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June 5, 2026 Tania HaynesHow would you like to share the article?Genl. maj. Richard Shibiri (Foto: Justice, Crime Prevention and Security/X)Maj. Gen. Richard Shibiri, suspended head of the police’s organized crime unit, has been sacked.Shibiri was suspended in February after being implicated in the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry.He was given the go-ahead following internal disciplinary processes.Brig. Athlenda Mathe, national spokesperson for the police, confirmed on Friday that as part of an internal disciplinary process, Shibiri was found guilty of misconduct in relation to behavior that brought the organization into disrepute, “including his association with a known criminal”.The Madlanga Commission heard…

People have been urged not to wait for big drops but to get up and go for cancer screening as this disease destroys 65 000 people a year in this country.The call was blown by the Chairperson of the Health Committee in Parliament, Mrs. Faith Muthambi yesterday as people who survived this deadly disease were being celebrated, which is the second most sarcastic of people in the country. He said that this disease not only affects the person who is carrying it, but also leaves scars on the family that has it.”We celebrate the people who get infected, get treated…

(Foto: Australian Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water / AFP) Australian conservation officers have seized more than 100,000 illegally bred cockroaches in a raid at a commercial breeding operation in the countryside. According to authorities, the insects have a black market value of more than $140,000 (about R2.5 million). The raid was carried out at a commercial breeder in the town of Bathurst, west of Sydney, Australia’s Department of Environment said on Friday. Among the insects seized were Madagascar “hissing” cockroaches, a large species known for the hissing sound they make to scare off predators, as well as…

The family of a girl from H2, Sikhaleni, Mpangeni, wants an end to immigrant shops in the area, after she fell ill and died late after eating chips on Sunday.Anele Nomagugu Tshabalala (2) is said to have been confirmed as dead when he arrived at the Thokoza clinic, after being rushed there in distress.According to her grandfather, Ms. Khanyisile Chili, it was around 8 in the morning when Anele asked her mother for money to buy chips as usual.”Her mother just told them to go and buy them both, they went out to the store. They came back with two…

Photo for illustration. (Photo: Isabel Venter / Maroela Media) The department of correctional services says it is ready to take over the full operating responsibility of the Mangaung correctional center in the Free State from 1 July this year when the existing public-private partnership agreement comes to an end. During a presentation to the portfolio committee on correctional services in parliament on Tuesday, the department confirmed that all systems and preparations are in place to allow the transition to take place without interruptions. The Mangaung Correctional Center has been managed since 2001 in terms of a public-private partnership. The agreement…

Janice du Plessis from Maroela Media on the golf course. (Photo: Christine Oelofse/Maroela Media) The Woodhill golf course in Pretoria was teeming with fourball teams on Wednesday at Maroela Media’s golf day for the benefit of prospective journalism students. A total of 132 players in 33 teams packed the leafy green golf course to raise money for Maroela Media’s study fund, which is used to give future journalists a chance to study in this field. The study fund is administered by Solidarity Helping Hand Study Trust, which manages more than 220 study funds on behalf of various donors. More than…

Mogadishu, Somalia – Mustafa, 33, dreads election time in Somalia. He drives a bajaj — a three-wheeled taxi — and says that when tensions rise, as they always do when polls are near, the whole city feels it, and drivers like him are among the first.On Wednesday, he was passing through the Hawl Wadaag district when heavy gunfire between government and opposition forces erupted all around him.Recommended Stories list of 2 itemsend of list“I couldn’t even think. Everyone was shouting and running for their lives, and we all fled from the bullets,” he told Al Jazeera. “We haven’t seen fighting…

School children from KwaShukela Primary, Jozini were rushed to hospital after eating apples.It is a country found out that the apples were given to these students at school as there is a program to give food to students every day.It turns out that the learning of everything has been disrupted and the students are complaining about having stomachaches after eating apples.At that time, it is said that the teachers were panicking, it seems that they were confused and their heads were shaking because of what they were seeing happening in front of them.They even had to be rushed to the…

Photo for illustration. (Photo: Unsplash) South Africa’s forensic DNA system has been under pressure for years, but new figures confirm that the long-standing backlog has now reached a critical level. The latest report from the national forensic oversight and ethics board shows that the vast majority of DNA samples are not processed within the prescribed legal timeframe. In addition, a growing backlog of some 175,500 DNA entries that have already exceeded the set deadlines has placed a significant burden on the criminal justice system. Against this background, pressure groups and political parties warn that delays in forensic evidence already have…

The Department of Public Works and Infrastructure in KwaZulu-Natal will use R20 million to prevent corruption, save money and speed up the needs of the people.This was revealed by Minister Martin Mayer when he delivered his speech at a major technical conference organized by his department in Mayville, yesterday.He said they sat down and realized that technology has a huge role to play in ensuring that many things are done properly.First of all, he mentioned that technology wants to have its role in saving money. He said that there are documents that he has to sign and then they are…