More than R8m worth of copper cables belonging to the eThekwini municipality‚ Transnet‚ Telkom and Prasa has been seized from a scrap dealer’s yard in KwaMakhutha‚ south of Durban. Durban metro police said in a statement the copper cables…
The City of Tshwane has raised the alarm about the high rate of teenage pregnancies after its public health facilities recorded nearly 10‚000 deliveries to young moms in two years. “This figure represents a concerning high incidence of…
Five thousand rand. That’s the sum a warrant officer‚ subsequently dismissed from the force‚ demanded from a suspect charged with reckless and negligent driving in exchange for their police case docket to be stolen. Frederick George de…
Deputy chief justice Raymond Zondo has taken on the role of acting chief justice. This was announced by the office of the chief justice on Friday. The switch is due to the appointment of Sisi Khampepe as acting chief justice coming to an…
The R10m “scooter ambulance” tender awarded by the health department in the Eastern Cape for the transport of patients has been declared invalid and unlawful by the Special Tribunal. The department purchased the motorcycles in 2020 after…
The Pretoria magistrate’s court has sentenced a couple to two life terms and 22 years’ imprisonment each for various sexual offences‚ abuse of their own two children and drug possession. The 39-year-old father and 33-year-old mother from…
The Constitutional Court has ordered former president Jacob Zuma to abide by a summons to appear before the state capture commission and give evidence before it. The decision of the highest court means that should Zuma not appear on…
The Constitutional Court will on Thursday consider the constitutionality of corporal punishment in the home. SA’s top court prohibited corporal punishment in detention settings in 1995 and in schools in 2000; this case deals with a…
