Author: staff
Deputy national police commissioner for crime detection, Lieutenant-General Shadrack Sibiya, has been asked to take a leave of absence following explosive allegations about links to criminal syndicates and interference in politically motivated murder investigations.
City Power escalated its debt recovery efforts on Friday with targeted disconnections across key areas in Johannesburg served by the Hursthill Service Delivery Centre, which covers regions that include Mayfair, Industria, Melville and Auckland Park.
There are many things we’ve learned from studying the ancient Egyptians. One especially fascinating discovery was evidence of skeletal deformities in mummies, which serves as silent markers of a tenacious bug still stalking us today: tuberculosis (TB).
The Athlone Magistrate’s Court has provisionally withdrawn the case against siblings Wanda and Sindiswa Mbele, who are accused of orchestrating a life insurance scam that allegedly led to the murders of Noem My Skollie actor David Manuel and his friend, Alfonso Fisher.
KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi publicly declared that the SAPS has been infiltrated by underworld syndicates that control key cops. He accused Police Minister Senzo Mchunu of disbanding the police’s political killings task team for ulterior motives. Tender kingpin Vusimusi ‘Cat’ Matlala is at the centre of it all.
“Normal day-to-day policing at stations and other SAPS service points continues”, despite allegations that the police minister has been behind political interference in investigations, says national police commissioner General Fannie Masemola.
A court has, for now, scotched the NFP’s efforts to haul its sole MPL in KwaZulu-Natal, Mbali Shinga, to a disciplinary hearing over her “failure” to remove herself from the parliamentary list, which would effectively mean she is firing herself as an MPL.
KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner, Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, has registered a criminal investigation against Police Minister Senzo Mchunu following claims of political interference in work carried out by the task team into political killings.
Judge President Selby Mbenenge’s attempt to lead the testimony of his sexual harassment accuser’s former friend – whose statements included claims about Andiswa Mengo’s sex life – has been dismissed by the tribunal tasked with deciding his guilt.
Amid shifting local reforms, a fragile GNU and a volatile global landscape, News24 will co-host a virtual seminar on Tuesday to delve deeper into South Africa’s possible futures and the strategic decisions needed to get us to a better, brighter, tomorrow.