One of the suspects arrested for the murder of an elderly couple in their Ottery home said he wants to confess “and tell the whole story.” On Monday, the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court heard that Rugaya and Riedwaan Addinall were allegedly fed rat poison and strangled on Sunday 6 January 2018.[…]
The Dominican School for the Deaf describes the recognition of sign language as a subject, as a major victory for the hearing-impaired community. According to the 2001 StatsSA, approximately 20 percent of all disabled people in South Africa suffer from hearing loss, leaving the minority to adapt to issues surrounding[…]
Police have launched a search for two suspects who allegedly hijacked a 42-year-old driver for an e-hailing app in Grassy Park at the weekend. The driver had allegedly picked up a passenger from Plumstead, as well as the passenger’s friend in Zeekoevlei on Saturday night. The driver was then directed[…]
A 24-year-old Eastern Cape man appeared in the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court on Monday after allegedly raping his mother in her Nyanga home. The man has denied the accusation and has counter claimed that his mother is falsely accusing him after he threatened to expose her drinking and “bad deeds.” State[…]
The search continues for a nine-year-old girl who was last seen almost a month ago. A team of forensic experts are heading out to Delft today to do a sweep of the home of little Linathi Titshala who has been missing since Friday, 14 December. Titshala left her grandmother’s home[…]
Two suspects have been arrested in connection with the murder of a police officer in Gugulethu. The constable was off-duty when he was shot and killed during an alleged robbery at a shop in the Barcelona informal settlement on Sunday night. Police spokesperson Colonel Andre Traut said the officer was[…]
A Cape Town bus driver made an unexpected stop at a local hospital on Monday after a passenger was hit by a stray bullet while they were travelling through Valhalla Park. Golden Arrow Bus Service general manager Derick Meyer said in a statement that the bus had been travelling from[…]
The Private Security Industry Regulatory Authority (PSiRA) announced on Monday that it had decided to institute a full-scale investigation into the role played by a private security company in removing people from a beach in Cape Town last month. PSiRA said following the incident – which took place at Clifton’s[…]
Some “no-fee” schools are insisting parents pay once-off fees – turning away Grade R pupils whose parents can’t afford to pay, GroundUp reports. South African schools are divided into five categories, known as quintiles. The quintiles range from the poorest to the least poor, with quintile 1 being the poorest[…]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his US counterpart, Donald Trump, have discussed the situation in northern Syria over the phone amid rising tensions over the fate of Kurdish fighters in the war-torn country. The conversation on Monday came a day after Trump threatened on Twitter that he would “devastate”[…]
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