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March 21, 2026 Jana SmitHow would you like to share the article?(Archive photo for illustration)An Eastern Cape court judge and police sergeant who is already serving six years in prison after beating a man to death in 2015 will have to spend another ten years in prison because he killed a woman and seriously injured another two years ago.Manelisi William Nosasa (35), who works at the Tsolo Magistrate’s Court, was driving a police car without permission on 16 June 2024 when he hit two women. One woman died at the scene and the other was seriously injured. Nosasa was sentenced…
On Thursday, the 19th, the High Court of Pietermaritzburg sentenced Andile Wonderboy Ngcobo, Andile Sabelo Shezi and Mongezi Nyathi to 14 years in prison and 121 years in prison. This follows that the three were found guilty of exterminating the Khumalo family in Plessislaer between October 2021 and October 2022. The attack of the three began when they robbed a man of his gun in Pietermaritzburg on 3 October 2021. Two weeks later three Khumalo brothers were shot at Mbali Unit J in Plessislaer. Two of the brothers died at the scene and one survived. Detectives from the Provincial Serious…
(Photo: SUMMER) Fewer municipalities will not only be better for South Africa, but will also prevent a democratic collapse. Prof. Joseph Sekhampu, attached to the business school of the North-West University, says the South African municipal landscape is weathering and collapsing in a single moment of crisis. Sekhampu says it is as if local government systems operate as if the Constitution simply requires their existence, without considering their viability. He describes this system as one that survives on “fiscal bailouts” from the national government while basic services such as water and electricity networks collapse completely. According to Sekhampu, the warnings…
NewsFeedAl Jazeera’s Nicolas Haque recorded his journey on the long road from Amman, Jordan to Baghdad, Iraq as he deploys to cover the US-Israeli war on Iran. Along the 900km drive he found tight security and people largely unfazed by the conflict.Published On 21 Mar 202621 Mar 2026Click here to share on social mediashare2SharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo
She is crying out for answers from the relatives of the accused, the family of a woman from Mabaleni, Mahlongwa, Mkhomazi, who is said to have been brutally murdered by the father of the children in the early hours of Sunday.Ms Zinhle Khomo (35) who was known as Neneh, died in this incident which is said to have happened at the suspect’s house in Gqolweni.According to her sister, Ms. Ngane Khomo, the family was called to the incident by a neighbor, who knows where the incident took place.He said they received a call from a neighbor, but there was no…
The accused earlier in court (August 2023) (Photo: Anja van der Merwe/Maroela Media) The long-awaited criminal trial against eight members of deputy pres. Paul Mashatile’s presidential protection unit – the so-called “blue light mafia” – will continue in the Randburg Magistrate’s Court next week. This follows after the court found the accused’s art. 174 application to dismiss. Although certain charges against some of the accused have been dropped, the eight men still have to answer to the most serious allegations against them. These include charges of malicious damage to property as well as assault with intent to do grievous bodily…
FISA is that the case of the murder of a police officer from Cato Manor, Mayville, his family, which has been in court for the last time, has been adjourned for the last time by the Durban Magistrate’s Court.He said this outside the court yesterday following the appearance of the four accused of stabbing, killing Sergeant Mondli Gabisa (39) on November 8 last year. Gabisa’s body was said to have been found lying outside the Mayville flats by the police, it was revealed that he was stabbed and killed, after an argument with the suspects, and his service gun was…
Khathutshelo (Khathu) Rasilingwane is the DA’s mayoral candidate for the City of Ekurhuleni. (Photo: Tania Heyns/Maroela Media) Khathutshelo (Khathu) Rasilingwane knows what it feels like to live in a community that the government has forgotten about. Rasilingwane grew up from the age of ten in the Moriting informal settlement in Tembisa on the East Rand. And today, at 36, she is the DA’s mayoral candidate for the City of Ekurhuleni. “I know what it means to live without basic services. I know the pain and frustration of seeing promises not kept. That is why I stand here today,” Rasilingwane said…
THE MINISTER of the Department of Cooperative Governance and Indigenous Affairs in KwaZulu-Natal, Reverend Thulasizwe Buthelezi, has addressed the imperfection of history with two models of ANC leaders recently unveiled in Durban. Buthelezi said this while delivering his speech at the awarding ceremony for municipalities that have done well in KwaZulu-Natal, at the Durban International Convention Center (ICC) on Friday. Buthelezi said that these examples are not complete without the late Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi, who was the founder of the IFP and also the Prime Minister of the Zulu nation.He then proposed that Dheku, which built these models that caused…
Archive photo: Reint Dykema South Africa has experienced no load shedding for 308 days in a row. Eskom says that in the past financial year, from April 2025 to Thursday this week, only 26 hours of load shedding were recorded. Average unplanned outages decreased by 17%. The electricity availability factor remains consistently above 65%. Between 1 April 2025 and 19 March 2026, Eskom generated 1 077.55 gigawatt-hours (GWh) from plants, at a diesel cost of R6.395 billion, significantly less than the 2 608.82 GWh generated in the same period last year (1 April 2024 to 19 March 2025) at a…