The Eyewitness News bulletin with Jane Dutton.

The party’s general secretary, Solly Mapaila, told Eyewitness News that Zuma pioneered state capture and allowed corrupt politicians to infiltrate government entities. Mapaila was speaking in Mpumalanga on Thursday, where he delivered the Joe Slovo Memorial Lecture.

An update on the bail hearing for 49-year-old Segomotsi Setshwantsho, accused of murdering her niece and falsifying her cause of death after signing her up for life insurance.

Gilad Noam, representing Israel at the International Court of Justice, delivered closing arguments to South Africa’s genocide case.

Segomotsi Setshwantsho is accused of murdering a niece in March last year by giving her a poisoned sandwich for a R3 million insurance payout.

Four of the six suspects accused of the New Year’s Day shooting have been remanded in custody until the 30th when they will formally apply for bail.

The Cape Youth Congress staged a protest at the city’s civic centre on Friday over what they called the Democratic Alliance (DA)’s silence to the ongoing offensive in Gaza.

The human rights organisation’s Thandi Henkerman said that more than 150,000 child grant and old age grant beneficiaries had not been paid in January.

As the new academic year draws closer, the Department of Education finds itself in a tough spot as it tries to pick up the pieces of damaged infrastructure.

As the new academic year draws closer, the Department of Education finds itself in a tough spot as it tries to pick up the pieces of damaged infrastructure.

The department said the damage happened over the festive season.

Before schools closed in December, the department announced that it had allocated places for 99% of learners in those grades.

Eskom said six units had been taken offline while there’s been a delay in returning others to service.

Demonstrators at the city’s headquarters occupied the building’s corridors, chanting ‘Free Palestine’.

It’s understood that 150,000 social grant beneficiaries did not receive their SASSA grant payments in January.

It’s understood that 150,000 social grant beneficiaries did not receive their SASSA grant payments in January.

Farm vet, Doctor Sherike van der Merwe, said she’s witnessed the effects illegal racing was having on horses in the town.

Limpopo police are investigating the deaths of three children who are believed to have suffocated after they were trapped in a parked car at a village outside Tzaneen.

Segomotsi Setshwantsho faces a charge for the murder of her niece who the state believes was poisoned for a R3 million payout.

Desmond and Leah Tutu Foundation CEO, Janet Jobson, said the erection of the statue was part of an ongoing protest against Israel’s war on Gaza.

The EMS staff were on their way to the Mitchells Plain District Hospital with a patient inside the ambulance when they were attacked on Thursday.