The ANC’s headquarters have been evacuated as well as that of The Star newspaper after a bomb scare in the vicinity of the two buildings. A source at the newspaper’s office confirmed that it and Luthuli House nearby had been evacuated at about 11:50. Better late than never, now the[…]
The City of Cape Town is enlisting growing numbers of private security cameras in an effort to broaden its “safety net”. Most of the responses have been from residents’ associations, neighbourhood watches and city improvement districts. The city’s policy, approved last year, targeted private cameras installed on its property, for[…]
A gang held up staff at the Castle Hotel in central Cape Town on Monday morning. The four robbers entered the hotel on Canterbury Street around 06:15, said Western Cape police spokesperson Constable Noloyiso Rwexana. They held up the manager and employees at gunpoint, taking an undisclosed amount of money[…]
The DA is set to file court papers on Monday for direct access to the Constitutional Court relating to the Public Protector’s report on Nkandla. The party’s chair of the Federal Executive, James Selfe, said that the powers of the Public Protector needed to be safeguarded. “Legal certainty about the[…]
South Africans who are worried about the controversial and expensive nuclear deal being shoved down their throats have received support from an unexpected quarter. Fikile Majola, ANC MP and chairperson of Parliament’s portfolio committee on energy, has turned out to be a champion for transparency in the nuclear deal. In[…]
A South African man who escaped with his life after a crane crashed into Mecca’s Grand Mosque has spoken about how his fellow pilgrims died after they were hit by steel sheets just after prayers on Friday afternoon. Reliving the trauma, Ikraam Karodia told City Press that he and five[…]
“No one will dig old monkey bones to back up a theory that I was once a baboon,” former Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi tweeted on Saturday. This led to a heated debate on Homo naledi, a new human ancestor discovered in the Cradle of Humankind. When a follower countered[…]
An investigation is to be launched by the City of Cape Town into fading road and line markings, it said on Sunday. “During the past 18 months or so, we have noticed that some road and line markings across the city fade faster in some areas than in others,” city[…]
A 17-year-old teen who went missing while swimming at Camps Bay beach on Saturday morning is presumed to have drowned. NSRI Bakoven station commander Bruce Davidson in a statement said eyewitnesses reported that the teenager went missing at 10:45. “It appears that a group of 23 teenagers and young adults[…]
There are no reports of any Africans injured or killed by a crane which collapsed onto Mecca’s Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia on Friday killing 107 people, the Muslim Judicial Council said. “According to some of our networks, we have established that at this moment in time there is no[…]
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