# The Motor Industry Staff Association says a ruling by the Motor Industry Bargaining Council Dispute Resolution Centre confirms that workers cannot be dismissed for telling the truth during disciplinary hearings. The case involved a service advisor at Mossel Bay Ford in the Western Cape, dismissed after giving evidence in a workplace dispute. MISA’s Phakamile […]
# Gauteng traffic police chief inspector Samuel Mashaba says traffic officers and police officers both serve the state but have different responsibilities. He was testifying before the Madlanga commission in Pretoria into a major 2021 drug bust in Aeroton, south of Johannesburg, where more than 700 kilograms of cocaine were seized. Mashaba says there was […]
# Environmental groups have secured a legal win in their challenge to the environmental authorisation for the proposed four-thousand megawatts nuclear-one project at Duynefontein near Koeberg. The High Court in the Western Cape has ordered the government to provide key information within ten days. Southern African Faith Communities’ Environment Institute’s Ntombizodidi Mapapu argues the project […]
# Die Madlanga-kommissie het die getuienis van die sakeman Tumelo Nku tot 18 Junie uitgestel weens ‘n sterfte in sy familie. Nku sal na verwagting getuig oor die Aeroton-kokaïen-inbraak in 2021, waarin 751 kilogram kokaïen ter waarde van ‘n geraamde 300-miljoen-rand gekonfiskeer is. Die kommissie het bewerings aangehoor dat Nku as ‘n polisie-informant sonder behoorlike […]
# Die Landdroshof in Musina het ‘n vragmotorbestuurder tot 20 jaar tronkstraf gevonnis vir ‘n poging om plofstof ter waarde van een-miljoen-rand deur die Beitbrug-grenspos na Suid-Afrika te smokkel. Edgar Maroto is in April in hegtenis geneem nadat owerhede duisende ontploffingspatrone, plofstoftoestelle en lontrolle in sy besit ontdek het. Die 42-jarige is tot 15 jaar […]
# Die Parlement sê daar is geen vertragings in die Phala Phala-ampsklagproses teen president Cyril Ramaphosa nie. News24 berig die sekretaris van die Nasionale Vergadering, Masibulele Xaso, het aan lede van die Parlement gesê die proses vorder volgens plan. Die ampsklagkomitee het verlede week sy eerste vergadering gehou en Makashule Gana van Rise Mzansi tot […]
# Die verhoor van die sewe mans wat beskuldig word van die moord op kletsrymer Kiernan ‘AKA’ Forbes, en sy vriend Tebello Motsoane, is in die Hooggeregshof in Durban uitgestel. Die verdediging het die hof meegedeel dat hulle nie gereed is om voort te gaan nie, en verwys na uitstaande regsdokumente en beperkte toegang om […]
# Die staat het die EFF-leier Julius Malema se poging om sy vuurwapen-skuldigbevinding tersyde te stel verwerp en sê sy appèlaansoek is ongegrond. Malema appelleer teen sy vonnis van vyf jaar vir aanklagte wat verband hou met ‘n voorval in 2018 waar hy op video afgeneem is toe hy na bewering ‘n geweer afgevuur het […]
# The trial of seven men accused of murdering rapper Kiernan ‘AKA’ Forbes, and his friend Tebello Motsoane has been postponed in the High Court in Durban. The defence told the court it was not ready to proceed, citing outstanding legal documents and limited access to consult with clients at eBongweni Correctional Centre. State prosecutor […]
