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After Joshlin Smith’s mother, Racquel “Kelly” Smith, received an envelope, allegedly containing R20 000 from a “sangoma” on 18 February last year, the child was to be collected at 14:00 the following day, the State’s key witness, Lourentia “Renz” Lombaard, told the Western Cape High Court.
Former Western Cape Crime Intelligence boss Mzwandile Tiyo, 59, and his co-accused, former police colonel Hildegard Mackier, appeared in the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court on Friday on a slew of charges emanating from a firearm Tiyo allegedly lost in 2023.
The man accused of raping Gauteng businesswoman Andy Kawa in December 2010 testified in the Eastern Cape High Court on Friday that a woman paid him R200 for sex after approaching him at the beach 15 years ago – around the time he is alleged to have raped her.
Parliament’s ethics committee says it is committed to “ensuring accountability of all Members of Parliament” after it found nine MPs, including three deputy ministers and a minister, in breach of the ethics code for failing to disclose their interests on time.
Controversial businesswoman Shauwn Mkhize’s legal team locked horns with the South African Revenue Service (SARS) in an urgent application in the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Durban this week to stop the auction of her football club, Royal AM, but she eventually withdrew her objection to the auction.
Parliament’s ethics committee says it is committed to “ensuring accountability of all Members of Parliament” after it found nine MPs, including three deputy ministers and a minister, in breach of the ethics code for failing to disclose their interests to Parliament on time.
In the State’s most damning evidence to date, a key State witness in the trial of Racquel “Kelly” Smith, who is accused of the 2024 kidnapping of her daughter – then-6-year-old Joshlin – said Smith confessed to her that she had sold the child to a sangoma.
SA Corporate Real Estate – which owns industrial, retail and residential properties mainly in big metros – reported a climb in its distribution and a fall in vacancies for its year to end December, citing the defensive nature of its portfolio and a push to introduce more grocers.
Thumae Mpiti, a feared zama zama leader and lieutenant of the infamous Basotho syndicate, Terene ea Mokata, is a fugitive following allegations of his involvement in the gruesome double murder of his wife, Dieketseng Chaka, and her boyfriend.