Mmatumelo Lebjane
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Western Cape mayor, municipal manager, CFO arrested over corruption (opens the original)
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A mayor, a municipal manager and a chief financial officer have been arrested in connection with an alleged corruption investigation involving a security services contract at a municipality on the southern coast of the Western Cape. The three were arrested on Thursday by the SAPS’s political killings task team following information received by police about alleged kickbacks being solicited from a businessman who had been awarded the security contract. National police spokesperson Brig Athlenda M
Stilfontein man sentenced to life for murdering two-year-old boy (opens the original)
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A 33-year-old man has been sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering a two-year-old boy in Stilfontein, North West, after the child woke up crying during the night. National Prosecuting Authority spokesperson Lindiwe Mabasa said Carel Fouche was sentenced by the Stilfontein regional court on Thursday for the murder of the child, who was in his care at the time. Fouche murdered the child on May 15 2025 after smoking crystal methamphetamine with the boy’s grandmother, with whom he was in a rela
N3, N12 lanes closed after truck catches fire at Germiston interchange (opens the original)
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A truck jack-knifed and caught alight at the N3 South/N12 West split at the Elands interchange in Germiston, Ekurhuleni, on Thursday, temporarily closing several lanes on both freeways. Firefighters from Alberton and Germiston fire stations were called to the scene at about 12.55pm. Disaster and emergency management services spokesperson William Ntladi said a scene-and-risk assessment was conducted on arrival. “All three lanes of the N12 westbound were temporarily closed while firefighters carri
Study finds widespread welfare concerns at SA’s captive lion venues (opens the original)
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A peer-reviewed assessment of 34 captive lion tourism venues across SA has raised concerns about the welfare conditions experienced by lions kept in the commercial captive wildlife industry. The study, conducted by Blood Lions and World Animal Protection, assessed facilities in Gauteng, Limpopo, Free State and North West provinces. Researchers visited the venues as paying members of the public to document the conditions and activities ordinarily experienced by visitors. The venues catered for lo
Cosatu calls for urgent approval of R10bn fuel price relief bill (opens the original)
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The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has called on parliament to urgently pass a special appropriation bill that would make R10bn available to cushion South Africans from rising fuel prices. Cosatu made the call in its submission to parliament’s standing committee on appropriations on Wednesday, in support of the Second Special Appropriation (2025/26 Financial Year) Bill. The bill proposes allocating R10bn to the Central Energy Fund’s Equalisation Fund to help protect workers, com
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