Author: staff
Joshlin Smith’s mother, Racquel “Kelly” Smith, and her kidnapping accomplices are a step closer to finding out their fate after the Western Cape High Court transferred their case back to the multipurpose centre in Saldanha Bay for their sentencing next week.
Charges relating to the R1 billion City of Cape Town tender fraud case against former mayoral committee member Malusi Booi, alleged 28s gang leader Ralph Stanfield, his wife, Nicole Johnson, and more than 20 others have provisionally been withdrawn by the State.
The South African Weather Service has warned of wet, windy and cold to very cold conditions over the Western Cape, Northern Cape and Free State, with a possibility of light snow along the high-lying mountain tops of Western Cape, Eastern Cape up to Lesotho until Wednesday.
Nicole Johnson, the wife of alleged organised crime boss Ralph Stanfield, and herself accused of racketeering and helping run a violent criminal enterprise, bought an unbonded R5-million flat on the Atlantic Seaboard from a renowned Cape Town property developer.
Anthony Noble spent 40 years educating young minds along the Garden Route as a primary school teacher. But in the back of his mind, he held on to a dream: to own his own pottery school after a chance cleanup of a studio in 1980. Today, he boasts 12 wheels, five kilns and stories for days after taking a leap of faith in his retirement.
The popular light brown colour that adorns a large chunk of the Toyota Land Cruiser 70s sold in South Africa has been employed on the Toyota Gazoo Racing Hilux Ultimate T1+ for the upcoming South African Safari Rally that kicks off near Sun City on Sunday, 18 May.
When 15-year-old Ditshegofatso ‘DK’ Kgobisa was diagnosed with kidney failure, his mother, Rosemary Kgobisa, stepped forward to donate one of her kidneys, ultimately saving his life. Now he is 18 and has 100% kidney functionality again.
The Special Tribunal has ordered four ambulance companies run by Thapelo Buthelezi to pay back a total of over half-a-billion rand. The matter relates to contracts awarded by the Free State government, which were first reported on in Spotlight’s #Health4Sale series of investigative articles in 2018.
Today, people over 50 make up the second largest group of South Africa’s HIV-positive population. But as people age, health problems like high blood pressure, heart disease and diabetes rise too, which means more and more people will have to be treated for these conditions – on top of getting HIV care. We look at what the numbers show.
Grandmaster DJ Ready D is no stranger to South Africans and its hip hop legacy. But what does this iconic spinner of the decks – and tyres on the drift track – drive on the streets? He tells News24 Motoring editor Janine van der Post all about his cars.