The ANC parliamentary caucus always wanted President Jacob Zuma to #paybackthemoney, its outgoing chief whip Stone Sizani told the Mail & Guardian in an interview published on Friday. “We have been consistent on our position that President Zuma needed to pay a portion of the Nkandla money in line with[…]
A former estate agent and wife of a Democratic Alliance (DA) councillor has been sentenced to an effective eight years imprisonment for theft involving almost R900 000. Forty-three year old Yvette Greyling appeared in the Port Elizabeth Commercial Crimes court on Thursday. She was accompanied by family members and her[…]
The city plans to shut down three of its eight vehicle testing centres, paving the way for possibly selling its Gallows Hill traffic service headuarters – a prime inner city property. Not one vehicle has undergone a roadworthy test at the Green Point traffic department in the past two years,[…]
Oscar Pistorius on Thursday faced a return to jail after losing a final bid to appeal his murder conviction for shooting girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Pistorius’s lawyers had applied for leave to appeal to the Constitutional Court, the highest court in South Africa, arguing that the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA)[…]
The Muslim community of Azaadville in Johannesburg are reeling after the murder of two community workers on Thursday morning. Sixty-five-year-old Haroon Saleh and his 29-year-old son, Yusuf, were both shot by armed robbers in their home in the west of Johannesburg. Haroon died shortly after the attack, while his son[…]
Capetonians are urged not to part with their money, amid reports of a bogus collector again doing the rounds on parts of the Cape Flats. VOC has been alerted of a scam artist claiming to be collecting money for the burial of her husband, her children or an orphaned child in[…]
VOC listeners are fed up with crime and believe ordinary people should do whatever they can to defend themselves against brazen criminals. This was the overwhelming sentiment on air this week, following a fiery debate around the shooting of a teenage criminal near Bonteheuwel. On Monday, a woman found herself[…]
The minister of Home Affairs Malusi Gigaba has urged individuals to collect their uncollected ID documents ahead of the registration weekend for this year’s local government elections. The department has in its possession around 200 000 uncollected smart ID cards at its headquarters, as well as 5 000 uncollected green[…]
Should the 1913 cut off-date for land claims be changed to the 1800s? President Jacob Zuma raised the question as he opened the National House of Traditional Leaders in Cape Town on Thursday. “The very law that we have today to claim is lopsided against the black people. It is[…]
Riot police outnumber the labourers they protect while the orange-coated workmen demolish “the Jungle” in Calais. The police wear transparent, disposable galoshes to protect their black leather boots from the mud that is the migrant camp’s most salient feature. While the migrants slept off the exhaustion of another night’s fruitless[…]
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