Month: September 2024
News24 | Crime scene crisis as tender blunder leaves cops buying their own fingerprint powder
The SAPS is running dangerously low on materials crucial to gathering fingerprint evidence at crime scenes. Multiple sources say desperate police officials have resorted to purchasing fingerprint powders at their own expense.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Gauteng legislature fires secretary, turns blind eye to corruption, fraud
The Gauteng legislature speaker allegedly conspired with ANC office bearers to fire the secretary who had initiated disciplinary process against employees accused of defrauding the legislature.
Continue ReadingNews24 | King Misuzulu fears his safety’s compromised by protection officer, sends SOS to Mchunu
AmaZulu King Misuzulu KaZwelithini has requested that a member of the Presidential Protection Services assigned to him be withdrawn from his post, citing security concerns.
Continue ReadingNews24 | ‘People are dying in this place’: Roodepoort community says area is a hotspot for crime, shootings
Leratong Village residents in Roodepoort live in fear as their once peaceful community is now subjected to daily shootings and murders.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Lions prop Ntlabakanye hoping try scoring lightning strikes in Currie Cup final, too
Due to Asenathi Ntlabakanye, Morne Brandon and Trevor Nyakane - three of the front-rowers in the Currie Cup final - upstaging the backs last week, the scrum is in danger of playing second fiddle.
Continue ReadingNews24 | We apologise for what she did, says sister of Durban woman found guilty of killing husband
"We apologise for what she did; we were also shocked," says the sister of Faith Nongcebo Ntombela, who had her police officer husband murdered after falling in love with a prisoner, has told the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Durban.
Continue ReadingNews24 | City Power takes revenue collection drive to Lenasia, disconnects defaulting customers from grid
A medical centre, sweet factory, wholesale dealer and a scrapyard were among the establishments disconnected from the electricity grid in Johannesburg because of unpaid bills.
Continue ReadingNews24 | ‘We counted boxes of R1.5 million cash’: Police furniture tender bribe laid bare in Eastern Cape court
A R1.5 million cash bribe to halt a probe into a police tender was allegedly delivered in five boxes to the East London CBD to be picked by undercover detectives in April 2022.
Continue ReadingNews24 | KZN braces for severe weather: Level 6 snow warning issued with residents urged to stay indoors
Residents in KwaZulu-Natal have been warned to brace themselves for severe weather following a Level 6 disruptive snow warning to many parts of the province.
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