# The National Prosecuting Authority has welcomed the life imprisonment sentence imposed by the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on a 64-year-old father from Mamelodi, for the repeated rape of his daughter. The abuse began when the victim was nine-years-old in 2010, and continued until she was 19-years-old in 2020, occurring during weekends and school holidays when […]
# The Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department has seized illicit drugs worth an estimated street value of 279-thousand-500-rand in a major bust in Hillbrow. Acting on a tip-off, the JMPD’s Tactical Response Unit raided a known drug den and confiscated crack rock and nyaope. JMPD’s spokesperson, Xolani Fihla, says the intelligence-led operation yielded a considerable haul […]
# The Evander Regional Court in Mpumalanga has fined Uptown Superstore 600-thousand-rand for dealing with counterfeit cigarettes. In September last year, four-thousand-710 packets of illicit cigarettes valued at around 107-thousand-700-rand were seized from the business. Three accused, Riaz Moolla, Fatima Moolla and company director Suliman Ismail Moolla, were arrested; however, the court has now withdrawn […]
# The Public Servants Association says that with inflation currently within the South African Reserve Bank’s target range and economic growth remaining sluggish, a rate cut is justified and necessary. Some economists expect the Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee to cut the repo rate by 25 basis points. PSA says a reduction in interest rates […]
# Economists are expecting the South African Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee to cut the repo rate by 25 basis points or keep it steady. This is amid domestic and international economic uncertainties. Inflation increased by only 0.2-percent in June to three-percent from 2.8-percent in May and April. Aluma Capital chief economist, Frederick Mitchell, says […]
