Month: April 2024
News24 | Bulls’ blowout … it’s NOT the Armageddon for them (yet)
Their 33-point Dublin drubbing represented the Bulls' heaviest setback since Super Rugby 2019, writes Rob Houwing.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Cape Town music festival organiser’s culpable homicide sentencing delayed again – almost 10 years on
The case involving festival organiser David Forbes, who was found guilty of culpable homicide for killing a man at an Engen garage in Cape Town, has been postponed yet again.
Continue ReadingNews24 | ‘The suspects were plotting to execute a hit’: Nine gunmen killed in shootout with KZN police
Nine people have been killed in a gun battle with police in Mariannhill, KwaZulu-Natal.
Continue ReadingNews24 | ‘We are going to take you to your graves’: Inside the deadly Vosloorus church shooting
Moments before several gunshots rang out at a church in Vosloorus, Ekurhuleni, a brave 55-year-old woman tried to warn congregants of an impending robbery – but the woman was shot in the face and had her head smashed in by the attackers.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Darkness as usual: ‘Normal’ load shedding returns to Durban after metro repairs clear outage backlogs
Durban residents will return to normal load shedding schedules, the municipality has announced.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Tony Leon | Whom you plan to vote for is a small question that has massive implications
Often, we make our decisions on what Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky called "systematic bias" - and to get to an answer in a short time, even when the question is complex, writes Tony Leon. He reflects on how this might work when choosing a...
Continue ReadingNews24 | Corruption feeding frenzy: Fort Hare top ranks rocked by R171m graft, money laundering allegations
The graft clean-up at the University of Fort Hare has been rocked by a R171 million kickback, money-for-pals racket – allegedly orchestrated from within vice-chancellor Sakhela Buhlungu's inner circle and from the iconic institution's management suite.
Continue ReadingNews24 | ‘Underwear hanging in windows’: Parents furious after churchgoers turn school into a ‘Holiday Inn’
An unholy row has erupted between parents of pupils attending a state-of-the-art school and a church group after parishioners allegedly used 20 classrooms as a dormitory over the Easter weekend.
Continue ReadingNews24 | AKA, Tibz murder: Suspected hitmen insist State’s case is weak, ask court for bail
The alleged spotter in the AKA hit has admitted he was at Durban’s Wish restaurant on the night the rapper was murdered, but claims he was there to meet a woman.
Continue ReadingNews24 | No need for Mapisa-Nqakula to be arrested, her lawyer argues – but State stays mum
Hours before the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria cleared the way for the State to arrest Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, her lawyer told the prosecutions boss that she should be summonsed to appear in court "without the need for arrest or bail".
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