# Rise Mzansi has condemned DA member of Parliament Mark Burke for making false claims against its leader and Parliament’s standing committee on Public Accounts chairperson, Songezo Zibi. The party says Burke’s allegations that Public Investment Corporation documents were withheld are baseless, as all members received them electronically. Rise Mzansi’s Mabine Seabe accuses Burke of […]
# The Freedom Front Plus Youth says the ANC and EFF’s race-based rhetoric is fuelling unrest and violence at university campuses. This follows protests at the University of the Free State over claims that the new financial policy is racially discriminatory. FF Plus youth leader Chriszaan du Plessis says the policy is fair and does […]
# The DA is demanding that Friday’s release of the police’s quarterly crime statistics include figures on gender-based violence and crimes against children. DA police spokesperson Lisa Schickerling says the long-delayed stats highlight the police’s collapse in accountability. Schickerling warns that omitting GBV and child crime data denies victims recognition and prevents proper resource allocation. […]
# Die Hooggeregshof in Pietermaritzburg sal op 30 Oktober uitspraak lewer in die heropende geregtelike ondersoek na die dood van die voormalige president van die ANC, hoofman Albert Luthuli, in 1967. Die staat het in sy slotbetoog teenstrydighede in die oorspronklike ondersoek uitgelig en die hof gevra om te beslis dat Luthuli vermoor is. Natasha […]
# Die Hooggeregshof in Mbombela, Mpumalanga, het ‘n Mosambiekse vrou, Clara Masinga, tot 23-jaar tronkstraf gevonnis vir die moord met voorbedagte rade op haar elfjarige stiefdogter, Jennifer Gumbi. Masinga het in 2015 die kind se roomys vergiftig as vergelding teen haar ma. Die hof het die grusaamheid van die misdaad beklemtoon en gesinsgeweld veroordeel. Die […]
# ‘n Advokaat wat van die rol geskrap is, Malesela Teffo, het aangedui hy wil as vriend van die hof aansluit by die borgtoghersiening teen die hoof van die polisie se misdaadintelligensie, Dumisani Khumalo en twee medebeskuldigdes. Teffo beweer die beskuldigdes is gevaarlik en betrokke by sy tronkstraf. Khumalo en sy medebeskuldigdes versoek versagtende borgtogvoorwaardes […]
# The High Court in Pietermaritzburg will deliver judgment into the reopened inquest into the 1967 death of Chief Albert Luthuli on 30 October. In the state’s closing arguments, it highlighted inconsistencies in the original inquest, urging the court to rule that Luthuli was murdered. NPA spokesperson Natasha Ramkisson-Kara says prosecutors also requested an investigation […]
# Statistieke Suid-Afrika sê verkope in die kleinhandelsektor het met 2,3-persent in August toegeneem vergeleke met dieselfde maand verlede jaar. Die meeste van die groei het van hardewarewinkels, algemene handelaars en ander kleinhandelaars gekom. Oor die drie maande tot Augustus was kleinhandel 3,2-persent hoër as verlede jaar, met sterk groei in klere, skoene en hardeware. […]
# The High Court in Mbombela, Mpumalanga, has sentenced Mozambican Clara Masinga, to 23-years imprisonment for the premeditated murder of her eleven-year-old stepdaughter, Jennifer Gumbi. Masinga poisoned the child’s ice cream in 2015 to spite Jennifer’s mother. The court noted the brutality of the crime and condemned domestic violence. The National Prosecuting Authority’s spokesperson, Monica […]
