# Die KwaZulu-Natalse polisie ondersoek ‘n moordsaak nadat ‘n onbekende vrou se liggaam op ‘n vullisterrein in Copeville, Pietermaritzburg, gevind is. Haar hande was agter haar rug vasgebind en die polisie sê sy het vermoedelik brandwonde opgedoen. Vullisherwinnaars het op die liggaam afgekom. Die polisie vra inwoners om te help om die moordenaars op te […]
# Die DA in Gauteng sê bome en takke wat die Hartbeesspruit in Tshwane versper, skep ‘n veiligheidsgevaar vir eiendomme op sy oewers. Die DA-lid, Leanne de Jager, sê die opgehoopte puin versper die natuurlike vloei van die water, wat veroorsaak dat die spruit van sy normale vloei afwyk en die oewers wegkalf. Sy sê […]
# Die Adjunkpresident en voorsitter van die Justisie-Misdaadvoorkomings- en Veiligheidsgroepering, Paul Mashatile, veroordeel die onlangse moorde op vroue in en om Kemptonpark in Gauteng. Mashatile het by president Cyril Ramaphosa aangesluit in solidariteit met die vroue en inwoners van Kemptonpark en omliggende gebiede. Hy sê geslagsgeweld hoort nie in gemeenskappe nie, en mans moet aan […]
# The South African Council of Churches is calling for urgent action to protect women following the discovery of eight women’s bodies on Gauteng’s East Rand over two months. General-secretary, Reverend Mzwandile Molo, told the SABC the deaths in Kempton Park, Olifantsfontein and Springs have sparked fear and outrage. He calls for swift investigations, prosecutions, […]
# Police have launched a manhunt after former SABC sports presenter and businessman Owen Ndlovu was allegedly abducted outside a church in Katlehong on the Gauteng East Rand. Police say Ndlovu was picking up his wife when three armed men confronted the couple. His wife was pushed aside before the suspects forced Ndlovu into his […]
# Police are investigating a case of murder after the body of an unidentified woman was discovered at a waste site in Copesville, Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal. The woman was found with her hands tied behind her back, while police say she had apparent burn injuries. The body was discovered by people collecting waste. The woman’s identity […]
# The Johannesburg Metro Police Department says the bodies of eight females found in Kempton Park and the surrounding Ekurhuleni in Gauteng areas confirm that gender-based violence is a national crisis that crosses municipal boundaries. Spokesperson Xolani Fihla says the department is on heightened alert, particularly along border areas, transit hubs and isolated spaces, while […]
# Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis launched his fourth pledge as part of the DA’s local government election campaign, to keep essential services reliable and affordable. He launched the pledge in Rocklands, Mitchell’s Plain, today. Hill-Lewis says in the last term the city quadrupled sewer pipe replacement to 100-kilometres a year and doubled fresh-water pipe […]
# Deputy President and chairperson of the Justice, Crime Prevention and Security Cluster, Paul Mashatile, condemns the recent killings of women in and around Kempton Park in Gauteng. Mashatile joined president Cyril Ramaphosa in expressing solidarity with women and residents of Kempton Park and surrounding areas affected by the killings. He says gender-based violence has […]
