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LOCAL Cape Town police have arrested three suspects in connection with the shooting of five people in Mandela Park, Khayelitsha, at the weekend. Police attended to a shooting incident in the early hours of Saturday morning where they found five victims with gunshot wounds. Two of the victims died. The police’s Captain FC Van Wyk says the three suspects will be charged with two counts of murder and three of […]

LOCAL Eskom has announced that Stage 2 load shedding will be implemented from 17h00 today until 05h00 on Wednesday. This is due to continued shortage of generation capacity. The power utility warns that the constrained supply situation will persist throughout the week, with the possibility that more loadshedding is likely to be implemented should the generation capacity deteriorate further. VOC

LOCAL Cases involving people who have been implicated in State Capture will be prioritised over the next 12 months, according to Director of Public Prosecutions Shamila Batohi. Speaking during the annual Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert Honourary Lecture,  Batohi says the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) will be focussing on prosecuting cases of grand corruption during this period. She was speaking online during the lecture which was hosted by Stellenbosch University. The […]

LOCAL The South African Coloured Corps (SACC) Forum is heading to the High Court in Cape Town on Tuesday due to a lack of legal benefits for its former military veterans. The SACC Forum, which was established in 2020, says its engagements with the Military Veterans Department have been frustrating. SACC represents former soldiers of the South African Cape Corps who participated, among others, in the Second World War. The […]

LOCAL Heavy rains have continued across parts of KwaZulu-Natal. This has prompted the provincial Education Department to advise schools and parents to use their discretion on whether to send children to school or allow them to stay at home. Department spokesperson Muzi Mahlambi, “Safety alert by the Department of Education in KwaZulu-Natal, attention to all school principals and School Governing Bodies due to inclement weather conditions the Department of Education in […]