The Standard Banking Group has suffered a gross loss estimated at R300 million following a sophisticated co-ordinated credit card scam involving 1 000 ATMs and 14 000 convenience stores. The banking group’s media spokesman, Ross Linstrom, said on Monday morning the scam involved the withdrawal of cash using a number[…]
The Democratic Alliance said on Monday the National Prosecuting Authority’s decision to appeal a High Court order that corruption charges against President Jacob Zuma be reinstated was an attempt to shield the president. National Director of Public Prosecutions Shaun Abrahams had earlier told a news conference he would appeal against[…]
The Hawks have assured Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan he is not a suspect in their controversial SA Revenue Service (Sars) “rogue unit” investigation and that he would not be arrested. This is revealed in correspondence between the unit and Gordhan’s lawyers this week following sensational reports of the imminent arrest[…]
The provincial government has re-advertised its intention to sell the site and buildings which formerly accommodated the Tafelberg Remedial High School in Sea Point, in line with a court order granted this month. According to the notice, the province plans to sell the erf to the Phyllis Jowell Jewish Day[…]
Yesterday the ruling party accused Malema of illegally sneaking his “personal bodyguards” into the National Assembly to protect him while he assaulted parliament’s protection services officials. The ANC and the DA were reacting to Tuesday’s fracas in the National Assembly, where members of the EFF’s caucus were physically removed. DA[…]
A paramedic has told how he feared for his life after the ambulance he was driving was targeted by criminals while he and his partner responded to a call. The man, who asked to remain anonymous, told News24 that they were called out to attend to a patient in Nyanga.[…]
The ANC in Parliament has stopped short of fully backing Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan in his battle with the Hawks. ANC chief whip Jackson Mthembu said on Thursday that the ANC caucus supported Gordhan, just like it did other ministers in the cabinet. On Thursday, the SACP became the ANC’s[…]
The ANC does not want to see anyone dying in Parliament, or blood to be spilled, the party said on Thursday. The party has called for more stringent security in Parliament, following a violent scuffle between EFF MPs and Parliamentary Protection Services as the EFF was being removed from the[…]
Activists in informal settlements have launched a petition calling on Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille to urgently tackle people’s living conditions in the City’s informal settlements. “We are ashamed of living in a city where over 20% of the population are deprived of dignity, and would like to add[…]
Two men have been handed life sentences for the 2013 brutal murder of a teenager in Mitchells Plain. Tohier “Peanut” Williams was 18 and captain of the Western Cape Islander Touch Rugby team when he happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Gangsters could not find[…]
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