# The Department of Correctional Services’ parole monitors say they are under-resourced, understaffed and overwhelmed, having to monitor large numbers of parolees weekly. An AmaBhungane investigation has revealed the department cannot account for almost 28-thousand high-risk parolees who have absconded. Presently, there are 44-thousand-857 active parolees in the country, with only 968 monitors. AmaBhungane says the […]
# At least 16 learners have died and over 70 have been injured when a fire broke out in a dormitory at the Utumishi Girls Academy in Gilgil, Kenya, in the early hours of this morning. The building was housing 220 learners. Police say search and rescue operations are continuing, with the death toll likely […]
# Former US first lady Jill Biden says she thought her husband, Joe, was having a stroke during the infamous 2024 debate against Donald Trump. He repeatedly stumbled over words and phrases as he delivered indirect responses to questions. Many in the Democratic Party called on him to drop out of the presidential election, which […]
# The US Justice Department has reportedly launched a criminal investigation into former magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll. The 82-year-old accused president Donald Trump of sexual assault and won a federal civil lawsuit against him for sexual abuse and defamation. A court found the president liable on both counts and awarded Carroll over 80-million-rand in […]
# Tennis: Three-time champion Novak Djokovic believes the French Open’s heat rules need to be changed. The Serb played local player Valentin Royer in the middle of the afternoon yesterday, as Paris experienced temperatures exceeding 30 degrees Celsius. Djokovic has suggested that Roland Garros could either suspend play during the day, like at the Australian […]
# Die Grensbestuursowerheid het ʼn dwelmbesending ter waarde van 998,2-miljoen-rand by die Beitbrug-grenspos in Musina, Limpopo, onderskep. Drie Malawiese burgers is gearresteer. ʼn Intelligensie-gedrewe operasie wat uit die Nasionale Teiken-sentrum bedryf word, het ʼn vragmotor geïdentifiseer wat deur Zimbabwe na Beitbrug reis. Volgens die Grensbestuursowerheid is die vragmotor onderskep en met die gesofistikeerde vragmotor-skandeerder op […]
# Gauteng se LUR vir Menslike Nedersettings, Tasneem Motara, het huise oorhandig aan begunstigdes in Sokhulumi, Tshwane. Dis deel van pogings om die lewering van behuising te versnel, vertragings op te klaar en mense se waardigheid te herstel deur volhoubare nedersettings. Die departement se woordvoerder, Terry-Ann van Eck, sê die Sokhulumi-projek sal na verwagting 265 […]
# Die Vereniging van Staatsamptenare is bekommerd oor die meer as elf-miljard-rand wat provinsiale Gesondheidsdepartemente aan die Nasionale Gesondheids-laboratoriumdiens skuld. KwaZulu-Natal skuld die meeste, naamlik net meer as 4,8-miljard-rand, gevolg deur Gauteng met 3,2-miljard en die Oos-Kaap met meer as 1,1-miljard. Claude Naicker van die vakbond sê die stygende skuldkrisis belemmer die diens se vermoë […]
# Die ANC in Kaapstad sê hy is bekommerd omdat die metro en speaker van die raad voortgaan om virtuele raadsvergaderings te hou. Die laaste fisiese raadsvergadering was byna ʼn jaar gelede. Judy-Ann Stevens van die ANC sê virtuele vergaderings verswak robuuste debat, beperk aanspreeklikheid en maak volgens haar dit makliker vir die DA-administrasie om opposisie-deelname […]
