# The General Industries Workers Union of South Africa has welcomed the modest fuel price decreases, attributed to a stronger Rand against the US dollar and lower oil prices. Both grades of petrol have gone down by five-cents a litre, while motorists will also pay 37 cents less for diesel at the pumps. Illuminating paraffin […]
# Roadrunning: The eThekwini Municipality says it is in full swing preparing for the 98th Comrades Marathon, one of the biggest sporting events on the South African calendar. More than 80 nations will be represented in the race, a down-run over approximately 89 kilometres from Pietermaritzburg to Durban on Sunday. The municipality’s spokesperson, Gugu Sisilana, […]
# The GOOD Party says gender-based violence and femicide are a national crisis, and the Western Cape is not immune. Between January and March this year, one-thousand-189 rapes and 411 sexual assaults were reported in the province. GOOD’s secretary general, Brett Herron, says when rape and murder become a normalised part of childhood in working-class communities, […]
# Die koshuisbestuurder van die Walter Sisulu Universiteit wat daarvan beskuldig is dat hy ‘n student, Sisonke Mbolekwa noodlottig geskiet het, is borgtog van tien-duisend-rand toegestaan. Manelisi Mampane het in die Mthatha-landdroshof verskyn op aanklagte van moord, poging tot moord en die onwettige besit van ‘n vuurwapen en ammunisie. Die voorval het plaasgevind tydens studentebetogings […]
# Action Society sê hulle is woedend dat die gewese Kaapstadse polisieman, Marius van der Westhuizen, weer mag aansoek doen vir parool. Hy is in 2006 skuldig bevind aan die moorde op sy drie kinders. Parool is in Junie verlede jaar aan Van der Westhuizen toegestaan, maar na formele hersiening teruggetrek deur die minister van […]
# Action Society expressed outrage over a renewed parole application by former Cape Town police officer Marius van der Westhuizen, who was convicted in 2006 for murdering his three children. Van der Westhuizen had been granted parole in June last year, but it was overturned by the Minister of Correctional Services, Dr Pieter Groenewald, in […]
# Die hof het beslis die adjunkpresident van die PA, Kenny Kunene, moet die EFF-leier, Julius Malema, se regskoste betaal in ‘n lastersaak wat spruit uit beledigende opmerkings wat Kunene in Mei verlede jaar gemaak het tydens ‘n PA-saamtrek. Kunene het beweer Malema het bande met die vermeende sigaretsmokkelaar, Adriano Mazzotti, en dat hy dwelms […]
# The government urges the public to help police track down those responsible for the brutal murder of the 14-year-old Likhona Fosa in Roodepoort in Gauteng. The deputy minister of the Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, Steve Letsike, and Police deputy minister, Polly Boshielo, today visited the scene in Durban Deep where […]
# Die regering vra die publiek om die polisie te help om diegene wat verantwoordelik is vir die moord op die 14-jarige Likhona Fosa in Roodepoort, Gauteng op te spoor. Die adjunkminister vir Vroue, Jeug en Persone met Gestremdhede, Steve Letsike, en die adjunkminister van Polisie, Polly Boshielo, het vandag die toneel in Durban Deep […]
