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June 5, 2026 Tania Haynes How would you like to share the article? Minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni during Friday’s media conference. (Photo: Tania Heyns/Maroela Media) Pres. Cyril Ramaphosa’s cabinet has agreed that the bill on the repeal of certain justice laws from the era before 1994 be submitted to parliament for further consideration. This bill is an initiative of the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development to delete outdated, contradictory or remaining apartheid and colonial laws. Once parliament approves the bill, the 149 specific apartheid-era laws that are still officially in force will be repealed in their entirety. “The bill seeks…

KwaNdengezi police have arrested three security guards for attempted murder, vandalism and assault following an incident in which a video has gone viral, where it is suspected that an e-hailing driver was hit and the wheel of his car was shot during an altercation with security guards associated with the taxi association in KwaNdengezi on Wednesday morning, 3 June 2026.The information reveals that the driver of the hailing car was loading passengers on the MR518 road when he was stopped by two security vehicles. The driver was able to drive but was followed and his car was hit by one…

(Archive photo: GroundUp) The collapse of Mpumalanga’s road infrastructure is forcing farmers in rural areas to use their own funds and equipment to repair roads, despite the billions of rand allocated for road maintenance. Werner Weber, FF Plus MPW in Mpumalanga, says the situation has now reached a critical point where those who must drive the economy must do the government’s work themselves. “It is unacceptable that the people who put food on South Africans’ tables now also have to take over the state’s basic duties to simply get their products to the markets.” Billions budgeted, little visible The national…

With less than a week to go until the FIFA World Cup 2026 begins, the buzz around football’s most prestigious tournament is growing.The monthlong spectacle, featuring the best talent, will be the longest and biggest edition in the tournament’s 96-year history.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listAhead of the 2026 World Cup, Al Jazeera takes a look at the top five key talking points:World Cup across three countries, in a firstAll men’s World Cup editions between 1930, the inaugural tournament, and the last one in 2022, were held in a single host nation, barring 2002 when Japan and South Korea…

WRITERS, directors, producers and actors in films and television dramas – especially young people in the role of acting have been given another chance to enter the competition to honor them with the Simon Mabhunu Sabela KZN Film and Television Awards.The return of this awards competition, which is coming back for the 13th time this year – has been announced by the body that organizes it, the KwaZulu-Natal Tourism and Film Authority, where it revealed that this year’s entry opens on June 8, until it closes at the end of July.This year, the awards ceremony for the winners in different…

June 5, 2026 Tania HaynesHow would you like to share the article?Genl. maj. Richard Shibiri (Foto: Justice, Crime Prevention and Security/X)Maj. Gen. Richard Shibiri, suspended head of the police’s organized crime unit, has been sacked.Shibiri was suspended in February after being implicated in the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry.He was given the go-ahead following internal disciplinary processes.Brig. Athlenda Mathe, national spokesperson for the police, confirmed on Friday that as part of an internal disciplinary process, Shibiri was found guilty of misconduct in relation to behavior that brought the organization into disrepute, “including his association with a known criminal”.The Madlanga Commission heard…

People have been urged not to wait for big drops but to get up and go for cancer screening as this disease destroys 65 000 people a year in this country.The call was blown by the Chairperson of the Health Committee in Parliament, Mrs. Faith Muthambi yesterday as people who survived this deadly disease were being celebrated, which is the second most sarcastic of people in the country. He said that this disease not only affects the person who is carrying it, but also leaves scars on the family that has it.”We celebrate the people who get infected, get treated…

(Foto: Australian Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water / AFP) Australian conservation officers have seized more than 100,000 illegally bred cockroaches in a raid at a commercial breeding operation in the countryside. According to authorities, the insects have a black market value of more than $140,000 (about R2.5 million). The raid was carried out at a commercial breeder in the town of Bathurst, west of Sydney, Australia’s Department of Environment said on Friday. Among the insects seized were Madagascar “hissing” cockroaches, a large species known for the hissing sound they make to scare off predators, as well as…

The family of a girl from H2, Sikhaleni, Mpangeni, wants an end to immigrant shops in the area, after she fell ill and died late after eating chips on Sunday.Anele Nomagugu Tshabalala (2) is said to have been confirmed as dead when he arrived at the Thokoza clinic, after being rushed there in distress.According to her grandfather, Ms. Khanyisile Chili, it was around 8 in the morning when Anele asked her mother for money to buy chips as usual.”Her mother just told them to go and buy them both, they went out to the store. They came back with two…

Photo for illustration. (Photo: Isabel Venter / Maroela Media) The department of correctional services says it is ready to take over the full operating responsibility of the Mangaung correctional center in the Free State from 1 July this year when the existing public-private partnership agreement comes to an end. During a presentation to the portfolio committee on correctional services in parliament on Tuesday, the department confirmed that all systems and preparations are in place to allow the transition to take place without interruptions. The Mangaung Correctional Center has been managed since 2001 in terms of a public-private partnership. The agreement…