# Die Oos-Kaapse regering het begin om slagoffers van oorstromings in Mthatha in tydelike wooneenhede by die Maydene plaas te hervestig. Die oorstromings in Junie het die lewens van meer as 100 mense geëis en duisende is dakloos gelaat. Die woordvoerder van die provinsiale regering, Khuselwa Rantjie, sê 25 families is hervestig en meer sal […]
# Die GOOD-party sê drie maande is verby sedert Amerika mediese befondsing aan die land gestaak het, maar die regering het nog geen teenmaatreëls aangekondig nie. Twaalf fasiliteite in Suid-Afrika is ná die besnoeiings gesluit. Dit sluit klinieke vir MIV en vigs-pasiënte in, asook antiretrovirale fasiliteite. GOOD se nasionale jeugvoorsitter, Kaden Arguile, sê die werklikheid […]
# Parliament’s portfolio committee on Police says Statistics South Africa’s Governance, Public Safety and Justice Survey 2024/2025, highlights the worrying and inherent trust deficit between police and the broader community. According to the survey, housebreaking remains the most prevalent household crime in the country. About 132-thousand individuals experienced sexual offences over the past five years, […]
# Australian police are continuing a manhunt for a heavily armed man, who shot three police officers, two of whom are dead, in Porepunkah, Victoria, on Tuesday. The suspect has been identified as 56-year-old Dezi Freeman. Ten police officers were shot at after travelling to Freeman’s property to execute a warrant for alleged sexual offences. […]
# ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba says there is no scientific evidence that the container, which plunged into a collapsed mine shaft with three Lily Mine workers inside, cannot be retrieved. Yvonne Mnisi, Pretty Nkambule, and Solomon Nyerende were trapped in a container that plunged into a sinkhole at the Lily Mine in Barberton, Mpumalanga, in […]
# Tennis: World number one Jannik Sinner began his bid for back-to-back US Open titles with a 6-1, 6-1, 6-2 victory against Czech Vit Kopriva. The Italian will face Australian Alexei Popyrin next, after he defeated Emil Ruusuvuori of Finland in straight sets. Kazakhstan’s Alexander Bublik knocked out 2014 champion Croatia’s Marin Cilic. In the women’s […]
# US president Donald Trump says his administration will seek the death penalty in murder cases in Washington, DC. Most murders in Washington are prosecuted under local law, although prosecutors can seek the death penalty for crimes that fall under federal law. Trump reinstated the federal death penalty through an executive order on the first […]
# The EFF says Statistics South Africa’s latest Governance, Public Safety and Justice survey confirms that citizens remain under the siege of crime, while the government offers little relief. The survey indicates that an estimated 1.5-million incidents of housebreaking occurred during the 2024/2025 financial year. A total of 811-thousand consumer fraud incidents were recorded, affecting […]
# The DA says Statistics South Africa’s Governance, Public Safety and Justice survey 2024/2025 shows that citizens are under increasing siege from violent crime. According to the survey, theft of personal property is the most common crime affecting South African individuals, but around 70-percent of victims choose not to report the crime. Only 36.1-percent of South […]
