BREAKING | Gauteng health confirms cholera outbreak in Hammanskraal, as death toll rises to 10
The Gauteng Health Department has confirmed the death of ten people, including a three-year-old from a cholera outbreak in Hammanskraal, Tshwane.
At least six people died in a crash between two buses on the N2 between Mossel Bay and Voorbaai on Saturday morning. They were accused of hosting sex parties fuelled by alcohol, instead of campaigning during a hotly contested by-election in the Witzenberg municipality last year.Buildings were torched and cars were set alight overnight at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology’s Bellville campus, resulting in the institution closing all of its campuses indefinitely.
The 14-year-old was declared dead on the scene, said IPSS Medical Rescue."Fortunately, the second boy sustained no injuries during this horrific incident.- Cebelihle BhenguA training officer for the Cape Amalgamated Taxi Association has been shot dead while chairing a meeting at the organisation's Wynberg office.
They received the release order late on Monday night. Two others who were with the group did not fly to Cape Town and went elsewhere.The National Prosecuting Authority's Investigating Directorate said on Thursday that it had decided to appeal the R24.9-million Nulane Investments fraud and money laundering judgment. Last month, the first state capture trial ended in the discharge of the accused in the Free State High Court in Bloemfontein.
The SCA on Tuesday dismissed the appeal applications lodged by Magshule, Sodi and two of their co-accused on the basis that they had “no reasonable prospects of success…and there is no compelling reason why an appeal should be heard”. A group of 22 South Africans are stranded in Egypt after leaving war-torn Sudan by boat. They had arrived for a project last year and the boat was chartered by the company which employed them, said Gift of the Givers' Dr Imtiaz Sooliman.
Tshiamo Rabanye, 6, and Mduduzi Nqobizitha Zulu, 5, disappeared last week while playing in the street.The poet Duma Ndlovu's nomination to receive the National Order award has been withdrawn, the Presidency said on Sunday. Earlier this week, the ANC Veterans' League called on the Presidency to revoke Ndlovu's nomination, adding that it had written to an official in the Presidency.Police Minister Bheki Cele has confirmed that a man believed to be linked to the killing of 10 family members in Imbali township in Pietermaritzburg was killed during a shootout with the police on Friday.
Senior leaders, including Msunduzi Municipality Mayor, Mzimkhulu Thebolla, are en route to the scene.The bodies of two children, aged five and six, who were reported missing on Wednesday, were found on Thursday in Soweto. The committee would investigate the facts underlying the motion, including allegations of nepotism and a possible breach of rules in relation to De Villiers’ discretionary placements of family members at the university.The Presidency announced on Monday that President Cyril Ramaphosa signed the Electoral Amendment Bill. The controversial bill would make it possible for independent candidates to stand in provincial and national elections and flows from a Constitutional Court order.
The convocation is a statutory body made up of all graduates, full-time and retired academic staff, and diplomates.BREAKING | Stellenbosch University convocation calls on vice-chancellor to resign before council meeting Police have arrested seven suspects in connection with the murder of retired journalist Jeremy Gordin in March.Police spokesperson Colonel Dimakatso Nevhuhulwi said the group was expected to appear in the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court soon on charges of murder, house robbery, possession of a suspected stolen property, and possession of an unlicenced firearm.
National police spokesperson Brigadier Athlenda Mathe said they would also face three charges in connection with the attempted murder of Vice-Chancellor Sakhela Buhlungu and other senior officials, as well as charges of corruption at Fort Hare. The road is closed in both directions to allow for rescue vehicles and ambulances. Motorists should use the R103 instead.Two people have been arrested in connection with the widely publicised escape of Facebook rapist Thabo Bester. They are a 39-year-old former G4S employee and a 65-year-old man from Port Edward in KwaZulu-Natal.
Lamola said the convicted murderer was arrested together with his 'accomplice', socialite-doctor Nandipha Magudumana and a Mozambican national. - South African authorities were shocked by the decision. The prosecuting authority said all technical processes had been complied with and all boxes had been ticked.Key underworld figure, Nafiz Modack was charged with another murder and attempted murder, the Blue Downs Regional Court heard on Thursday.
"These suspects are believed to be behind a spate of cash in transit heists in Gauteng and surrounding areas," she said. *Editor's Note: A ninth person has since died. This post has been updated to reflect the new death toll number.Seven alleged online scammers are expected to appear in the Soshanguve Magistrate's Court in connection with a number of robberies linked to online adverts for vehicles and goods.
Mufamadi, a former employee at a mining and metals company, is accused of altering suppliers' banking details to hers, allowing for payments to end up in her bank account between May 2017 and October 2021.
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