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The Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) has welcomed the 20-year sentence imposed on 30-year-old Constable Courtney Madella for the murder of her partner last year. The South Gauteng High Court sentenced Madella to 15 years for murder and 5 years for defeating the ends of justice. Therefore, she will serve an effective 20 years in […]

About 110 workers at the CHEP plant in Jet Park, Boksburg, went on strike on Thursday, after two months of negotiations reached deadlock. CHEP, part of the Sydney-based Brambles group, supplies pallets to companies transporting goods in South Africa. Employees are demanding permanent employee status, a wage increase of R2,500 a month, study assistance, a

Schooling was disrupted in Thabo Mofutsanaya District Municipality, Free State, when hundreds of South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU) members took to the streets on Thursday. SADTU is demanding that Lindiwe Mabaso, the district director, resign, saying their relationship has broken down irreparably. They say a litany of grievances raised in 2022 have not been

The Cape Town City Council has approved the sale of the “Fruit and Veg” site in the city centre for social housing. This comes eight years after municipal land, between Kent and Bloemhof Streets on the border of District Six, was first earmarked for affordable housing. The city council gave in-principle approval for the land

    Barney Pityana, chairperson of the National Lotteries Commission, has tendered his resignation with two years of his five-year tenure remaining. Illustration: Lisa Nelson Barney Pityana has tendered his resignation to Minister Parks Tau. His reason for leaving early is unclear. His appointment in 2022 was marked by political and legal battles for two

An 18-year-old male was robbed by four (4) suspects who were fleeing the scene of a business robbery in Waterloo – KZN this afternoon (Thursday). Two (2) of the suspects were armed with firearms. According to the victim, the men approached and held him at gunpoint. They pistol whipped him before depriving him of his

The police in , under Sekhukhune District, have arrested a 31-year-old scholar transport driver following a horrific accident that occurred on Wednesday, 20 August 2025, at about 15:20 along the R555 road next to Marikana Village in Roossenekal. Police received a complaint about a motor vehicle accident, and upon arrival at the scene, they found

While conducting crime prevention duties around Vereeniging, members of the Gauteng Traffic Police and Gauteng Traffic Wardens STT (Southern Corridor) spotted a suspicious vehicle with three occupants. The vehicle was stopped and searched, and the driver was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol. In a separate incident, officers noticed a vehicle being driven

Protesters continued to block Swartklip Road in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, with burning tyres on Friday. The protests started on Wednesday after Eskom and law enforcement officials removed illegal electricity connections from a substation at Area L sewage pump station in New Monwabisi Park, Khayelitsha. Community leader Donavan Koopman said cars and shacks were broken into

The Gauteng Education Department has reaffirmed its policy that it will provide state-funded scholar transport only outside of designated school feeder zones under “exceptional circumstances.” This declaration comes in response to a sit-in protest staged by frustrated parents from Holy Trinity Secondary School at the Tshwane West Education District offices. The parents are demanding the