# Move SA is demanding immediate government intervention in Sharpeville to combat the surge in gender-based violence and resolve years of systemic municipal service delivery failures. For the Sharpeville police precinct, the most recent annual data, covering April 2025 to March 2026, shows 530 crimes were recorded as violent contact crimes, the structural category under […]
# The City of Cape Town is carrying out urgent road repairs along the southbound lanes of Jakes Gerwel Drive, between Bofors Circle and the N2 highway, near Bonteheuwel. The repairs follow illegal tunnelling and digging by people suspected of living beneath the Bonteheuwel Bridge, just before the railway line. Mayoral committee member for Mobility, […]
# The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment says it has received no reports indicating a recurrence of the widespread sardine mortality event observed between late July and early September in the Western Cape. However, it is investigating a small number of juvenile sardines, measuring less than five centimetres, washed up sparsely along approximately […]
# Tshwane police arrested 312 suspects for various criminal offences in Ga-Rankuwa during Operation Shanela over the weekend. The suspects were apprehended for crimes ranging from murder, attempted murder, assault, rape and gender-based violence-related offences. Police spokesperson Johan van Dyk says that, as part of efforts to address immigration-related offences, 28 undocumented foreign nationals were […]
# Polisie in die Oos-Kaap het ʼn ondersoek begin na die skietdood in Dutywa van ʼn raadslid van die Mbhashe Plaaslike Munisipaliteit, Ernest Fiphaza. Die 63-jarige Fiphaza, ʼn kandidaat van die Suid-Afrikaanse Kommunistiese Party, is buite sy huis doodgeskiet. Die polisiewoordvoerder, Nobuntu Gantana, sê twee onbekende verdagtes het by die slagoffer se huis opgedaag en […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa sê die regering werk landwyd aan waterprobleme, daarom het hy die Nasionale Waterkrisis-kommissie saamgestel. Hy het gister tydens die ANC se deur-tot-deur-veldtog in Soweto gepraat. Die komitee moet seker maak daar is ʼn gekoördineerde benadering tot die institusionele en finansiële hervormings wat nodig is vir watersekerheid. Ramaphosa sê die onmiddellike probleem […]
# National Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola has commended the multidisciplinary law enforcement team which intercepted and seized approximately 250 kilograms of cocaine at OR Tambo International Airport. Officials intercepted five luggage bags, which arrived in South Africa from Brazil yesterday, containing 216 blocks of cocaine valued at over 200-million-rand. National Police spokesperson Athlenda Mathe says […]
# EFF-leier Julius Malema sê die vierde November bied elke stem ʼn geleentheid om verandering te eis en plaaslike regerings aanspreeklik te hou. Hy het gister in aanloop tot volgende week se plaaslikeregeringsverkiesing sy veldtog in Thembisa, Gauteng, gevoer. Die party het burgemeesterskandidate in Johannesburg, Tshwane en Ekurhuleni. Malema belowe om onder ʼn EFF-geleide regering […]
# Die Johannesburgse Metropolisie-departement raai motoriste aan om vanoggend die N12 in die Lenasia-omgewing te vermy aangesien die snelweg weens ʼn diensleweringsbetoging in albei rigtings gesluit is. Die betoging het by Nana’s Farm in Lenasia opgevlam en tot wydverspreide padsluitings gelei. Dit raak pendelaars wat tussen Lenasia, Eldoradopark, Soweto en Johannesburg-Suid reis. Die departement se […]
