# Die parlementêre portefeuljekomitee oor Korrektiewe Dienste het kommer uitgespreek oor bewerings by die Kgosi Mampuru-tronk in Pretoria. Gevangenes beweer hulle moet 240-rand betaal vir toegang tot ʼn stapelbed. Dié wat nie kan betaal nie, moet op die sementvloer slaap in selle wat oorvol en vuil is. Die komitee sê hy is ook bekommerd oor […]
# Western Cape police have arrested a 16-year-old Malmesbury teenager linked to an international child sexual abuse network. This followed a joint intelligence operation involving the US’ Federal Bureau of Investigation, SAPS’ National Serial and Electronic Crime Investigations team, the US embassy, and the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children. Police spokesperson Amanda van […]
# Parliament’s portfolio committee on Correctional Services has expressed concern over allegations at the Kgosi Mampuru Correctional Centre in Pretoria. Inmates alleged they are being forced to pay 240-rand for access to a bunk bed, with those unable to pay allegedly left sleeping on concrete floors in overcrowded and unsanitary cells. The committee says it […]
# Die Gautengse LUR vir Onderwys, Lebogang Maile, is bekommerd oor die uitwerking van voortslepende bende-geweld op leerders, onderwysers en die groter skoolgemeenskap van Westbury. Vier mense is die afgelope naweek doodgeskiet en een gewond. Dit sluit ʼn leerder van die Sekondêre Skool RW Fick in. Woordvoerder Onwabile Lubhelwana sê hulle gaan leerders wat hul […]
# Die Wes-Kaapse polisiekommissaris, Sizakhele Dyantyi, sê hy sal geen verdraagsaamheid toon teenoor beamptes wat omkoopgeld aanvaar of hul mag misbruik nie. ʼn Polisiebeampte wat probeer het om smokkelware by aanhoudingselle by die Mitchell’s Plain-polisiekantoor in te smokkel, is Sondag gearresteer. Die polisiewoordvoerder, Wesley Twigg, sê die beampte was aan die verkeerde kant van die […]
# Gauteng MEC for Education, Lebogang Maile, has expressed concern about the impact of ongoing gang-related gun violence in Westbury on learners, educators and the broader school community. Four people were shot dead, and one was injured over the weekend. One of those shot is a learner from R.W. Fick Secondary School. The department’s spokesperson, […]
# Die Hooggeregshof in Makhanda het die Valke in die Oos-Kaap en die Nasionale Vervolgingsgesag ʼn verbeurdverklaringsbevel van meer as 2,3-miljoen-rand toegestaan. Dit hou verband met ʼn kontantrooftog in Julie 2024 op die pad tussen Kei-weg, Maclean Town en Stutterheim. Die Valke-woordvoerder, Ndiphiwe Mhlakuvana, sê vyf verdagtes is tydens die voorval doodgeskiet en vyf ander […]
# Lede van die Voedsel- en Geallieerde Werkersvakbond, Fawu, in die suikervervaardigings- en -raffineringsbedryf het hul staking hervat ná ʼn dooiepunt in salaris-onderhandelings. Honderde werkers, hoofsaaklik in KwaZulu-Natal en ander suikerriet-streke, het hul poste by meulens en verwante bedrywighede verlaat. Die vakbonde FAWU, AMCU en die United Association of South Africa eis onder meer ʼn […]
# Western Cape Police Commissioner Sizakhele Dyantyi says he is taking a zero-tolerance stance against officers who take bribes or abuse their power. A police officer who attempted to smuggle contraband into the holding cells at Mitchell’s Plain SAPS was arrested on Sunday. Police spokesperson Wesley Twigg says the officer found himself on the wrong […]
