# Mpumalanga taxi boss Joe “Ferrari” Sibanyoni returns to the stand at the Madlanga Commission today. In his last appearance in August, he made several serious claims about the taxi industry, alleged criminal networks, and his own experiences. He alleged that some taxi associations use ‘bucket money’ to fund the hiring of hitmen to carry out […]
# The African Editors Forum has expressed concern at the disappearance of South African investigative journalist Micah Reddy and his local “fixer” Kooki Mahmoud while on an assignment in Djibouti, East Africa. The pair were last seen around midday on Saturday. Reddy is Africa coordinator at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. The Department of International […]
# Die minister van Vervoer, Barbara Creecy, het die Suid-Afrikaanse Nasionale Padagentskap, SANRAL, opdrag gegee om die Moriel Infrastructure Group te ondersoek. Dit volg nadat ʼn direkteur van die maatskappy, Lawrence Mudzinganyama, op video betrap is waar hy ʼn groep vroue in ʼn dames-kleedkamer by die Vlamo-restaurant in Sandton dreig. Hy het verskoning gevra. Moriel […]
# The DA has written to National Assembly Speaker, Thoko Didiza, to request an urgent debate of national importance on the escalating gender-based violence and femicide crisis in Ekurhuleni. This comes as investigators are pursuing all possible leads in connection with the mysterious murders of nine women in the metro. The DA’s Lisa Schickerling says that […]
# Die IVP-president Velenkosini Hlabisa sê die party se plaaslikeregeringverkiesingsmanifes is nie ʼn lys leë beloftes nie, maar ʼn verbintenis om dienste betyds te lewer. Hy het die manifes gister by Kwamashu se Princess Magogo-stadion in Durban bekendgemaak. Hlabisa sê die manifes het vyf belangrike punte: werkskepping; die bespoediging van dienslewering en werkbare infrastruktuur; samewerking […]
# The Inter-Ministerial Committee on Gender-Based Violence and Femicide has approved a comprehensive emergency strategy to speedily bring to justice the perpetrators behind the killing of nine women in Ekurhuleni, Gauteng. Three persons of interest have been taken in for questioning, while police are still trying to establish whether all the murders are connected. Minister in the […]
# Die Suid-Afrikaanse ondersoekende joernalis, Micah Reddy, en sy plaaslike helper, Kooki Mahmoud, word volgens berigte in Djiboeti in Oos-Afrika vermis. Die omstandighede rondom die verdwyning van die twee mans, wat Saterdagmiddag vermis geraak het, is onbekend. Reddy is die Afrika-koördineerder by die Internasionale Konsortium van Ondersoekende Joernaliste. Hy sou na verwagting vandag die land […]
# Die Suid-Afrikaanse Polisiediens se hoof van Misdaadintelligensie, Dumisani Khumalo, en die polisiekommissaris in KwaZulu-Natal, Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, is ingeroep om te help met die ondersoek na die Ekurhuleni-moorde. ‘n Hoëvlak-, multidissiplinêre span is aangewys om die moorde op nege vroue te ondersoek. Terselfdertyd het die polisie ‘n beloning van 400-duisend-rand uitgeloof vir inligting wat kan […]
# Die waarnemende minister van Polisie, Firoz Cachalia, het bevestig dat drie verdagtes vir ondervraging in hegtenis geneem is in verband met die moord op nege vroue in Ekurhuleni, Gauteng, oor die afgelope twee maande. Van die nege liggame wat gevind is, is daar een wat nie as vermiste persoon aangemeld is nie. Die owerhede […]
