# The Gauteng government has welcomed a decline in several major crime categories, including murder, rape and carjacking in the fourth quarter of the 2025/2026 financial year. Contact crimes in the province have gone down by 5.9-percent, while murders and attempted murders are down by 15-percent and 3.2-percent, respectively. Rape decreased by 9.9-percent and sexual […]
# Acting Police minister Firoz Cachalia says illegal immigration is unacceptable and strong measures are required to strengthen border control and to enforce our immigration laws. This is amid anti-foreigner protests that have been taking place across the country in the past few months. Cachalia says violent protest action, targeting foreign nationals, limits foreign investment […]
# The City of Johannesburg’s Emergency Management Services say at least four people have died in a shack fire at the Kathrada Park informal settlement, Claremont, in the early hours of this morning. The deceased are aged between 20 and 50-years-old. Several residents were treated for smoke inhalation. EMS spokesperson, Robert Mulaudzi, says the cause […]
# The South African Police Service says it has intensified its nationwide Shanela Operations crackdown against organised criminal networks involved in illicit trade, drug trafficking, illegal immigration and other serious and violent crimes. Intelligence-led operations conducted last week across the country resulted in the arrest of 17-thousand-587 suspects, including two-thousand-549 wanted individuals linked to serious […]
# South Africa is ready to host the 13th biennial Africa Aerospace and Defence trade exhibition and airshow at Air Force Base Waterkloof in Pretoria in September. Exhibition director Nakedi Phasha says they are looking to host no fewer than 300 exhibitors from more than 40 countries. They have invited more than 200 official delegations, […]
# The Public Servants Association says reports suggesting that the Department of Correctional Services cannot account for some parolees under its supervision warrant urgent clarification. According to reports, the country’s correctional system has lost track of nearly 28-thousand absconded parolees, including convicted murderers, rapists and armed robbers. PSA’s Claude Naicker says history has, on several […]
# Union federation Cosatu has welcomed Cabinet’s decision to officially approve the complete write-off of all outstanding and unpaid historical e-toll debt in Gauteng. This follows the government’s decision to discontinue the electronic tolling system on the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project, which took effect on 12 April 2024. Cosatu’s Amos Monyela says the scrapping of e-tolls […]
# Road running: University of Pretoria master’s student in Agricultural Plant Pathology, Qiniso Sithole, is preparing to run in the Comrades Marathon on Sunday to support the institution’s Degrees Delivered campaign. The initiative is aimed at helping graduates clear historical student debt and access the degree certificates they have already earned. Sithole says not being […]
# Western Cape Mobility MEC, Isaac Sileku, says the newly launched GO GEORGE Route 11, between Thembalethu and the Garden Route Mall, will improve public transport access. This is the third GO GEORGE route serving Thembalethu. Sileku says the service reduces the need for multiple bus transfers, and improves overall access to opportunities such as […]
