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News24’s investigative team was honoured for its contribution to justice by using its platform to shine a spotlight on the targeted killings of whistleblowers and raising awareness of the dangers faced by those who expose corruption, at the 2024 Whistleblowers Awards on Wednesday evening.
Former Generations actor Fezile Makhanya’s company, Seacrest Investments 156, is mired in a corruption scandal in the Public Works and Infrastructure Department, where his business allegedly invoiced the department up to R61 million for work it didn’t complete, News24 can exclusively reveal.
As tensions rise over South Africa’s foreign policy position on Russia, some government of national unity (GNU) members have expressed their “unhappiness” at DA leader John Steenhuisen’s “behavior,” with some describing his anti-Russia utterances it as “distasteful.”
Coloured people suffered under the apartheid regime, but their suffering paled in comparison to black Africans. This according to EFF MP Nazier Paulsen who maintained there was an inexplicable link and symbiotic relationship between racism and capitalism.
Diamond dealer and alleged fraudster Louis Liebenberg will remain behind bars for now. This after he abandoned his bail bid – at least for the time being – during his first appearance in the Bronkhorstspruit Magistrate’s Court on Thursday.
An alumni association is pressing ahead with its High Court application to set aside a damning report into the contents of two rooms at the controversial Wilgenhof men’s residence at Stellenbosch University (SU), despite a compromise reached between another organisation and SU.
A Cape Town drama teacher caused a stir when she posted a TikTok video saying a matric pupil was cheating at Golden Gates High School on Monday. However, Golden Gates High School is fictional and the teacher, Luna August, had created the drama for comic relief.
The family of six people, including two children, who were shot and killed execution-style in their Eshowe home in KwaZulu-Natal by their relative, left the Pietermaritzburg High Court frustrated and disappointed after the accused’s sentencing was postponed yet again on Wednesday.
ANC MPs and Social Development Minister Sisisi Tolashe circled the wagons around the South African Social Security Agency on Wednesday, after two students exposed alleged widespread fraud relating to the Social Relief of Distress grants.
The Western Cape High Court’s Judge Robert Henney demanded an explanation for why nobody involved in an alleged plot to attack the late Anti-Gang Unit Charl Kinnear with a hand grenade at his house was arrested when the police heard a co-accused discussing it in an office at the AGU’s Faure base.