidnapping, assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm, attempted murder and[…]
African National Congress (ANC) heavyweight Jeff Radebe has officially joined the race to become party president. Radebe accepted the nomination by branches in Pretoria on Monday night, during a Nelson Mandela Memorial Lecture in Nellmapius. Others who have thrown their hat in the ring to succeed President Jacob Zuma include[…]
The second sitting of the inquest looking into anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Timol’s death at John Vorster Square in 1971 will resume on Monday. The inquest into Timol’s death while he was in the custody of security branch police is set to continue in the High Court in Pretoria. Timol’s death[…]
The trial of 19 men accused of killing several non-striking miners in Marikana in 2012, will resume in the North West High Court sitting in Rustenburg on Monday. The men are also charged with killing two policemen and two security guards. One of them, Anele Zonke, is already serving a[…]
A gun smuggling investigation said to be the biggest in South Africa, which has been hampered by murders, an information leak and tensions among some of the Western Cape’s top police officers, has been handed over to the Hawks and is back on track. Investigators are now said to be[…]
Apartheid-era police illegally held anti-apartheid activists Ahmed Timol and Salim Essop at John Vorster Square in order to torture them, the High Court in Pretoria heard on Thursday. “They were held, in my view, illegally in the offices on the 10th floor. One can only come to the conclusion that[…]
A 12-year-old boy was shot dead in Kuku Town in Kensington, Cape Town on Wednesday, the Kensington Community Police Forum (CPF) said on Thursday. CPF chairperson Cheslyn Steenberg said in a statement the boy’s body was found on Thursday morning by fellow residents. He had not yet been identified. Western[…]
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