Author: staff
Just a little over a month after Pastor Timothy Omotoso was acquitted on more than 30 charges of rape and human trafficking, the Nigerian televangelist is planning a massive crusade in East London next week. However, a question mark hangs over his citizenship status in South Africa.
On Tuesday in the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Pietermaritzburg the testimony of a former outpatient clerk at Stanger Hospital corroborated discrepancies in the initial inquest timeline of the alleged accident. The discrepancies had been raised by a previous expert witness who led evidence in the reopened inquest of ANC leader Albert Luthuli.
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Vehicle dealer and rental group Combined Motor Holdings reported a more than one quarter fall in profits for its year to end February, citing strain on its margins as consumers shied away from big-ticket items, as well as a price war among its rental competitors.
Western Cape Judge Mushtak Parker’s attempt to backtrack on his accusation that then-judge president John Hlophe had assaulted him should be rejected as “false, fanciful, ill-conceived, and spurious”, a Judicial Service Commission evidence leader has argued.
Despite a Department of Basic Education (DBE) directive that all officials and educators, including those in office- and school-based posts, must be vetted against the National Registry of Sex Offenders, only 19% nationally have been vetted.
ActionSA has filed an application in terms of the Promotion of Access to Information Act to obtain the Independent Police Investigative Directorate’s (IPID) report on the theft that took place at President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Phala Phala farm, which Police Minister Senzo Mchunu has classified as “top secret”.
A complex matter is developing in Table View, Cape Town, as a homeowner in a residential complex has sought a protection from harassment order against the chairperson of the homeowners’ association, claiming that she fears for her safety.
An influential, anonymous right-wing X account posting racist tropes and promoting selective views that have reinforced misinformation about South Africa in the eyes of US President Donald Trump and his billionaire donor Elon Musk, has been unmasked.
The process of identifying Sebastiaan Jooste as the owner of the “Boer” @twatterbaas account followed tried-and-tested open-source investigation techniques but relied extensively on biographical and geographical information he posted himself.
FNB has signed a R1.8-billion credit risk-sharing facility with the International Finance Corporation and raised a further R2.5 billion of funding from a social bond issued by its parent, FirstRand, as it looks to roll out loans for more SMEs.