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News24 | Allowing Adetshina's mother to stay in SA on bail would send 'wrong message' – home affairs
A Department of Home Affairs official who testified in the bail application of Anabela Rungo, the mother of Miss Universe Nigeria Chidimma Adetshina, says allowing her to remain in the country after her illegal residence would send the wrong message.
A review of the Criminal Procedure Act is underway, and proposals include tightening the circumstances when police officers may use deadly force, the non-trial resolution of corporate corruption cases, and also strengthening protections afforded to victims of crime.
There is no evidence to show that two men – alleged to have flown in from Cape Town to Durban for a failed attempt on the life of a senior advocate acting for the South African Revenue Services – would interfere or endanger State witnesses if released on bail, their defence said.
At least five suspects were killed in a shootout with police in Gcuwa (Butterworth), Eastern Cape, on Thursday afternoon. The shootout happened on the N2 near Ndabakazi village, said provincial police spokesperson Lieutenant Siphokazi Mawisa.
Iga Swiatek on Wednesday praised the WTA’s “solid” action after a fearful Emma Raducanu broke down in tears at the sight of a “fixated” fan in Dubai while teenage sensation Mirra Andreeva admitted she regularly receives “hateful messages” whenever sh
Another top government school in the Eastern Cape has lodged allegations of pupil poaching against Kingswood College in Makhanda – joining at least two other schools in the province that made similar allegations against the private school over a week ago.
While opposition parties held up the postponement of the budget speech on Wednesday as an indicator of how the government of national unity was failing, parties belonging to the coalition said the postponement showed that the GNU was working.
Thousands of University of Cape Town students intended to march to Parliament on Wednesday, but those plans were dashed after Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana’s first Budget Speech under the government of national unity was called off.
A collaboration between the Serbian anti-doping agency and law enforcement operatives who seized 3,000 kilogrammes of performance-enhancing drugs and broke up an organised crime gang last year is “the future in the fight against doping”, WADA’s Direc
Manchester United paid a total of £14.5 million ($18.3 million) to sack manager Erik ten Hag, sporting director Dan Ashworth and other members of their football staff, according to the fallen English giants’ latest accounts published Wednesday.