Jiba and Mrwebi and another NPA official Jackie Lephinka was implicated in Agrizzi’s testimony before the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture on Thursday. The legal team of suspended NPA Senior Advocate Nomgcobo Jiba will continue to cross-examine witness, Advocate Jan Ferreira, in the Mokgoro Enquiry in Pretoria on Friday morning. The Enquiry[…]
The United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions will travel to Turkey next week to lead an “independent international inquiry” into the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Reuters reported. Agnes Callamard told the news agency on Thursday that she plans to launch the probe during a[…]
Following the fatal train collision in Mountainview, Pretoria that left four people dead and 620 injured earlier this year, the Railway Safety Regulator (RSR) is considering suspending the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa’s (Prasa) safety permit again, GroundUp reports. If the permit is suspended, Metrorail trains across the country will stop[…]
Egypt has become “more dangerous” than ever for government critics, according to Amnesty International, which warned that Egyptian activists face an unprecedented attack on freedom of expression under President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s government. In a statement on Thursday, on the eve of the eight-year anniversary of the start of Egypt’s[…]
A 16-year-old Israeli settler was arrested on suspicion of throwing a rock that killed a Palestinian mother last October was charged with manslaughter as an act of terror, on Thursday, after his DNA was found on the thrown rock. The 16-year-old from the Mateh Binyamin Regional Council, near the northern[…]
Two Sudanese men have been killed as the country saw its most widespread protests on Thursday during more than a month of continued unrest. The Sudanese Doctors’ Committee said medical student Mahjoub al-Taj Majhoub died “after being subjected to beating and torture” while in police custody. University student Abd al-Azeem[…]
In a historic first for the country, Al-Waagah Islamic Institute for the Deaf (AIIFTD) along with several partners will facilitate 58 underprivileged deaf elderly to go on Umrah for the first-time next month. In a press briefing on Wednesday, stakeholders described the huge responsibility of the project, noting that 117[…]
The search for 25-year-old Angelique Ripepi has concluded after she was found in the Southern Suburbs of Cape Town and taken to hospital. Police spokesperson FC Van Wyk said Ripepi has been reunited with her family. “This office can confirm that the missing person Angelique Ripepi was found last night[…]
What was once a colourful state-of-the-art play park is now an eye-sore for residents of Seawinds in Lavender Hill. The R7.6 million Seawinds Smart Park has been the target of incessant destruction and vandalism by criminals over the past year. The world-class park opened in September 2017 and included a[…]
Former Bosasa COO Angelo Agrizzi – an eyewitness, and participant to large-scale corruption at state entities – has delivered damning confirmatory testimony to a decade-old Special Investigating Unit (SIU) report into tender rigging at the prisons department. During the sixth day of his marathon testimony before the state capture commission[…]
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