A 52-year-old man originally from Dar es Salaam in Tanzania has been arrested following an attempted house robbery, high-speed chase, and shooting incident today (Tuesday). Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) received an urgent call for assistance after suspects in a white Hyundai i20 forcefully derailed a driveway gate on Thompson Lane in Lotusville – KZN. […]
New FOUR PAWS report reveal how consumers are left in the dark Cape Town, 14 October 2025 – Global animal welfare organisation FOUR PAWS’ report investigates the efforts of over 100 fashion brands in eleven countries in addressing major animal welfare issue – live lamb cutting (LLC) within their wool supply chain. The itchy truth:
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Judge Letty Molopa-Sethosa of the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria delivered a judgment three years after reserving it. Although the matter was handed down, the judge provided no reasons for the delay in her ruling. The judgment was also missing from all the judiciary’s reserved judgments reports, due to what the Office of the Chief
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OR TAMBO – Two male suspects were nabbed in the OR Tambo District over the weekend. The second suspect was also charged for murder and two counts of attempted murder. In the first incident, a 30-year- old male suspect at Mqobiso locality, Mjika A/A in Tsolo fatally shot a 39-year-old male, and injured two other
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Eastern Cape police are investigating a case of attempted murder and public violence following fights between teenage boys from villages in Cofimvaba and Centane. These fights happen during initiation season when teenage boys participate in a traditional ceremony to mark manhood. In recent months, residents say, these fights have become more violent with the use
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An application to evict hundreds of refugees from emergency accommodation at Wingfield in Maitland and Paint City in Bellville has been set down for a court hearing on 13 April 2026. The City of Cape Town and the national departments of Home Affairs and Public Works filed a joint application at the Western Cape High
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Hundreds of Hanover Park residents marched to the homes of alleged drug dealers and gangsters on Sunday afternoon. The march was organised by PAGAD G-force. There was a heavy police presence as protesters moved from one home to the next, chanting “one gangster, one bullet” and “death to the merchants, death to the mongrels”. Video:
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The Return Nobody Should’ve Had to Make When Mandla Mandela stepped off that plane tired, handcuffed, still defiant the cameras flashed like we’d just won a World Cup. But what exactly were we celebrating? That he survived detention? That our government got him back? That we still remember what moral courage looks like? It’s wild,
Fishing families who have lived in blocks of council flats in Kalk Bay for generations say they are being forced out of the community by a massive increase in their water bills. Many survived forced removals under the Slums Act of 1934 and again under the Group Areas Act during apartheid. In July their water
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Hundreds of families in Komani, Eastern Cape, displaced by floods in 2023 are still waiting for their promised houses. They are living in dilapidated, leaking temporary accommodation with no electricity and limited water and sanitation. Meanwhile a huge housing project launched before the floods is still in the initial phase. Construction has still not started
Eastern Cape families affected by 2023 floods to wait until next year for houses Read More »