# Independent non-profit think tank Africa Asia Dialogues warns against the lack of a sense of urgency from South African leaders in addressing mass shootings. Twenty-eight people were killed in Gauteng and the Western Cape over the weekend – 18 in a tavern shooting in Carletonville, and ten in Lwandle. Senior research fellow at the […]
# ‘n Maatskaplike werker vir die staat, Phumzile Sithole, sê die veroordeelde pedofiel Iain Wares moet regstreekse tronkstraf opgelê word. Sy het getuig tydens voorvonnisverrigtinge in die Wynbergse Landdroshof in Kaapstad. Sithole sê die 87-jarige Wares, ‘n voormalige onderwyser in Skotland en Suid-Afrika, toon geen berou nie, ontken sy misdade en gee ander die skuld […]
# Die Suider-Afrikaanse Alliansie vir Alkoholbeleid sê die onlangse massaskietvoorvalle het leemtes blootgelê in die wyse waarop drankwinkels en drankondernemings gelisensieer en gemonitor word, veral in arm, digbevolkte gebiede. Agtien mense is die naweek in ‘n taverne in Wedela aan die Gautengse Wes-rand doodgeskiet en tien in Lwandle, Kaapstad. Woordvoerder Nomcebo Dlamini het aan Newzroom […]
# State social worker Phumzile Sithole calls for direct imprisonment for convicted paedophile Iain Wares. She was testifying in pre-sentencing proceedings at the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court in Cape Town. Sithole says 87-year-old Wares, a former teacher in Scotland and South Africa, is unrepentant, denies his crimes and blames others for his conviction. Sithole stresses the […]
# Hewige donderstorms word vandag in dele van Suid-Afrika verwag. Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Noordwes en die Noord-Kaap kan geraak word. Die Suid-Afrikaanse Weerdiens se voorspeller, Lehlohonolo Thobela, waarsku die storms kan plaaslike oorstromings, skade aan huise en gevaarlike toestande op paaie veroorsaak. Hy vra inwoners om verspoelde gebiede te vermy, skuiling te soek tydens weerlig […]
# Severe thunderstorms are expected to hit several parts of South Africa today. Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North West and the Northern Cape will be affected. SA Weather Service forecaster Lehlohonolo Thobela says the storms could cause localised flooding, damage to homes and dangerous driving conditions. He urges residents to avoid flooded roads, seek shelter during […]
# The Southern African Alcohol Policy Alliance says the recent mass shootings have exposed gaps in how liquor outlets are licensed, located and monitored, especially in poor, densely populated areas. Eighteen people were killed at a tavern in Wedela on the Gauteng West Rand, and ten at an entertainment venue in Lwandle, Cape Town, over the […]
# Dele van die Johannesburgse middestad en Marshalltown is steeds sonder elektrisiteit na Saterdag se groot brand by die Johannesburg-Sentraal-substasie. Die jongste kragonderbreking volg slegs ‘n dag nadat kragtoevoer herstel is ná ʼn onderbreking van twee weke. City Power se woordvoerder, Isaac Mangena, sê tegniese spanne het bewyse gevind van moontlike kabeldiefstal en opsetlike beskadiging […]
# Kaapstadse owerhede het die afgelope naweek meer as drie-duisend oproepe om hulp ontvang, terwyl die aanmelding van ongelukke 58-persent hoër was. Die metro se noodsentrum het drie-duisend-en-20 oproepe ontvang waarvan 235 vir aanranding was en 138 vir ongelukke. Die burgemeesterskomiteelid vir Veiligheid en Sekerheid, JP Smith, sê wetstoepassingsbeamptes het ook beslag gelê op dwelms […]
