# Police arrested 14-thousand-274 suspects for serious and other crimes during intensified Shanela operations conducted across the country last week. A further one-thousand-854 wanted suspects were apprehended. A total of 369 unlicensed liquor establishments were shut down, with KwaZulu-Natal accounting for 216 of the closures. Police spokesperson Amanda Van Wyk says during the operation 148 illegal […]
# The South African Council of Churches says the recent mass shootings in the country are no longer a series of isolated tragedies, but a national crisis. Over the weekend, 18 people were shot dead at a tavern in Wedela, Gauteng, while ten people were killed at an entertainment venue in Lwandle, Cape Town. Meanwhile, […]
# Die Parlement se Ampsklagkomitee het sy beëdigde verklaring ingedien teen die regsuitdaging van die EFF en African Legal Professionals Association, oor die komitee se besluit om sy aanbeveling van advokaat Thandazani Madonsela as getuienisleier te herroep. Die EFF en African Legal Professionals Association het verlede maand afsonderlike aansoeke by die Wes-Kaapse Hooggeregshof ingedien om […]
# South African Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago warns that a major cyberattack could spark the next global financial crisis. He delivered a keynote address at the 3rd Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection Forum on Africa and geopolitics in Johannesburg yesterday. Kganyago stated that the worsening global disorder, driven by geopolitics, climate shocks, artificial intelligence […]
# Die EFF vra dat ʼn gespesialiseerde nasionale taakspan aangestel word om massaskietvoorvalle en vuurwapengeweld te ondersoek. Dit volg na die onlangse massaskietvoorvalle in Gauteng, die Wes-Kaap en KwaZulu-Natal, waarin meer as 40 mense dood is. Die EFF sê hierdie voorvalle weerspieël die dodelike verband tussen onwettige mynbedrywighede, georganiseerde misdaad en die toename in onwettige […]
# Die waarnemende minister van Polisie, Firoz Cachalia, sê Interpol soek steeds na Rajesh en Atul Gupta, terwyl die regering voortgaan met pogings om die broers aan die land te laat lewer. Hulle is in Junie 2022 in die Verenigde Arabiese Emirate gearresteer. Suid-Afrika was in 2023 onsuksesvol in pogings om die broers uitgelewer te […]
# Parliament’s Impeachment Committee has filed its responding affidavit opposing the legal challenge by the EFF and the African Legal Professionals Association over the committee’s decision to rescind its recommendation of advocate Thandazani Madonsela as evidence leader. Last month, the EFF and African Legal Professionals Association filed separate applications in the Western Cape High Court […]
# Die minister van Internasionale Betrekkinge en Samewerking, Ronald Lamola, sê rassisme en verwante onverdraagsaamheid kan nie deur staatsoptrede alleen uit die weg geruim word nie. Hy het deelgeneem aan ‘n hoëvlakvergadering van die Verenigde Nasies om die 25ste herdenking van die aanvaarding van die Durban-verklaring en -aksieplan te gedenk. Die verklaring erken geskiedkundige onregte […]
# The EFF is calling for the establishment of a specialised national task force against mass shootings and organised gun violence. This follows the recent deadly mass shootings in Gauteng, Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal, which left over 40 people dead. The EFF says these incidents demonstrate the deadly intersection between illegal mining, organised criminality, and […]
