# The DA in Gauteng says it is concerning that the number of active reservists has decreased from six-thousand in 2010 to 892 as of January 1st this year. The party recently conducted oversight inspections of various police stations across Gauteng, uncovering significant understaffing concerns, especially at front desks and in patrols. The DA’s, Michael Sun, […]
# Die Universiteit van Pretoria het ‘n eredoktorsgraad in Opvoedkunde toegeken aan Suid-Afrika se mees gevierde en veelbekroonde redaksionele spotprenttekenaar, Jonathan Shapiro, beter bekend as Zapiro. Die universiteit sê sy spotprente hou die afgelope vier dekades ‘n boeiende, insiggewende spieël op van gebeure in Suid-Afrika. Shapiro sê dis vir hom uiters aangenaam om te sien […]
# Civic movement Soil of Africa has condemned a corporal punishment incident at Soshanguve South Secondary School. A video, which has gone viral, shows two people using sjamboks to beat pupils standing in line at the school for apparently arriving late. According to reports, community members overpowered scholar patrollers and unlawfully entered the school premises, […]
# KwaZulu-Natal premier Thamsanqa Ntuli says only collaboration between business and the state in the port system can yield efficient and responsive port operations. He was part of the official launch of the Facility Operator Agreement at the Port of Richards Bay on Tuesday. Ntuli says this milestone aligns with the objectives of the province’s […]
# The University of Pretoria has conferred an honorary doctorate in Education on South Africa’s most celebrated and multi-award-winning editorial cartoonist, Jonathan Shapiro, better known as Zapiro. The university says over the past four decades, Shapiro’s cartoons have held up a compelling, insightful mirror to events taking place in South Africa. Shapiro says it’s pleasing for […]
# Twee Kaapstadse wetstoepassingsbeamptes is op aanklagte van ontvoering en afpersing gearresteer. Dit volg na ‘n interne ondersoek deur die Veiligheids- en Sekuriteitsondersoekeenheid. Die beamptes wat lede van die Metaaldiefstaleenheid was het na bewering twee mans in Khayelitsha ontvoer en ‘n losprys vir hulle vrylating geëis. Die burgemeesterskomiteelid vir Veiligheid en Sekuriteit, JP Smith, sê […]
# Die Pietermaritzburg-landdroshof het die Onafhanklike Verkiesingskommissie-gebiedsbestuurder, Nkosinathi Mnikathi, wat deur MK-partylede daarvan beskuldig is dat sy stemmateriaal onwettig sonder polisiebegeleiding tydens verlede jaar se verkiesings vervoer het, vrygespreek. Landdros Edmund Szudrawski het beslis dat Mnikathi binne die OVK-protokol-reëls opgetree het. Die OVK-uitvoerende hoof, Sy Mamabolo, het die saak ‘n onnodige klad op die demokrasie […]
# The Pietermaritzburg Magistrate’s Court has acquitted IEC area manager Nkosinathi Mnikathi, accused by MK Party members of illegally transporting voting materials without police escort during last year’s elections. Magistrate Edmund Szudrawski ruled Mnikathi acted within IEC protocols. IEC CEO Sy Mamabolo called the case an unnecessary blemish on democracy. Meanwhile, MKP provincial deputy coordinator, […]
# Die Vryheidsfront Plus in Gauteng het die polisie se vinnige optrede geloof ná ʼn skietvoorval gister in Meyerton se sakegebied. Volgens die polisie het werkers van twee sekerheidsmaatskappye op mekaar geskiet en een persoon is gewond. Tien AK-47-aanvalsgewere en ʼn pistool is op en naby die taxistaanplek gevind en drie verdagtes is gearresteer. Jaco […]
