Author name: Scott Balson

In a major operation against illicit trade, the Hawks’ Durban Serious Commercial Crime Investigation unit uncovered counterfeit goods valued at nearly R59 million during a raid on a freight container depot on Friday, 24 October 2025. The operation was launched after border police intercepted and detained a suspicious container, prompting the Hawks to conduct a […]

The Matlala Police have opened an investigation into the mysterious death of an unidentified man whose body was discovered on the side of a public road in Kordon Village on Tuesday morning. According to police reports, the grim discovery was made on October 28, 2025, at approximately 05:00 along the D19 public road. Police were

In a landmark decision for public health, South Africa has become the first African nation and only the third country in the world to register a new HIV prevention jab that requires just two injections per year. The medicine, Lenacapavir, has been hailed as a potential tool to end the country’s HIV/Aids epidemic within 14

The family of a prominent anti-crime activist, murdered two years ago in uMhlabuyalingana, has voiced its profound frustration and fear over the protracted delays in his murder case, alleging deliberate stalling and an incomplete investigation. Judah Mthethwa, a household name in northern KwaZulu-Natal and the chairperson of the Alingan Society Against Crime, was gunned down

A multi-million rand road construction project critical to the Marquard and Clocolan area has been officially terminated by the Free State Department of Roads, leaving the project in limbo and the local community frustrated. The R274 million project, aimed at upgrading the R708 road between Marquard and Clocolan, was halted due to the appointed contractor’s

As South Africa prepares to host the G20 Leaders’ Summit in November 2025, emerging farmers in Limpopo are calling for the global community to move beyond dialogue and deliver tangible support to small-scale agriculture, which they say is critically underfunded and overlooked. Farmers from areas like Grobblersdal and Senwabarwana report that a lack of support

A community is in mourning and demanding accountability outside the Homii residential apartment building in Durban, where seven-year-old twins fell four floors down a malfunctioning lift shaft earlier this month, resulting in one death and the other in a coma. The incident, which occurred in October 2025, involved twins Aphelele and Aphile Dlamini. Aphelele was

The High Court in Johannesburg has denied controversial businessman Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala’s application for bail, upholding a lower court’s ruling that he is a flight risk and a danger to society. The decision comes after Matlala’s defense team challenged a September ruling from the Alexandra Magistrate’s Court, arguing that the court had erred in its

In a unique confluence of global diplomacy and wilderness, delegates from G20 member nations gathered yesterday at the Nombolo Mdhluli Conference Centre in Skukuza within South Africa’s Kruger National Park for a pivotal session of the G20 Anti-Corruption Working Group. The meeting, a precursor to a ministerial-level discussion later this week, aims to strengthen international

Police have opened an inquest docket after the drowning of seven-year-old Likhanye Cwethu in a dam in Marikana informal settlement, Philippi East, on Thursday afternoon. Community leader Nosi Nkuhlu said several children had drowned in the area before. “There are no preventable measures, like putting a fence around the dam. These dams are worrying because