# RISE Mzansi says South Africa’s prisons are overcrowded, with unsentenced inmates significantly contributing to the crisis. The party’s Mabine Seabe says according to the 2024/25 Department of Correctional Services report, facilities are at 61-percent above capacity, leaving 65-thousand inmates without beds. The Eastern Cape faces the worst overcrowding, with Butterworth Remand Detention Facility at […]
# The DA says Tshwane mayor Nasiphi Moya has been silent as a typhoid outbreak spreads in Hammanskraal. The party demands that test results from the Department of Water and Sanitation be shared publicly or with independent experts. They warn that relying on water tankers is risky and urge infrastructure solutions to prevent another health […]
# The Electoral Commission Western Cape has announced municipal ward by-elections for Ward 17 and Ward 27 in George Local Municipality on 21 January 2026, following councillor resignations. A Voter Registration Weekend will take place on 15 and 16 November 2025, allowing residents to register, check, or update their details. Eligible voters must present a […]
# Die waarnemende minister van Polisie, Firoz Cachalia, het aan die parlementêre ad hoc-komitee gesê die polisiekommissaris van KwaZulu-Natal, Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, se media-inligtingsessie in Julie was onvanpas. Die komitee is in die lewe geroep na Mkhwanazi se bewerings van korrupsie, kriminele infiltrasie en politieke inmenging in die polisie. Cachalia het erken dat hoewel senior amptenare […]
# Acting minister of Police Firoz Cachalia told the Parliament’s ad hoc committee that KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi’s July media briefing was not appropriate. The committee was set up after Mkhwanazi’s claims of corruption, criminal infiltration, and political interference in the police. Cachalia acknowledged that while senior officials should show courage when systems fail, […]
# Die polisie het na ‘n lasbrief vir deursoeking en beslaglegging teen die omstrede sakeman, Brown Mogotsi, op ‘n aantal toestelle beslag gelê. Mogotsi word vir bedrog, korrupsie en regsverydeling ondersoek. Polisie-woordvoerder Athlenda Mathe, sê Mogotsi, wat Sondag ‘n vermeende sluipmoordpoging in Vosloorus oorleef het, het ook die span wat ‘n saak van poging tot […]
# Die 23-jarige man wat in hegtenis geneem is in verband met die massaskietery in Reigerpark, is vrygelaat nadat die saak weens onvoldoende bewyse nie op die hofrol geplaas is nie. Ses mense is dood en drie gewond in die voorval oor die naweek. Polisiewoordvoerder Dimakatso Nevhuhulwi:
# A 23-year-old man arrested in connection with the Reiger Park mass shooting has been released after the case was not placed on the court roll due to insufficient evidence. Six people were killed and three wounded in the incident over the weekend. Police spokesperson Dimakatso Nevhuhulwi:
# The police have executed a search and seizure warrant against controversial businessman Brown Mogotsi. Investigators into fraud, corruption, and defeating the ends of justice have seized certain devices. Police spokesperson Athlenda Mathe says Mogotsi, who survived a shooting in Vosloorus on the Gauteng East Rand on Sunday, was also met by the team handling […]
