# Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu says preliminary investigations suggest the man who stabbed his fellow pilot on a Flydubai plane had undergone Islamist radical indoctrination. The attacker attempted to crash the Israel-bound flight from Dubai on Wednesday. The wounded captain managed to open the cockpit door, allowing passengers and reserve crew to subdue the attacker […]
# Die DA sê die Noord-Kaapse regering moet omgewing- en infrastruktuurprobleme hanteer wat vroue in gevaar stel. Die party noem onlangse gevalle soos die ontdekking van ʼn vrou se liggaam in ʼn vlak graf in Lerato-park, Kimberley, en die bendeverkragting van ʼn 62-jarige pensioenaris in Pampierstad. Lisa Schickerling van die DA sê tussen April en […]
# The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime says political assassinations, if left unchecked, will narrow democratic choice, corrode local government, and allow criminal governance to decide who can hold power. Forty-two people have been murdered in suspected political assassinations in South Africa this year, ahead of the local government elections. Most political killings have […]
# Amnesty International USA says Tennessee’s attempted, but botched, execution of Christa Pike is the latest reminder that the death penalty is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment. Pike, sentenced to death for a 1995 murder, survived two lethal injections on Wednesday evening. She would have been the first woman to be executed in […]
# City Power het sy herstel-spanne en ʼn diensverskaffer aan die Kliptown-gholfbaan onttrek weens kommer oor hul veiligheid. Dit volg nadat inwoners gister betoog en mense geïntimideer het, en verhoed het dat elektrisiteit herstel word. ʼn Kragonderbreking wat vermoedelik deur ʼn foutiewe kabel-afhegting veroorsaak is, het kragvoorsiening aan die Kliptown-gholfbaan en Pimville Sone 9 geraak. […]
# Cricket: The Wanderers in Johannesburg will host the 2027 one-day World Cup final, as it did in 2003, on November 21st. Newlands in Cape Town will host the opening match between India and defending champions Australia on October 7, and the first semifinal, with Centuring hosting the second. Twelve venues will be used for the […]
# Die vroueliga van Abahlali baseMjondolo vra ʼn onafhanklike Vroue-ombud vir wetstoepassing. Dit volg nadat die liggame van elf vroue die afgelope maande in Ekurhuleni, Gauteng, gevind is. Woordvoerder Snenhlanhla Mncanyana sê die ombud moet magte hê om polisiekantore te inspekteer, toegang hê tot rekords, en die reg hê om korrupsie en wangedrag te ondersoek. […]
# Die Wes-Kaapse premier, Alan Winde, sê die provinsie verskerp spesialis-wetstoepassing om dwelmhandel en georganiseerde misdaad te pak. Die Stellenbosch-munisipaliteit se honde-eenheid is gister bekendgestel nadat gebiede soos Kayamandi en Cloetesville ʼn rekord-toename in bendeverwante en georganiseerde misdaad getoon het. Winde sê die provinsiale regering het in die 2025/26-boekjaar deur die provinsiale Departement van Polisie-oorsig en […]
# Die Forum for South Africa eis strenger toesig en vinniger optrede teen polisiebeamptes wat van wangedrag beskuldig word. Die Onafhanklike Polisie-Ondersoekdirektoraat het in 2025/2026 vyf-duisend-259 gevalle van wangedrag aangemeld, insluitend 332 verwant aan geslagsgeweld en vrouemoord. Die leier van Forum4SA, Tebogo Mashilompane, sê daar is 116 bewerings van verkragting teen polisiebeamptes, waarvan 72 terwyl […]
