# ‘n Elektrisiën van Kimberley in die Noord-Kaap, Andrew “Benji” Benjamin, is die wenner van MasterChef South Africa se sesde seisoen en het prysgeld van ‘n miljoen-rand losgeslaan. Die 40-jarige amateursjef het Candice Meth van Durban in ‘n spannende eindronde uitgestof. Benjamin, ‘n hoogspanning-elektrisiën, het kykers en beoordelaars beïndruk met sy kalm benadering en kookvernuf. […]
# The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union welcomes the Labour Court judgment handed down yesterday, dismissing an application for leave to appeal over the transfer of operations at the Mangaung Correctional Centre in Bloemfontein, Free State. The court previously ruled that the transfer to the Department of Correctional Services, effective 1 July, triggered Section […]
# Parliament’s portfolio committee on Mineral and Petroleum Resources says South Africa needs a regulatory framework that protects the environment and the rights of affected communities, while providing investors with sufficient certainty to undertake responsible exploration. The Constitutional Court has blocked Shell and Impact Africa’s offshore exploration activities along the country’s Wild Coast. The committee […]
# Mpumalanga police seized 630 kilograms of dagga worth more than four-million-rand in Tonga near the Eswatini border. Spokesperson Mpho Nonyane-Mpe says officials searched an articulated truck and trailer with Eswatini registration plates and discovered 49 bags of dagga. A suspect was arrested and detained. The truck, reportedly belonging to a logistics company based in […]
# A University of Cape Town study has found South Africa’s stokvels could become an important platform for improving nutrition and food security in low-income communities. Funded by the International Research Development Centre, the study examined how grocery stokvels influence food purchasing and nutrition-related decisions in two low-income Cape Town communities, Dunoon and Khayelitsha. The […]
# ʼn Gewapende man is doodgeskiet op ʼn plaas by De Hoop buite Robertson in die Wes-Kaap na ʼn ure-lange dooiepunt met die polisie. Hulle het op ʼn klagte gereageer en het onder skoot gekom, waarna die taktiese taakspan ontbied is om in te gryp. Woordvoerder Nonkululeko Phokane sê die situasie is aan die Spesiale […]
# Die Wes-Kaapse polisie het ʼn 16-jarige tiener van Malmesbury aangekeer in verband met ʼn internasionale netwerk wat kinders seksueel misbruik. Dit volg op ʼn gesamentlike operasie deur die Amerikaanse Federale Ondersoekburo, die Suid-Afrikaanse Polisiediens se nasionale ondersoekspan vir Elektroniese en Reeksmisdade, die Amerikaanse ambassade en die nasionale sentrum vir vermiste en uitgebuite kinders. Polisiewoordvoerder […]
# Electrician Andrew “Benji” Benjamin from Kimberley in the Northern Cape has been crowned the winner of MasterChef South Africa’s Season 6, taking home one-million-rand. The 40-year-old home cook beat Durban’s Candice Meth in the tense finale. Benjamin, who works as a high-voltage electrician, won viewers and judges over with his calm approach and cooking […]
# A gunman has been killed following a prolonged armed standoff with police on a farm at De Hoop outside Robertson in the Western Cape. Police initially responded to a complaint but came under fire, prompting Tactical Response Team members to intervene. Spokesperson Nonkululeko Phokane says the situation was later escalated to the Special Task […]
