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State plans to intercept your WhatsApp conversations
The office of the Inspector-General of Intelligence (IGI) has asked the police minister to plead with the cabinet to change legislation to allow spooks...
Sudanese singer Wad Abbo calls for peace, end of conflict from...
On a starry night in Nairobi earlier this month, Sudanese singer Mohamed Adam Abbo, known by his artist’s name Wad Abbo, stood beneath the...
The long march to our better selves
There are moments in life that leave you deeply reflective, not because of what was said, but because of the weight of history and...
Ex-police officer sentenced to five years for possession of unlicensed firearms
The Mokopane Regional Court on Friday sentenced former Gauteng police sergeant Ntshavheni Ndonyane (44) to five years of direct imprisonment for possession of unlicensed...
MEC initiates interactive Tuesdays to boost delivery
In a direct response to widespread community frustrations over the province’s extensive network of gravel roads, the Limpopo Department of Public Works, Roads and...
In the Sunday World today
The office of the Inspector-General of Intelligence (IGI) has asked the police minister to plead with the cabinet to change legislation to allow spooks...
Zulu king, ATM leader find marital bliss
Zulu king Misuzulu KaZwelithini will tie the knot today with his wife Nomzamo Myeni at KwaKhangela Royal Palace in Nongoma, northern KwaZulu-Natal, while ATM...
Four suspects fatally shot in Gauteng as alert cops crush CIT...
It was a case of robbers versus cops when Gauteng police gunned down four suspected cash-in-transit robbers along the R25 towards Bronkhorstspruit within the...
Zambian women architects of own spaces at male-dominated decision tables
Mwangala Lethbridge often pictures Zambia’s leadership spaces, cabinet rooms, boardrooms, and corporate meetings, as a table of ten seats, nine taken by men.
The image,...
Suppression of Growth Mindsets by Debilitating and Intractable Poverty: South Africa
1 Background
The poverty trap is defined as a societal and economic condition in which people struggle to escape poverty and financial insecurity. Liberation from...
SAMRO musical chairs ring out hollow note as artists take to...
The standoff between local artists and the Southern African Music Rights Organisation (SAMRO) is escalating, as a coalition of musicians under the banner Artists...
Madlanga Commission at a glance: Cops and robbers, blue lights, the...
Suspended deputy national commissioner of police Lt-Gen Shadrack Sibiya's alleged links to Katiso "KT" Molefe and convicted criminal Stuart James Scharnick were laid bare...
King Misuzulu’s dramatic wedding to new bride kicks off without key...
After two weeks of suspense and conflicting statements from the Zulu royal family, King Misuzulu KaZwelithini on Friday concluded the first part of his...
Defence slams state over trial ambush in Senzo Meyiwa murder case
Tensions ran high in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial on Friday as defence lawyers united in rejecting the state’s attempt to cross-examine the first...
Reverend Mlombi’s family appeals for intervention amid alleged assault
The family of reality star Reverend Mawuzole Mlombi has appealed for help, alleging that he has been subjected to physical abuse by his wife,...
‘Former Ekurhuleni city manager threatened me with hitmen’
Suspended chief of police Isaac Mapiyeye of the Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department (EMPD) told the Madlanga commission that the former city manager, Imogen Mashazi,...
Eastern Cape man nabbed, released on warning for R600K RAF fraud
An Eastern Cape man has been arrested by the Hawks’ unit in East London for submitting a fraudulent Road Accident Fund (RAF) claim that...
Two women accused of sexually assaulting 11-year-old boy appear in court
Two women accused of sexually violating an 11-year-old boy appeared before the East London Magistrate’s Court on Thursday.
The accused—Ziphozethu Faltein and Sisipho Tikane—were arrested...
‘Cat Matlala’s security company provided security at City of Ekurhuleni 2022...
Suspended Chief of Police of the Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department (EMPD) Isaac Mapiyeye has told the Madlanga Commission that CAT VIP Protection (Pty) Ltd,...
Ex-constable sentenced for using fake matric certificate to Join SAPS in...
The Provincial Anti-Corruption Unit has secured the conviction and sentencing of a 43-year-old police constable, Eric Nyadzani Ravhura, who was found guilty of fraud...
Former Bosasa boss Angelo Agrizzi pleads guilty in graft case, sentenced...
The Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (IDAC) has reached a plea and sentence agreement with Angelo Agrizzi, the former chief operations officer of Bosasa.
On Thursday,...
Metro police chief denies signing contract with Cat Matlala security firm
Suspended chief of police of the Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department (EMPD) Isaac Mapiyeye has told the Madlanga Commission that he did not sign the...
eThekwini municipality ordered to pay damages for man who fell into...
The KwaZulu-Natal High Court sitting in Pietermaritzburg has ordered the eThekwini municipality to compensate a resident in full after he suffered injuries from falling...
Court slashes sentence of men who stole meat in July 2021...
Three KwaZulu-Natal men convicted for stealing meat worth R80,000 during the July 2021 unrest have had their sentences slashed in half, after the Pietermaritzburg...
Paul Mashatile’s VIP protection unit officers have a case to answer...
Magistrate Abdul Khan decided on Thursday in the Randburg Magistrate's Court that the eight officers assigned to Deputy President Paul Mashatile's VIP Protection Unit...
Umngeni mayor wants Lesotho to help address involvement of migrants in...
The DA-run Umngeni local municipality, which is based in Howick in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, claims that it has formally contacted the Kingdom of Lesotho's...
South Africa has enough food to feed everyone, but millions still...
With World Food Day gone and forgotten, one South African organisation has vowed to keep working to ensure citizens help one another fight hunger.
Food-rescue...
‘Top police officers working with criminal cartels’, Dumisani Khumalo tells commission
The national head of crime intelligence of the South African Police Service (SAPS) Lt-Gen Dumisani Khumalo told the Madlanga Commission that suspended deputy national...
Teen ‘friend’ in dock for stabbing Mbombela girl to death
Two teenage boys have made a brief appearance at the Nelspruit Magistrate’s Court in Mpumalanga following their swift arrest after the gruesome killing of...
Breaking News: MK Party suspends Dr John Hlophe, Colleen Makhubele is...
The Umkhonto Wesizwe Party (MKP) has suspended Dr John Hlophe as its parliamentary leader and first deputy president to former President Jacob Zuma.
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