Category : Local

Eskom implements Stage 4 load shedding on Monday

admin Jul 10, 2023 0 383

Already dealing with the intense cold weather, South Africans are set to brace themselves for sitting in the cold and dark, as power utility Eskom announced it will be implementing Stage 4 load shedding from 1pm on Monday.

Local

Insurance killer Rosemary Ndlovu caught with a cellphone in prison

admin Jul 10, 2023 0 369

Convicted serial killer and former policewoman Rosemary Ndlovu finds herself on the wrong side of the law again; this time she was caught with a cellphone in the Johannesburg Female Correctional Services.

Local

UMlazi patient who was abandoned by paramedics dies, family pleads for burial help

admin Jul 10, 2023 0 412

Thembeka Sikhosana from uMlazi who was abandoned by paramedics two weeks ago died in Prince Mshiyeni Memorial Hospital on Thursday and her family is pleading for help with burial expenses.

Local

Smoking gun: Convicted cop killer leads officers to pistol he allegedly used in 17 murder

admin Jul 7, 2023 0 356

Police in Ekurhuleni have recovered a 9mm Girsan pistol linked to the murder of at least 17 people, including a police officer.

Local

Boksburg Gas Leak | 17 people dead, 11 in hospital

admin Jul 7, 2023 0 449

BOKSBURG - Families affected by the Boksburg gas leak are pleading for government assistance

Local

Attempt to rig R80 million tender backfires, former manager fined R100,000 or five years in jail

admin Jul 6, 2023 0 454

The Palmridge Specialised Commercial Crimes Court has sentenced 57-year-old Wade Ashton Leaf to a fine of R100,000 or five years imprisonment after he pleaded and was found guilty on a charge of corruption.

Local

Three children among 17 killed in Boksburg ‘gas leak’ tragedy

admin Jul 6, 2023 0 443

By Thursday morning, it was confirmed that 17 people had lost their lives in the Angelo informal settlement in Boksburg, Gauteng, following a suspected gas leak.

Local

R37 million Menzi High School project hijacked by ‘construction mafia’

admin Jul 5, 2023 0 383

The Public Works department says the government is losing more than R3 billion rand a year due to the delays and disruptions caused by thugs dubbed the “Construction Mafia”.

Local

Pupil found dead at Pretoria school was reported as missing by family - dept

admin Jul 5, 2023 0 419

The Gauteng Education Department said the grade ten learner whose body was found at Hoërskool Garsfontein in Pretoria was reported missing to the police.

Local

44-hour water outage set to hit Joburg

admin Jul 5, 2023 0 375

Johannesburg Water says the postponed 44-hour water outage will now take place next week.

Local

Tale of late night party, drugs, stolen car ends in court win for owner of Mercedes-Benz

admin Jul 5, 2023 0 383

Allegations of being drugged by two unknown women after a late night party and a man “waking up in a daze to discover his 2010 Mercedes-Benz missing” all did not add up to the insurer of the car.

Local

elderly Limpopo couple brutally killed in their bedroom

admin Jul 5, 2023 0 372

Police in Vuwani, outside Thohoyandou, have launched a manhunt for people responsible for the brutal murder of a 74-year-old man and his 58-year-old partner.