King burnt minutes of meeting
AbaThembu King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo burnt documents containing the minutes of a meeting which debated who his successor should be. ||| Cape Town - AbaThembu King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo burnt...
View ArticleGirl, 7, the sole survivor of house fire
Shirdika Ramnarain did not say a final goodbye to her parents and sister at their funeral as she is recovering in hospital after a fire gutted her family home. ||| Durban - Shirdika Ramnarain did not...
View ArticleDrama at The Playhouse
A battle is looming at The Playhouse Company with some of the artists who want to perform there accusing its chief executive of mismanagement and corruption. ||| Durban - The Playhouse Company chief...
View ArticleStalked by a sausage-loving stork
Helping the bird escape a tangle indebted it to her for life, writes Clinton Moodley. ||| Durban - Every morning when Winklespruit resident Carol Lane drinks her coffee, she gets a warm welcome from a...
View ArticleNxasana charges part of NPA witchhunt - DA
Former NDPP head Mxolisi Nxasana has reportedly been charged with the harassment of an employee of the NPA. ||| Cape Town - The recent spate of charges brought by the National Prosecuting Authority...
View ArticleMTN washes its hands of SIM scam
Gail Jacklin is angry after her service provider MTN denies culpability in online identity fraud and the theft of R300 000. ||| Cape Town - Hacked and hacked-off is how you might describe Cape Town...
View ArticleFace of the fees revolution unmasked
Mantombi Makhubele speaks to Nompendulo Mkhatshwa who gained attention as the militant Wits student at the helm of the #FeesMustFall campaign. ||| Johannesburg - She gained public attention as the...
View ArticleShaik’s Facebook post ‘not about Zuma’
Schabir Shaik says his Facebook post about “a friend”, who he cautioned to refrain from luxury life, was not a message to President Zuma. ||| Durban - Convicted fraudster Schabir Shaik says his lengthy...
View ArticleNow Breytenbach faces tender charges
DA MP and ex NPA prosecutor Glynnis Breytenbach faces arrest again - this time for charges relating to the rigging of tender contracts. ||| Johannesburg - Glynnis Breytenbach faces arrest again - this...
View ArticleSeiphemo passenger ‘arrested for hijacking’
One of the two passengers who were in Rapulana Seiphemo's Audi A4 when it crashed has been charged with hijacking. ||| Johannesburg - One of the two passengers who were in Rapulana Seiphemo’s Audi A4...
View Article#ZephanyNurse trial begins
After 19 long years, the truth about Zephany Nurse’s kidnapping might finally be revealed. ||| Cape Town - After 19 long years, the truth about Zephany Nurse’s kidnapping might finally be revealed....
View ArticleAnother weekend of carnage on SA roads
At least 19 people reported dead in Gauteng and seven in the Western Cape - six pedestrians and a driver. ||| Johannesburg - It was another weekend of carnage on South Africa’s roads, with at least 19...
View ArticleHow to stay out of trouble in uMngeni
New municipal traffic and crime prevention by-laws - all 53 pages of them - tell you exactly what you can and can't do. ||| Pietermaritzburg - Don’t leave your bicycle lying in the street.Don’t walk or...
View ArticleKrecjir: sentencing proceedings to begin
All eyes will be on the South Gauteng High Court, where sentencing proceedings will begin for Radovan Krejcir and five others. ||| Johannesburg - All eyes will be on the South Gauteng High Court on...
View ArticleFirefighter sees red over race attack
A KZN firefighter has taken to social media to vent about racial comments made against him by a woman on Facebook. ||| Cape Town - A firefighter from Pietermaritzburg, Evershan Pillay, has taken to...
View ArticleCop’s violent outbursts scares colleagues
Questions are being raised about the head of the Central Firearm Registry’s fitness to hold office. ||| Johannesburg - Questions are being raised about the head of the Central Firearm Registry’s...
View ArticleOne social worker for 30 000 kids
On the gang-ridden Cape Flats, the ratio of social workers and psychologists is 1:30 000 children who may need trauma counselling. ||| Cape Town - In the face of gang violence on the Cape Flats, the...
View ArticleKZN lightning strikes kill 10 in one week
Ten people have died as a result of lightning strikes in separate incidents across KwaZulu-Natal in just one week. ||| Durban - An electric storm in KwaZulu-Natal killed three people at the weekend,...
View ArticleFamily escape hail of bullets
A Chatsworth family are living in fear after their home was raked by gunfire at the weekend. ||| Durban - A Chatsworth family are living in fear after their home was raked by gunfire at the weekend....
View Article‘Human error’ leaves woman in pain
A Joburg woman is unable to have emergency gynaecological surgery, and has lost her Discovery medical aid membership - because of an ommission on her application. ||| Johannesburg - An alleged human...
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