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(Archive photo: Tania Heyns/Maroela Media) On Wednesday, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) successfully opposed the bail applications of seven accused accused of allegedly intimidating long-distance bus operators and blackmailing them for money. Bonke Makalala, Simphiwe Mtshala, Mzuvukile Mbiyo, Siyanda Dyantyti, Gwendoline Mazele, Siphelele Kwaza and Simphiwe Gxumayo are facing 156 charges, including extortion, attempted extortion, intimidation, money laundering, kidnapping, interference with infrastructure, violations of the Organized Crime Prevention Act and failure to file tax returns. The charges against them follow after they were arrested between 27 and 29 March after they allegedly disrupted more than 150 long-distance buses traveling between…

KOHLISANA is armed in the coalition government of the parties in the country, GNU and GPU as the Secretary General of the ANC, Mr. Fikile Mbalula, says they are not friends.Mbalula said they want to succeed in the elections so that they don’t have to persuade other parties when they have to make decisions.”Do you think we are friends with the DA, or the IFP? Do you think they want us? They don’t want us. There is nothing we can do, we need to work together but they don’t want us and they are not our friends,” said Mbalula.He said…

JUDGMENTS The High Court of Pietermaritzburg sentenced each person to life imprisonment, the relatives of those convicted of murder are comparing him to another.The convicts, Mthokozisi Ngwane (34) and Sanele Mqondisi Ngwane (37), were convicted of shooting and killing Mr. Nduduzo Ndlovu in Himeville, Mgungundlovu, on February 2, 2023. According to Mrs. Natasha Ramkisson-Kara of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), those who were convicted, went to this place to search for a certain person they intended to kill but ended up killing the deceased.It is said that although the convicts were able to successfully escape from the scene of the…

Agricultural exports during this quarter amounted to $3.30 billion (R59.4 billion), while imports decreased by 10.6% to $1.76 billion (R31.68 billion). (Photo for illustration/iStock) In the first quarter of this year, South Africa’s agricultural sector recorded the largest trade surplus ever for a first quarter, despite challenges such as foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) and falling exports to the USA. According to AgriSA’s latest trade report, the sector achieved a trade surplus of $1.55 billion (more than R28 billion) from January to March this year. This is 16.1% higher than in the same period last year and the highest first quarter trade…

It is NOT known where the body of the leader of the Nyonini church, the Christian Catholic Holy Spirit in Zion, Dr. Thamsanqa Nkonyane, who was the president of the church who passed away two weeks ago, was buried at his home in Durban.The day passed on Saturday, the issue of the suspension of the funeral service of this leader which was going on at the headquarters of this church in Jakkals Span in Sizweni, in Newcastle, is still in the headlines.This comes after the service was about to end and the police who were accompanying Nkonyane’s wife, MaNgcobo, who…

Barbara Creecy, Minister of Transport. (Photo: Road Traffic Management Corporation/X) The DA is intensifying its fight against transport minister Barbara Creecy’s plans for possible new levies to keep the Road Accident Fund (ROF) afloat. According to this party, South Africans should not continue to pay for a fund that has been in a financial crisis for years. Dr. Chris Hunsinger, DA MP and the party’s spokesman on transport, says at a time when South Africans are faced with rising fuel prices, food inflation and increasing financial pressure, the government is considering a new levy linked to vehicle license renewals. “Instead…

IZNYANE le Silo, Prince Mukelile Zibusiso of Zwelithini, has warned the students of Kwa Nodunga, Kwa Maphumulo, Zithabeni Secondary, for mixing education with life. Prince Mukelile said that he will put everything in his father’s mouth because many parents do not talk to their children about issues related to sex. “Don’t look at school books and textbooks. Don’t panic. Didn’t it say who I was born from? How did the Beast speak? Didn’t he just put things as they are? We are Zulus. I can’t deceive you either.” He said he is talking like this because he knows that many…

(Photo: Tania Heyns/X) Rise Mzansi leader Songezo Zibi says there is nothing illegal about the R30 million donation his party received from an entity known as We Are The People and recently declared. Zibi says the Act on the Funding of Political Parties provides for this donation. According to him, it is an earlier loan amounting to R30 million that has been converted into a donation. He made it very clear at a media conference in Johannesburg on Monday that the R30 million was not recently given to Rise Mzansi. “This is previous election debt,” he explained when asked about…

US Representative Thomas Massie set to honour the crew of the vessel on the House floor, bringing attention to the 1967 attack.On June 8, 1967, at least 34 US sailors were killed and 171 others were wounded in an Israeli attack on the USS Liberty, a United States Navy technical research ship stationed in the Mediterranean Sea off Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.Israel claimed it was a case of mistaken identity, saying its naval forces thought the vessel was Egyptian. But some of the survivors and researchers have disputed the Israeli version of the incident. They lament that successive governments did little…

ANOTHER complaint was filed by the Information Regulator (IR), which wanted a review of the decision of the Gauteng High Court, which favored the Department of Basic Education, by continuing to publish matric results in newspapers.The organization went to court to stop the publication of the results, complaining that people’s information is being released, which is not in line with the Protection of Personal Information (POPIA) law. The court’s decision on Wednesday was also in favor of the department as well as the organization AfriForum which is part of this case and wants to continue publishing the results in the…