# The South African Police Service in the Western Cape today honoured Captain Zamani Mzayiya who was killed in the line of duty. The 50-year-old was shot dead during a shootout with a suspect in Knysna last week. He was part of a team deployed after a spate of fatal shootings in the area. A […]
# The High Court in Pretoria sentenced serial killer Rassie Nkuna and dismissed police official Jacob Chego to four life terms each for the murders of six-month pregnant Sabeiliwe Mogashoa and her husband Lucky in Pretoria in March 2022. They faced 12 charges, including murder, kidnapping and fraud. The couple was killed for their car […]
# FF Plus in Gauteng says the Ekurhuleni Metro’s failure to ensure accountability for irregular expenditure is unacceptable. During a council meeting on 31 August, recommendations to write off over 140-million-rand in historical irregular expenditure were tabled, with one report noting 53-million-rand is irrecoverable as documents and staff are no longer available. The party’s Karl […]
# Die Spesiale Ondersoekeenheid verwelkom die inhegtenisneming van die sindikaatbaas Joel Govindraju in verband met die ondersoek na meer as twee-miljard-rand wat deur tenderbedrog van die Tembisa-hospitaal in Gauteng geplunder is. Hy staan tereg op verskeie aanklagte in verband met die beweerde verkryging van mediese voorraad en toerusting. Die SOE beweer die Govindraju-sindikaat het sowat […]
# As Tourism Month begins, the City of Cape Town says smarter marketing and connectivity will drive tourism growth. At a Learning Lounge with Meta at City Hall, the Mayoral Committee Member for Economic Growth, James Vos, says marketing must convert interest into bookings. He says the This Is Cape Town campaign reached 55 cities […]
# The DA says Gauteng public schools owe municipalities 117.2-million-rand, threatening electricity and water disconnections. Education MEC Lebogang Maile disclosed this in reply to DA questions in the legislature. The party’s Michael Waters calls on Maile to conduct a province-wide assessment of municipal costs and explain how the debt will be settled without cutting learning […]
# ActionSA is calling for measures to prevent future outages of the SAPS 10111 emergency line in Cape Town. Provincial Commissioner Sizakhele Dyantyi revealed a technical failure since yesterday afternoon with no restoration timeline. ActionSA’s Dereleen James calls it unacceptable amid one-thousand-71 murders in the first quarter in the Western Cape. She urged SAPS to […]
# The City of Johannesburg has appointed Lesiba Arnold Malotana as new head of the Department for Public Safety after a comprehensive recruitment, selection and assessment process. The appointment of the former head of the Gauteng Department of Health is controversial after a lifestyle audit conducted by the Special Investigating Unit classified him as ‘high […]
# The Special Investigating Unit has welcomed the arrest of syndicate kingpin Joel Govindraju in connection with its probe of more than two-billion-rand looted through Tembisa Hospital tenders. He faces multiple charges arising from allegations of the procurement of medical supplies and equipment at the hospital. The SIU says the Govindraju Syndicate siphoned approximately 600-million-rand […]
