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The Pretoria High Court has heard how police failed to cordon off Senzo Meyiwa’s murder scene, leaving the site vulnerable to tampering. This as the cross-examination of Sergeant Patrick Mthethwa concluded in the footballer’s murder trial yesterday. Meyiwa was gunned down at his girlfriend singer Kelly Khumalo’s Vosloorus home in October 2014. The police officer was among the first to arrive at the murder scene. He’d been working as a […]

Springbok Rugby World Cup captain, Siya Kolisi, as well as Ox Nche and Jaden Hendrikse will make their first Test appearances of the year on Saturday when the team lines up against Wales in their second World Cup warm-up match at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff. Kolisi and Nche make their return from injury, while Hendrikse makes his first appearance following a family bereavement. Springbok coach, Jacques Nienaber, named an […]

The ANC Youth League is refusing to apologise to Public Enterprises Minister, Pravin Gordhan. The Minister had demanded the apology after the governing party's youth wing during an interview with The Citizen recently accused him of being intent on selling off Eskom after he approved the restructuring of the embattled power utility into three separate entities. Gordhan has described ANCYL President Collen Malatji's statements as deliberate distortions of the truth […]

South Africa's official unemployment rate has decreased by 0.3% to 32.6% in the second quarter of 2023, a seventh consecutive increase in employment since the fourth quarter of 2021. Statistician-General of South Africa, Risenga Maluleke, made the announcement on Tuesday. According to Statistics SA, the number of employed persons increased by 154 000 to 16.3 million between April and June this year. This is while the number of unemployed persons […]

  As South Africans celebrate the Johannesburg High Court's decision to sentence convicted paedophile, Gerhard Ackerman, to 12 life terms - NGO, Tears Foundation, says the ring he operated with must also be brought to book.  The foundation's Interventions Team Supervisor, Kavya Swaminathan, says while the court's decision is welcomed, there is still more work to be done. Ackerman was sentenced to 12 life terms for more than 700 charges […]

The state has failed to prove a link between the firearm used to kill Senzo Meyiwa, and an illegal handgun found in accused no 3 Mthobisi Mncube’s possession when he was arrested for the footballer's murder. Police Sergeant Mandla Masondo revealed this in the high court in Pretoria on Monday. The state witness detailed his more than 20 years experience to the court, dealing mostly with organised crime and taxi […]

Gauteng born 26-year-old, Natasha Joubert, has been crowned Miss South Africa 2023. Joubert takes over the reins from Limpopo's finest, Ndavi Nokeri. Joubert was crowned at the prestigious event held at the Sun International SunBet Arena at Time Square in Pretoria on Sunday. She becomes the first to wear the glittering new Mowana “Tree of Life” crown from Nungu Diamonds. This year's pageant was judged by an incredible panel, including […]

Cricket South Africa named the squads for the white-ball tour against Australia on Monday afternoon. Titans and former SA U19 batter, Dewald Brevis, earns his maiden call-up to both the T20 International and One-Day International squads. The 20-year-old made a name for himself as the leading run-scorer at the ICC U19 Men’s Cricket World Cup in January 2022 with 506 runs – the most by any batter in a single […]

The Section 194 parliamentary committee has recommended that suspended Public Protector, Busisiwe Mkhwebane, be removed from office. The committee found there were grounds to sustain charges of misconduct and incompetence. This is in relation to her probes into the Absa/Bankorp lifeboat and Vrede Dairy farm sagas. She was also found by the majority of MPs to have displayed a lack of impartiality in her handling of the SARS rogue unit […]

Political analyst, Professor Dirk Kotze, says NGOs might be most upset by government's decision to release former president Jacob Zuma from prison and chances of them winning a legal challenge over it are slim. Earlier on Friday, National Correctional Services Commissioner, Makgothi Thobakgale, announced that the former president handed himself over to the Escourt prison officials where he was processed and later released. Thobakgale says he had taken a decision […]