# The Gauteng Department of Health says medicines save lives only when used correctly. Spokesperson Steve Mabona says the department urges the public to take treatment as prescribed, never share medication, store it correctly and return expired medicines to clinics or pharmacies. He says adherence is critical for HIV, TB, hypertension, diabetes and other chronic […]
# Gauteng police have launched an investigation after a 23-year-old woman was shot and killed on Mapungubwe Street in Tembisa this morning. She was reportedly on her way to work when she was killed during an alleged robbery. Her belongings were taken during the incident. Police spokesperson Brenda Muridili says the deceased has been identified:
# The Alliance of Citizens for Change has condemned the deadly mass shootings in Gauteng and the Western Cape over the weekend. Eighteen people were shot dead when eight gunmen opened fire at patrons at a tavern in Wedela on Gauteng’s West Rand. Ten people were killed in Lwandle, Cape Town, yesterday morning. The alliance’s […]
# Agricultural organisation TLU SA welcomes Agriculture minister Willie Aucamp’s announcement that qualifying local and international entities may manufacture foot-and-mouth disease vaccine at scale, through conditional licensing agreements with the Agricultural Research Council. General Manager Bennie van Zyl says the ARC vaccine is well suited to South African strains and may provide immunity for up […]
# A Limpopo businessman faces further serious charges after appearing in the Polokwane Magistrate’s Court today. Tsebe Phillimon Moloto, owner of the Limpopo Anti-Drug Centre, was already out on fifty-thousand-rand bail for malicious damage to property. The state has added arson, trespassing, and five counts of attempted murder. It is alleged Moloto poured flammable liquid […]
# A professor in Criminology at the University of Pretoria, Christiaan Bezuidenhout, says South Africa has 187-thousand-681 police personnel, but only about 25-thousand operational officers may be available at any time. The total includes 155-thousand-231 sworn officers and 32-thousand-413 civilians who don’t do frontline policing. Speaking to 702, he says after suspensions, leave and absenteeism, […]
# Five people were killed and eleven injured in a three-vehicle crash at Old Pretoria Main Road and Maxwell Drive in Midrand, Gauteng, last night. Johannesburg Metro Police spokesperson Xolani Fihla says the driver of a taxi travelling northbound allegedly failed to stop at a red light and hit two vehicles travelling eastbound. The taxi […]
# Activists and Citizens Forum says charges against suspended SAPS Deputy National Commissioner Shadrack Sibiya including grooming and rape are extremely serious because he is a senior officer. The forum’s Dennis Bloem says the courts must show no mercy to rape accused. He called it a blow to the fight against gender-based-violence. He urged investigators […]
# Rise Mzansi condemns the killing of 11 people, including a pregnant woman, and injury of three people in KwaMakhutha, KwaZulu-Natal. The party’s Mabinda Seaba says extreme violence has become too frequent and demands decisive action, accountability and fresh leadership. Seaba calls for the removal of illegal firearms, disruption of criminal networks through swift intelligence […]
