In a targeted early-morning operation, South African Police Service (SAPS) units, acting on intelligence, swooped on an industrial yard in Alrode, south of Johannesburg, arresting two foreign nationals in the process of offloading a consignment of high-value truck tyres from a vehicle reported hijacked just hours earlier. The bust has thrown a spotlight on the…
In a case emblematic of the profound challenges facing South Africa’s fight against corruption, the high-profile trial of two senior officers from the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (the Hawks) has been postponed yet again, prolonging a legal saga that has placed the elite anti-corruption unit itself under intense scrutiny. Captain Virginia Kupa and Brigadier…
South Africa stands on the precipice of a pivotal appointment that will define the next chapter in its fight against corruption and the restoration of the rule of law. The process to select the next National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) has entered its most critical phase, with President Cyril Ramaphosa’s advisory panel set to begin live-streamed…
The City of Tshwane has announced the temporary closure of two public swimming pools due to an ongoing shortage of chlorine gas, a vital chemical used to maintain safe water quality. According to a media alert issued on Monday, the shortage has affected operations at several municipal pools. Since the start of the swimming and…
In a verdict that underscores the severe human and financial toll of sophisticated financial crime, the Bloemfontein High Court has sentenced Sello Cedric Pinkoane (52) to an effective 14 years’ direct imprisonment for orchestrating a multi-million rand fraud that systematically stripped an elderly businesswoman of her life’s savings. Pinkoane was convicted on multiple counts of fraud, uttering…
In a dramatic and emotionally charged turn in one of South Africa’s most sensational criminal cases, Zolile Sekeleni, the father of celebrity aesthetician Dr. Nandipha Magudumana, delivered a courtroom defence that sought to radically reframe his daughter’s role. Testifying in the Bloemfontein Magistrate’s Court amidst ongoing litigation surrounding the audacious May 2022 prison escape of…
In his most direct and politically charged address on national identity and social cohesion to date, President Cyril Ramaphosa used the platform of the ANC’s National General Council at the Birchwood Hotel on Monday, 8 December 2025, to launch a robust counter-offensive against what he termed “manufactured and dangerous myths” of the systematic persecution of…
On Tuesday, 9 December 2025, South Africa will confront the persistent, hidden epidemic within its globally acclaimed HIV treatment programme with the official launch of the HIV Stigma Index 2.0 National Report. This groundbreaking study, one of the most comprehensive of its kind globally, captures the lived realities of over 5,000 people living with HIV (PLHIV) across the…
In a significant escalation of the political and legal battle over one of South Africa’s most dysfunctional municipalities, the Democratic Alliance (DA) in the Free State has formally and unequivocally endorsed a high-stakes court application seeking to carve up the embattled Maluti-a-Phofung (MaP) Local Municipality. The move signals a strategic shift from political criticism to active…
A terrifying new crime trend is sweeping through Limpopo, turning the trusted community savings system of stokvels into a life-threatening risk for members. This alarming reality was violently underscored in the early hours of Saturday, 6 December 2025, when two armed men forced their way into the home of a 55-year-old woman in Nkowankowa and made off…
