Two new cholera deaths reported in the past week
Health Minister Joe Phaahla said there has been two new cholera deaths recorded in the past seven days.
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.
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.
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