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The political killings task team (PKTT) has cost the police budget R435m from 2018 to September 2025. The figure was provided by SAPS CFO Lt-Gen Puleng Dimpane during her testimony before parliament’s ad hoc committee investigating…
An East London man hurt his ankle when he fell and tried to scam the Road Accident Fund (RAF) out of R5m. He was caught when his case was investigated. Tubalomthandazo Butshingi‚ 32‚ was sentenced for fraud in the city’s regional court on…
A pupil from St Benedict’s college in Bedfordview‚ Ekurhuleni‚ who died before seeing his matric results‚ obtained five distinctions. The school said it was mourning his death as it also celebrated 250 distinctions from the 2023 academic…
Private school pupils who wrote the National Senior Certificate (NSC) through the Independent Examinations Board (IEB) achieved a 98.46% pass rate in the 2023 exams. The figure was a slight improvement on the 98.42% recorded in 2022. At…
Poor print quality on some exam papers and alleged cheating by hundreds of pupils marred the 2023 matric examinations. Despite this‚ the executive council of the quality education assurance body Umalusi said on Monday it was able to…
A R10‚000 fine for a traffic officer convicted for soliciting a R1‚000 bribe in 2014 from a man rushing his pregnant wife to hospital was too lenient‚ the Kimberly high court has ruled. The traffic officer was convicted after a sting…
Abalone and equipment worth R1.2m were seized while being offloaded in the Eastern Cape at the weekend. The 26 abalone bags‚ a rubber duck boat and diving equipment were confiscated by the economic protected resources (EPR) team of the…
The Eastern Cape education department has confirmed the suspension of a principal who allegedly instructed seven pupils to sit out the matric exams as they were “unfit to write” and would ruin the good pass mark of their school. The…
Dis-Chem has welcomed the Pretoria high court’s decision to allow pharmacists to manage and prescribe medicine for HIV and tuberculosis (TB) patients. The court this week gave the South African Pharmacy Council the green light to…
It was a winter wonderland for most parts of South Africa as snow hit various provinces between Friday and Monday morning. Residents across South Africa took to social media to share images and videos of snowfall or flakes making landfall…
Two retired SAPS generals and one serving general have been charged with corruption‚ the Independent Police Investigative Directorate says. The trio were members of a selection panel responsible for the interview and recommendation of…
“It is time he tastes his own medicine.” This is what some people said when reacting to the expulsion of Ace Magashule from the ANC. The ANC confirmed Magashule’s expulsion on Monday after the party’s national disciplinary committee found…
The Eastern Cape Liquor Board (ECLB) has issued a stern warning to matric pupils planning “pens down” parties as June examinations draw to a close. The board said it was alarmed some pupils have started making plans to organise “pens…
Joseph Ndlovu crossed the Comrades Marathon finish line as a married man on Sunday. The Pretoria man held up a sign saying: “Thank you Prudence for marrying me. Love you.” Ndlovu won hearts last year when he proposed to his girlfriend…
Hammanskraal families affected by the cholera outbreak will take legal action against the government for the deaths of their loved ones. The families will tackle this with assistance from legal representatives in the area. One of the…
