# The Randburg Magistrate’s Court in Gauteng has questioned businessman and associate of suspended deputy national police commissioner Shadrack Sibiya, Stuart Scharnick, about the residential addresses listed in his affidavit. He is applying for bail after being charged with gun-related charges. The court says the provided addresses should indicate where a person actually resides. Scharnick, […]
# Businessman Mpho Malema linked to the 16-million-rand Emfuleni municipal fleet tender fraud case will remain behind bars for another week. Malema appeared briefly in the Vanderbijlpark Magistrates Court this morning. He was arrested last Thursday by the Gauteng Political Killings Task Team. His company was awarded the tender in 2022 to supply 18 vehicles […]
# The president of the Afrika Mayibuye Movement, Floyd Shivambu, says the party will abolish the tender system in municipalities, blaming it for widespread corruption and poor service delivery. Shivambu was speaking at the launch of the party’s local government election campaign in Midrand. He says political leaders often use tenders for self-enrichment at the […]
# A multidisciplinary raid aimed at capturing hundreds of undocumented foreign nationals in KwaSithebe, north of KwaZulu-Natal, turned out fruitless. Officials from the provincial government, police and other state entities descended on factories in Mandeni this morning following intelligence that hundreds were illegally employed there. But they found none. Workers claim information about the raid […]
# Soccer: Belgium won’t support Gianni Infantino’s bid for re-election as FIFA president unless it receives a satisfactory explanation over the handling of American striker Folarin Balogun’s red card during the World Cup. FIFA suspended the automatic red card, apparently after the president of co-host America, Donald Trump, spoke to Infantino, allowing Balogun to play […]
# DA-leier Geordin Hill-Lewis sê sukkelende metro’s sal eers hul geldsake en basiese dienste moet herstel voor groter infrastruktuurprojekte aangepak kan word, insluitend die regmaak van slaggate, straatligte en verkeersligte. Hy het aan die SABC gesê grootskaalse infrastruktuur-herstelwerk sal miljarde-rand kos. Die DA werf intussen kiesersteun in metros soos Johannesburg, Kaapstad, Nelson Mandelabaai en eThekwini. […]
# ActionSA has exposed what it calls a governance failure at the Road Accident Fund, where over 29-million-rand was paid to 16 employees sitting at home on suspension, some since 2024. It amounts to an average of one-point-82-million-rand per employee for no work performed. The party’s Alan Beesley says a parliamentary reply shows three employees […]
# Motoriste wat reis tussen Kaapstad en die Kaapse Wynland kan weer deur die Hugenote-tonnel ry nadat dit vir alle voertuie heropen is. Die tonnel op die N1 is Vrydag gesluit weens sterk wind voor dit Saterdag slegs vir ligte voertuie heropen is. Die Wes-Kaapse regering het bevestig beperkings op swaar voertuie, woonwaens en sleepwaens […]
# Twee plaasaanvalle het kommer laat ontstaan oor landelike veiligheid in Stellenbosch en die Kaapse Wynland. Volgens berigte het ‘n hoogs-gekoördineerde aanval die naweek in die Klapmuts-gebied plaasgevind waar ses gewapende mans by ‘n plaashuis ingebreek, ‘n egpaar aangeval en vasgebind en waardevolle besittings gesteel het. Polisiewoordvoerder Frederick van Wyk het bevestig dat ‘n egpaar […]
