# The DA is calling for urgent measures to tackle rising cross-border crime along the Lesotho-Free State border. DA’s Roy Jankielsohn says attacks, including a brutal slaughter of 18 cattle near Wepener, amount to a low-intensity war. Roy urges improved policing, technology use, and cross-border hot pursuit agreements. He warns that rural crime threatens food […]
# Former president Nelson Mandela’s bodyguard and former anti-gang unit head, André Lincoln, has died aged 63. Lincoln served nearly 40-years in the police and led key operations in the Cape Flats. He also headed the Presidential Investigation Task Unit in 1996. His career faced scrutiny after failing to act on a warning before detective […]
# South Africa will host the inaugural Global SME Ministerial Meeting in July. Small Business Development minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams says the summit aims to build global partnerships supporting small business amid economic recovery and trade disruptions. Held under the theme ‘Navigating new business frontiers’, the minister says the delegated will map a global Small and […]
# Ten teens from Lamontville Swimming Academy in KwaZulu-Natal are making waves as they gear up for the 2025 Oceans 8 Charity Swim. Sponsored by the Balwin Foundation, these six boys and four girls are rewriting their community’s story through sport. Training hard and aiming high, they’ll compete at the two-day Durban’s Vetch’s Beach event […]
# The South African Police Service is warning the public about a scam involving fake letters and calls pretending to be from the police. Circulating via WhatsApp, these messages use real officers’ names and logos to demand payments for false criminal cases. The police stresses it does not communicate through WhatsApp or video calls. Police […]
# The Gauteng Legislature’s Community Safety Committee is warning the public to be cautious when meeting strangers via dating apps. This follows kidnappings and attacks in Maboneng, revealed during a surprise oversight visit to Jeppe Police Station in Johannesburg. Victims, including LGBTQIA+ individuals, are lured and then robbed or assaulted. The committee’s chairperson Bandile Masuku […]
# Standard Bank and the GIBS Entrepreneurship Development Academy have launched applications for the 2025 Youth Forward Programme. The initiative comes as South Africa gears up for Youth Month. Standard Bank’s Naledzani Mosomane says the programme targets 50 black youth-owned businesses, offering tools for sustainable growth. She emphasised that with youth unemployment at 46.1-percent, the […]
# Social Development minister Sisisi Tolashe has welcomed the life sentences handed to Kelly Smith, Jacquen Appollis, and Steveno van Rhyn for the trafficking and kidnapping of six-year-old Joslin Smith. The trio will also be added to the Child Protection Register as directed by the Western Cape High Court. The department’s spokesperson, Bathembu Futshane says […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa has paid tribute to theologian and anti-apartheid activist Tshenuwani Simon Farisani, who passed on at the age of 76. A Lutheran minister and former member of Parliament, Farisani co-founded the Black Evangelic Youth Organisation with Ramaphosa in the 1970s. Presidency spokesperson Vincent Magwenya says he will be remembered for his fearless […]
