Gauteng’s key sectors, such as health, education and infrastructure development, are expected to receive major attention when Finance MEC Lebogang Maile tables the province’s budget today. The budget comes at a time when residents are calling for improved service delivery and safety. The chairperson of the Community Safety Portfolio Committee in the provincial legislature, Bandile Masuku, says strengthening community policing …

A vehicle transporting learners is reported to have crashed in Dawn Park, Boksburg, east of Johannesburg. Details are still sketchy. Between 2018 and 2022, over 800 learners have been killed in crashes involving scholar transport vehicles. Concerns are being raised about the rising number of crashes involving scholar transport. In January this year, eleven learners were killed while on their …

The South African Police Service (SAPS) has arrested three more suspects in the case of former sergeant Rachel Kutumela in Polokwane, Limpopo. They say they plan to arrest a total of seven suspects on Tuesday. Kutumela, her sister Anna Shokane and daughter Florah Shokane are accused of killing nine people for financial gain, targeting vulnerable people for insurance pay-outs. The …

North-West businessman Suliman Carrim will face cross-examination when he returns to the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry in Pretoria this morning. Carrim’s accusation of having links to alleged crime kingpin Vusimuzi ‘Cat’ Matlala and businessman Morgan Maumela was at the centre of his testimony yesterday. Carrim says Matlala had asked him to pay Maumela R750.000. According to Carrim, the money was …

The case against nine people arrested for the murder of Tshwane University of Technology lecturer will continue on Wednesday in the Soshanguve Magistrate’s Court. Masasi Sifundo was attacked and killed allegedly by the group last month, after they accused him of raping two minors aged between eight and 12. The accused, Koketso Mlambo, Thapelo Mothemane, Solomon Maunatlala, Kholofelo Phasha, Kabelo …

The United Democratic Movement (UDM) says it has escalated its complaint against Bafana Bafana coach, Hugo Broos to Parliament. The party is accusing oversight bodies of failing to act on alleged racist and sexist remarks made by the South African football national team coach. The party says it has now written to the Speaker of the National Assembly, Thoko Didiza, …

Police have arrested more than  16 000 suspects for various crimes during a week-long nationwide crime combating operations which ended on Sunday. During the operations, police seized over 160 illegal firearms, more than 50 stolen vehicles and drugs worth over R2 million. Most of the arrests were made in Gauteng, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal. “Police seized drugs with a street value …

The first of the five trapped Ekapa Minerals miners in Kimberley, Northern Cape, has been retrieved. The men have been trapped 890m underground since a mud rush, in mid-February. WATCH | Northern Cape Premier Dr Zamani Saul has described the provisional liquidation of Ekapa Minerals as a double catastrophe. He made the remark during a prayer service for the five …

Cooperative Governance Minister Velenkosini Hlabisa says the financial crisis facing the uThukela District Municipality, in KwaZulu-Natal poses a serious risk to staff salaries being paid, and services being delivered to residents. The uThukela District Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal has cited budget constraints as the reason for its failure to provide water to residents. pic.twitter.com/c9EgheQCVA — SABC News (@SABCNews) February 20, 2025 …

Tensions flared at the Madlanga Commission as North-West businessman Suliman Carrim‘s lawyer, Kameel Premhid, clashed with the secretary over seating arrangements. The Commission has resumed after ruling against Carrim’s application to testify in camera. Carrim’s legal counsel had argued that his client had been receiving death threats. However, evidence leader Adila Hassim has argued that the alleged threats have not …