A pedestrian has been killed in an accident involving one of State Security Minister David Mahlobo’s official vehicles in Mpumalanga, the department said on Thursday. Spokesperson Brian Dube could not immediately confirm whether Mahlobo was in any of the motorcade vehicles during the accident. “I can confirm that one of[…]
The long-running battle within the council of the University of the Western Cape (UWC) is set to go back to court. And, once again, the unresolved allegations of corruption, especially concerning a R70m security tender, continue to swirl amid claims of political interference, backstabbing and backhanders. On December 18, suspended[…]
AbaThembu King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo will be spending Christmas with his family after his bail conditions were extended until December 30 by the Mthatha High Court on Wednesday afternoon. Dalindyebo’s lawyers apparently went into the judge’s chambers on Wednesday at 15:00 and emerged two hours later with the ruling. The king’s[…]
President Jacob Zuma was tickled on Wednesday when he heard an isicathamiya group from the New Prison Correctional Services in Pietermaritzburg singing a song dedicated to him. The group of prisoners, who were neatly dressed in festive colours, performed at a Christmas party organised for the elderly at the Savannah[…]
The ANC Western Cape says it is vindicated by its position that the DA only put up a smoke screen around the suspension of Dianne Kohler Barnard in order to eventually absolve her. The African National Congress (ANC) in Parliament is threatening to find other ways of punishing Kohler Barnard[…]
Strand beachgoers watched with noses pinched on Wednesday as bulldozers slowly dragged a whale carcass out of the water. Initially one bulldozer was called in to pull the 14m humpback whale off a reef, the city’s environmental corporate governance director, Gregg Oelofse, said. He said two more bulldozers had to[…]
A high-ranking North Korean diplomat accused of abusing his diplomatic immunity and his embassy’s diplomatic bag to smuggle rhino horn out of South Africa has been expelled from the country. News24 has learnt that Park Chol-jun – also identified in some news reports as Pak Chol Chun – quietly left[…]
AbaThembu King Buyelakhaya Dalindyebo is expected to present himself at the Mthatha prison to start serving his 12-year jail sentence on Wednesday, despite his petition to the justice ministry to reopen his case. The ministry said on Wednesday it was considering the petition from his lawyer Yasmin Omar, but that[…]
The Democratic Alliance’s decision to keep Dianne Kohler Barnard in Parliament showed the party’s true colours, the African National Congress said on Tuesday. It said it was disturbed, but not surprised, by the outcome of Kohler Barnard’s appeal against her expulsion. “[It was] a hopeless attempt to dupe the public[…]
For almost 18 months, three members of trade union Solidarity halted the promotion of more than a thousand police officers after questioning the rationale behind them. The members complained that they were being discriminated against and wanted the methodology used to be changed. “On 28 February 2013, Solidarity launched an[…]
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