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One suspect was killed and four arrested after a shootout with the police in Athlone.The group, which is suspected to be linked to a business robbery incident in Lansdowne, was traveling in a gray Toyota Avanza without number plates when the Flying Squad officers tried to stop them.It is reported that the driver tried to run away from the police and the police opened fire. The car finally stopped. There were five suspects who were inside, one of them was found dead, the other was taken to Groote Schuur Hospital, the remaining suspects were arrested.The Independent Police Investigative Directorate is…
Thousands of EFF supporters marched to the Jan Smuts Stadium on Tuesday evening for a special vigil before Malema’s sentencing. (Photo: EFF/X)Sentencing proceedings in Julius Malema’s firearms case are expected to begin on Wednesday in the Magistrate’s Court in KuGompo City (formerly East London).Magistrate Twanette Olivier, who is hearing the case, is expected to deliver a verdict on Thursday.Malema took to social media on Tuesday and said he would challenge the court’s findings and apply for leave to appeal against his conviction.”It does not matter if I am guilty or if I am sent to prison. Everything this court finds…
OpenAI ChatGPT Safety Feature: ChatGPT Soon people are going to get a feature with the help of which they will be able to add the phone number of their friends or family as ‘Trusted Contact’. If ChatGPT senses that the user is going through a mental breakdown while interacting with the user, the AI chatbot will be able to send a notification alert to the number added by the user. ChatGPT Feature: A new feature is going to be available in ChatGPT soon. According to reports, OpenAI is working on a new security feature for its AI chatbot. There will…
Roelf Meyer will replace the South African ambassador who was expelled from the US by President Donald Trump in 2025.Published On 15 Apr 202615 Apr 2026South Africa has appointed Roelf Meyer, who helped negotiate the end of white minority rule in his country in the 1990s, as the next ambassador to the United States, according to local media.Meyer’s appointment is seen as a sign that Pretoria is aiming to improve its relations with Washington following a “turbulent year”, according to the South African Broadcasting Corporation.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listSouth Africa has gone without diplomatic representation in Washington,…
A MUSICIAN from Mandaba, Nkandla, Khuzani Mpungose, has revealed that the Blue Naton Festival event he held in Carnival City is to unite his Blue Nation fans, but the main thing is to unite the nation of masks.This event, which will be the second this year, will be held on May 2, and it started in high gear last year, when it was attended by crowds of people from different parts of the country to celebrate with this hero.At this year’s event, Khuzani said he wants to continue uniting the maskandi nation, by holding an event of this type with…
14 April 2026 Tania Haynes How would you like to share the article? Helen Zille on a rowboat in Dobsonville. (Photo: Screengrab) Helen Zille is clearly not afraid of water – especially not the stormy waters of politics. First there was the pothole in Douglasdale, Sandton. Now she sails in a rowing boat in Dobsonville, Soweto. Zille, the DA’s mayoral candidate in Johannesburg, shared another comical video as part of her election campaign on Tuesday, to the great amusement of social media users after Johannesburg received rain. In this video, Zille sails in a rowing boat to mockingly draw attention…
It is expected that a program will start soon that will answer the questions people have had, about a lady from KwaNongoma but based in Johannesburg, Londie London.Londie and Mzansi Magic have announced that they will soon start a program about the life of this lady Life with Londi. In this program, they revealed a little bit that different questions will be answered about the things that have been appearing about this lady, in the forums and in other programs that Londie has been a part of.This lady has appeared in programs includingThe Real Housewives of Durbanis-The Real Housewives Ultimate…
Stock Photo (Photo: Shutterstock) The Association for Communications and Technology (ACT) has withdrawn its court application against the Department of Home Affairs over the adjusted rates for its online verification system. The Minister of Internal Affairs, Dr. Leon Schreiber, welcomed the decision. The application, brought in the Gauteng High Court, challenged the new tariff structure for private companies that use the department’s Online Verification System (OVS) to verify customers’ identities against the population register. The case has now been settled after ACT formally withdrew its application. Meanwhile, several mobile network operators, which are part of ACT, have approached the department…
The legal expert on the use of social media, Mrs. Emma Sadleir, has stated that the daughter of MKP leader, Mr. Jacob Zuma, Mrs. Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, had been inciting violence during the 2021 riots.We said this yesterday, when we testified at the High Court in Durban, where Mrs Zuma-Sambudla, Advocate Dali Mpofu, complained that the expert is testifying without a proper report, called an expert report.The expert was being interrogated with his testimony that he presented earlier, that he collected on the X forum, and wrote a memorandum about what he found. He then offered his opinion on Mrs Zuma-Sambudla’s…
Dominic Goncalves, Energy Strategy Advisory Partner at Cresco Project Finance (Photo provided)Diesel, long considered South Africa’s last line of defense during power outages, can no longer be taken for granted, an energy expert warns, amid the continued disruption of global fuel supplies.Dominic Goncalves, consulting partner for energy strategy at Cresco Project Finance, says major energy consumers, domestically and internationally, are faced with a new reality.”Diesel, which has always been the backbone of emergency power, can no longer be considered reliable when the power grid fails or during a power crisis,” says Goncalves.According to him, the availability of diesel during crises…