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Steenkamp family ‘accepts’ parole of Oscar Pistorius, says family spokesperson

World-renowned Paralympian Oscar Pistorius was released on parole on Friday after serving just under a decade behind bars for the murder of his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013. “The Department of Correctional Services [DCS] is able to confirm that Oscar Pistorius is a parolee, effectively from 5 January 2024. He was admitted into the system of Community Corrections and is now at home,” stated the DCS in a statement […]

10 January 2024

News

Hanover Park CPF calls on religious clergy to be unified to assist against crime

By Daanyaal Matthews The Hanover Park community has still not recovered after the killings of Umar Majiet and Moegamat Tawfeeq Cummings. The pair were two local hufaath who were gunned down in the area last week. While the passing of these community members made headlines throughout the Mother City, it is one of the many deaths that occur on an almost habitual basis throughout the Cape Flats especially in the […]

13 September 2023

Local

R1 million bounty offered to find City official killers

The City of Cape Town has now increased its reward to a whopping R1 million from R100 000 for information leading to the conviction of the killers of a City official, who was fatally wounded in a shooting incident at a housing site in Delft last month. “We urge those with information to come forward so that we can see justice done for the family of Ms Wendy Kloppers. We […]

2 March 2023

International

2 Palestinians killed in Israeli raid in West Bank

Two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli military raid in the West Bank city of Jenin on Saturday, according to the Health Ministry, Anadolu reports. A ministry statement said 11 other Palestinians were injured in the raid in the Jenin refugee camp, including three seriously. According to local residents, clashes erupted in the camp when Israeli forces pushed deep into the area. The official Palestine TV said Israeli forces raided the house […]

9 October 2022

Local

Mabuza calls for establishment of a task team to probe killings of traditional leaders

Deputy President David Mabuza has called for the establishment of a task team to probe the killings of traditional leaders across the country. Mabuza says the recent spate of murders of Izinduna and Amakhosi should be a cause for concern. He was addressing a gathering of traditional leaders in Kwa Zulu-Natal. The killing of Amakhosi and Izinduna came into sharp focus. More than 30 traditional leaders have been gunned down in […]

8 October 2022

International

UN’s Guterres ‘shocked by killing, injuring of Palestinian children by Israel’

The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said he was "shocked by the killing and injuring of Palestinian children by Israeli forces in airstrikes on densely populated areas, through the use of live ammunition and at the continued lack of accountability for these violations." In its annual "Children and Armed Conflict" report, the UN said that Israeli occupation forces killed 78 Palestinian children, maimed another 982 and detained 637 in 2021. […]

13 July 2022

Local

Local MJC shares condolences after Moulana killed in Kimberley

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22 June 2022

International

EU slams Israel’s killing of Palestinian woman in Bethlehem

The European Union yesterday expressed its shock after Israeli occupation forces shot dead a Palestinian woman near the occupied city of Bethlehem. The EU said in a statement that it was "horrified" by Israeli act, sending it's "deepest condolences" to the deceased's family. "Such excessive use of lethal force against an unarmed civilian is unacceptable," the union stressed, calling for a "swift investigation" into the killing, while "bringing the perpetrators […]

11 April 2022

Local

Lindani Myeni’s widow Lindsay thanks government, wants citizenship to settle in SA

The wife of the late Lindani Myeni, Lindsay, has expressed gratitude to the SA government for its support and giving her husband's name justice. Lindani, a former rugby player from KZN, was shot dead by Hawaii police in an altercation last month after police responded to an alleged “burglary in progress” at a home in Nuuanu. His memorial service took place in Empangeni on Thursday and his funeral is set […]

7 May 2021

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