# Electricity and Energy deputy minister Samantha Graham-Maré has urged public and private entities to help recruit 500 unemployed graduates for training as Energy Performance Certificate practitioners. Since its 2020 launch, seven-thousand-411 buildings have registered and three-thousand-986 certificates were issued. Gauteng leads with one-thousand-740, followed by the Western Cape with one-thousand-593. Graham-Maré says the EPC […]
# Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital’s Emergency Department is undergoing major renovations until July 2026. Gauteng Health Department spokesperson, Motalatale Modiba says during this period, emergency services will temporarily operate from the Paediatric Out-Patients Department. Space will be limited, with only one caregiver per child and one assistant per elderly patient permitted. He calls […]
# The Democratic Republic of Congo’s military prosecutor is seeking the death penalty for former president Joseph Kabila. He is being tried in absentia on charges of war crimes, treason, and backing the M23 rebels. Allegations include murder, torture, rape, and plotting against president Félix Tshisekedi’s government. Kabila, living abroad since 2023, denies the charges. […]
# Statistics South Africa director Boitumelo Mooketsi says consumer fraud is the second most prevalent crime, affecting 566-thousand individuals across 811-thousand incidents, with 35-percent reported to police. Meanwhile, assault impacted an estimated 363-thousand individuals, 54-percent of whom reported it. Nearly half of female victims cited a spouse or intimate partner as the perpetrator:
# Statistics South Africa’s Governance, Public Safety and Justice Survey indicates that housebreaking remains the most prevalent crime in the country. Director Boitumelo Mooketsi reports 1.5-million incidents affected 1.1-million households in 2024-25, with 43-percent reported to police. She revealed that home robbery was the second most common, impacting 213-thousand households, often involving firearms:
# Statistician General Risenga Maluleke has revealed a 55.3-percent surge in sexual offences. Households that experienced housebreaking decreased by one-percent, and murders dropped by 11.9-percent. Presenting the Victims of Crime Report in Pretoria, Maluleke said the survey includes unreported crimes often missing from police data. About 73-thousand households reported sexual offences in the past five-years, […]
# The bail application of businessman Vusimuzi ‘Cat’ Matlala has been postponed to the 2nd of September at the Alexandra Magistrate’s Court in Johannesburg. The National Prosecuting Authority’s Phindi Mjonondwane told Newzroom Afrika the postponement was requested to finalise the centralisation of seven dockets across different jurisdictions. She also confirmed that the case against Matlala, […]
# The Constitutional Court has dismissed the Lungu family’s application for a direct appeal against a full bench judgment affirming the Zambian government’s right to repatriate former President Edgar Lungu for a state funeral. The court found that the family had not made a sufficient case for a direct route, meaning the established legal process […]
# Businessman and philanthropist Collen Mashawana has filed an urgent application in the Gauteng High Court to stop the Daily Maverick from publishing further reports linking him to alleged corruption at the Independent Development Trust. The case names journalist Pieter-Louis Myburgh as a respondent. The case follows revelations in Malaka’s Mansion, which detailed payments by […]
