A senior Hawks detective with a history of clashing with his commanders for refusing to drop investigations against politicians, has been fired over what his sympathisers described as “trumped up” sexual harassment charges. The Directorate for Priority Crime and Investigations…
Wounded people lie in the street on March 21, 1960 in Sharpeville, where security forces massacred 67 protesters. In 1960, police shot 69 black people in the Sharpeville township, south of Johannesburg, during a protest against pass laws, which restricted…
There’s a chance that there are South Africans who are sympathetic to National Assembly Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula’s cries of trial and persecution by the media over the allegations that she took bribes worth millions of rands from a contractor in…
Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa. (Photo by Ihsaan HAFFEJEE / AFP) Eskom has asked the department of forestry, fisheries and the environment to reduce red tape in approving environmental impact assessments to increase electricity generation from renewable energy, said Electricity Minister…
Graphic footage circulated on social media, showing several people assaulting a man with his hands tied in a water-filled steel drum. Thirteen Indonesian soldiers have been detained for their alleged role in the torture of a Papuan man, the military…
Lourentia Lombaard appeared before the Vredenburg magistrate’s court on charges of kidnapping and human trafficking. The fourth accused arrested for the disappearance of six-year-old Joshlin Smith from Saldanha Bay chose not to apply for bail on Monday morning. Lourentia Lombaard…
Dozens of villages nestled on the banks of the country’s famed Sepik River were already battling soaking floods when the quake struck Sunday. At least five people were killed and an estimated 1,000 homes destroyed when a magnitude 6.9 earthquake…
ATM president, Vuyo Zungula. (@ATMovement_SA/Twitter) African Transformation Movement (ATM) leader Vuyo Zungula has vowed that criminals will be treated like dogs, with their human rights not having much weight under a government led by his party. Speaking in Jabulani, Soweto,…
The revelation that Britain’s Catherine, Princess of Wales, has cancer prompted a swift backlash over a torrent of lurid social media speculation around her health, including by those positing she was secretly dead. Kate Middleton, 42, received an outpouring of…
Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula. (Photo by Felix Dlangamandla/Daily Maverick/Gallo Images via Getty Images) Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula is not above the law and the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) will not obey her timetable in its attempts to arrest her on 12 corruption charges…