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Parliament announced through a poster on Monday night that Joemat-Pettersson had died.
The woman murdered outside Wynberg Magistrate's Court on 25 May faced a murder charge herself and was about to become a State witness when she was killed. Rhoode, the son of President Cyril Ramaphosa's protection unit head Wally Rhoode, was found dead in May after he went missing. Four suspects have been arrested in connection with the murder of a woman who was killed outside of Wynberg Magistrate's Court last week, police said on Friday.Video footage of the incident showed a man running up to the victim, aiming a gun at her and firing.Health Minister Joe Phaahla has announced Professor Taole Mokoena as the new health ombud. He began his seven-year term on Thursday. The announcement comes two days after Professor Malegapuru Makgoba formally completed his term.
John Block, who is currently serving a 15-year sentence for corruption committed when he was an MEC in Northern Cape, has been linked to a separate fraud case. The Department of International Relations and Cooperation on Monday gazetted a notice stating that those attending the BRICS summit will be afforded diplomatic immunity.
Dirco spokesperson Clayson Monyela said the notice was"routine"."It is normal; it's routine. It's nothing special. It has nothing to do with the Russian President. This is the gazette of immunities we gazette each time we host an international conference or summit."Arrest made for murder of Cape Town SPCA veterinarian
Gary van Niekerk of the Northern Alliance party has been elected as the new mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality. The death toll following a cholera outbreak in Hammanskraal has risen to 21, with a spike in total confirmed cases also reported. The Hawks have confirmed the arrest of a fugitive, wanted in connection with the 1994 Rwandan genocide, in Paarl in the Western Cape.
Two armed robbery suspects were shot dead during a shootout with police in Newlands East, Durban, on Wednesday morning after a courier vehicle was robbed in Paddock. It was revealed at the weekend that the book authored by political commentator Prince Mashele was funded by Mashaba. An independent investigation panel was constituted last year following allegations that Ngonyama had supplied false reasons to the UCT senate for the early departure of Professor Lis Lange, who was deputy vice-chancellor for learning and teaching.
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.
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