A man who stole military equipment, including assault rifles and hand grenades, from the Simon’s Town Naval Base has been sentenced to six years behind bars, the Hawks said on Thursday. Duncan Gouvias, 22, was convicted and sentenced last week after pleading guilty in the Wynberg Regional Court to charges[…]
Parliament’s legal advisers are expected to give an opinion on whether the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) inquiry draft report can be sent to the affected parties without recommendations. Debate flared up on Thursday between the African National Congress (ANC) and the Democratic Alliance (DA) in the Ad hoc Committee,[…]
Capetonians can brace themselves for even tougher water restrictions from next month. The City of Cape Town’s Council today approved the implementation of Level 3b restrictions water restrictions from 1 February 2017. Among others, the use of potable water for non-essential use will be further restricted. The Democratic Alliance and[…]
Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande is on Thursday set to brief media on the outcomes of talks he held about the state of readiness for the 2017 academic year. The talks took place in the last week with various groups. Earlier in the month, he indicated the department was ready[…]
The DA says it will ask the Independent Electoral Commission to look at allegations that the ANC set up a covert election campaign to disempower opposition parties ahead of last year’s municipal vote. PR expert Sihle Bolani has claimed in a court affidavit that an ANC campaign team known as[…]
‘African Union Commission Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has warned that a Donald Trump’s administration threatened global progress on climate change and women’s rights. Africa should counter this by establishing the planned continental free trade area this year, she said. In her last speech at the opening of the AU executive council[…]
Gambia’s President Adama Barrow, who was inaugurated in neighboring Senegal as mediators engineered an exit deal for longstanding ruler Yahya Jammeh, is to return to Gambia on Thursday, a senior aide said. Barrow has asked a regional force of several thousand soldiers to stay and help him restore democratic governance[…]
The Dutch Minister of Security and Justice announced that the Netherlands might conduct further investigation at the site of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crash in eastern Ukraine after a Dutch journalist recovered some victims’ remains from the site. In January, Dutch journalist Michael Spekkers returned from a two-week stay[…]
Mexico’s leader Enrique Pena Nieto has condemned US President Donald Trump’s move to build a border wall, and insisted that his country has no intention of paying for it. “I regret and condemn the decision of the United States to continue construction of a wall that, for years, has divided[…]
The Hanover Park Civic Association is calling on community members to participate in a public meeting calling for the eviction of gangster’s residing in council rental units. This follows the shooting and consequent wounding of five old Ashlin Telmarks in Hanover Park’s Algoa Court on Tuesday evening. Telmarks was caught[…]
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