WEDNESDAY, 09 JULY 2025, 11:27
The spat over whether the DA is disobeying the President by refusing to join the National Dialogue is indicative of a major problem within SA’s national coalition. There is no chemistry between the leaders of the DA and the ANC, which threatens to poison the entire arrangement.
KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi has alleged that senior figures, including Police Minister Senzo Mchunu, undermined investigations into political killings and organised crime.
This morning at 9.30am, Eastern Cape Judge President Selby Mbenenge will finally testify at the mammoth Judicial Conduct Tribunal investigating allegations against him of sexual harassment.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has described allegations levelled against police minister Senzo Mchunu as a matter of grave national security concern and that the matter is receiving the highest priority attention.
The South African Weather Service has warned of damaging waves in the Western Cape while damaging winds are forecast for parts of the Eastern Cape.
The police are investigating a case of murder after three men were gunned down at the Covid informal settlement in Mfuleni, Western Cape.
Police minister Senzo Mchunu has dismissed as “baseless” allegations levelled against him by KwaZulu-Natal Provincial commissioner Lit-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, insisting they lacked evidence.
KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi says there is a ploy to silence investigations into the murders of personalities in the entertainment industry.
KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner, Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, has registered a criminal investigation against Police Minister Senzo Mchunu following claims of political interference in work carried out by the task team into political killings.
KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner, L-t Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi says the political killings task team has unmasked a syndicate controlled by a drug cartel that involves politicians, law enforcement, business people, prosecutors and the judiciary.
The City of Cape Town’s Water and Sanitation Directorate will carry out planned maintenance that will cause water outages in certain areas starting Monday.
Ekurhuleni mayor Nkosindiphile Xhakaza has hinted at a link between Mpho Mafole’s murder and the municipality’s ballooning infrastructure costs that include a building rehabilitation project in Germiston and a R2bn revenue shortfall in the city.
Almost 4 000 people have been left homeless after heavy flooding in Cape Town, with informal settlements among the hardest hit.
Haunting cries echoed through the Kempton Park city hall this morning when a friend of the slain City of Ekurhuleni auditor, Mpho Mafole, played one of the last voicenotes he received from him.