# Iran has halted peace talks with the US due to the widening Israeli assault on Lebanon. This comes amid a broadening wave of Israeli attacks across southern Lebanon after prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the military would deepen its offensive against the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah. According to Iranian state media, Tehran will move […]
# Soccer: Bafana Bafana departed for their World Cup training base in Pachuca, Mexico, yesterday without assistant coach Helkman Mkhalele. He is still waiting for his visas to be processed by the US Embassy. The squad was originally set to depart on Sunday, but was held back by a delay in obtaining visas in what […]
# Acting National Commissioner, Puleng Dimpane, has deployed a National Forensic Task Team, together with Crime Intelligence experts, to investigate the explosions that occurred at Woolworths stores in Gauteng and the Free State last week. The first explosion took place at Woolworths Menlyn Park in Pretoria on Thursday, and the second less than 24-hours later […]
# Die speaker van die Johannesburgse raad, Margaret Arnolds, is bekommerd oor die voortgesette verspreiding van grafiese beeldmateriaal van gewelddadige voorvalle op sosiale media. Foto’s van die naweek se moord op drie mense in Eldoradopark is op platforms gedeel. Arnolds se woordvoerder, Vusi Gumbi, sê voorvalle van geweldsmisdaad berokken steeds emosionele skade en ondermyn die […]
# Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has ordered strikes on the Dahiyeh suburb of Beirut. This is a stronghold of Iranian-backed militants Hezbollah in the Lebanese capital. Netanyahu says this is in light of repeated violations of the ceasefire in Lebanon by the terrorist organisation, and attacks on Israeli cities and citizens. Israel has largely […]
# Multidissiplinêre misdaadvoorkomingsoperasies in Atteridgeville en Laudium in Tshwane het oor die naweek gelei tot die inhegtenisneming van 340 verdagtes in misdade soos moord, poging tot moord, gewapende roof en aanranding. Polisiewoordvoerder, Johan van Dyk, sê 49 ongedokumenteerde mense is ook aangehou en daarna aan immigrasie-owerhede oorhandig:
# The US military says it conducted “self-defence strikes” on Iranian radar and drone sites in the city of Goruk and the island of Qeshm over the weekend. The US Central Command says the attack was in response to aggressive Iranian actions. In retaliation, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targeted an American air base allegedly […]
# Die minister van Binnelandse Sake, Leon Schreiber, sê die departement versnel die bekendstelling van slim-ID-kaarte deur banke en digitale stelsels. Volgens die Suid-Afrikaanse identiteitsbeheer-platform VerifyNow het nabootsingsbedrog met groen ID-boeke jaarliks toegeneem met 400-persent, omdat bedrieërs kunsmatige intelligensie gebruik om die ou identifikasiestelsel uit te buit. Schreiber sê die groen ID-boek is uiters kwesbaar […]
# Willem Els van die Instituut vir Sekerheidstudies sê verlede week se twee bomontploffings by Woolworths-winkels in Gauteng en die Vrystaat beklemtoon breër kommer oor georganiseerde misdaad en afpersing in Suid-Afrika. Die eerste ontploffing het Donderdag by Woolworths se tak in Menlynpark in Pretoria plaasgevind. Die tweede was minder as 24-uur later by die Preller […]
