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Students slam UFS decision to end provisional registration system

13 October at 15:06 PM, via SowetanLIVE

Classes at the University of the Free State came to a halt last week as students protested against the university’s decision to discontinue provisional registration from 2026, a move student leaders say will exclude poor and working-class students from higher education.

Police sergeant kills colleague, wounds wife then turns gun on himself in Limpopo

13 October at 14:58 PM, via SowetanLIVE

A police sergeant attached to the presidential protection service (PPS) in Pretoria took his own life after allegedly killing a fellow officer and wounding his wife in domestic-related shootings.The 53-year-old sergeant from Riba Cross, Burgersfort, allegedly fatally shot a female sergeant in Pretoria on Saturday.

Mkhwanazi and I had a good work relationship until AKA murder case – Sibiya

13 October at 14:12 PM, via SowetanLIVE

Suspended deputy national police commissioner for crime detection Lt-Gen Shadrack Sibiya says tensions between him and KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Lt- Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi began after he asked Mkhwanazi’s team to brief about arrests in the murder of music superstar Kiernan “AKA” Forbes.

DA withdraws MP from police corruption inquiry over conflict of interest

13 October at 12:37 PM, via SowetanLIVE

The DA has withdrawn one of its MPs from parliament’s ad hoc committee investigating allegations of corruption in the criminal justice system, citing a potential conflict of interest after it emerged that she previously opened a case against suspended police minister Senzo Mchunu.

WATCH | DA withdraws MP from police corruption inquiry over conflict of interest

13 October at 12:37 PM, via SowetanLIVE

The DA has withdrawn one of its MPs from parliament’s ad hoc committee investigating allegations of corruption in the criminal justice system, citing a potential conflict of interest after it emerged that she previously opened a case against suspended police minister Senzo Mchunu.

WATCH | Media access to Madlanga Commission to be decided

13 October at 08:39 AM, via SowetanLIVE

Members of the media will learn whether they will be permitted to attend the Madlanga Commission proceedings, which are set to resume on Monday.Evidence leaders are expected to bring an application before the commission requesting that the session be held in-camera.The commission was adjourned more than a week ago after crime intelligence head Dumisani Khumalo fell ill while delivering his...

Closed hearings application to ban media, public from Madlanga inquiry

13 October at 08:02 AM, via SowetanLIVE

Evidence leaders in the Madlanga commission probing allegations of criminality, political interference and corruption in the criminal justice system are expected to apply for evidence to be presented in camera indefinitely as the hearings proceed on Monday.

42 people killed in bus accident in Limpopo

13 October at 06:30 AM, via SowetanLIVE

Seven children are among the 42 people killed when a passenger bus overturned on the highway outside Louis Trichardt in Limpopo on Sunday evening.

RAF lawyer lives high life as victim suffers

13 October at 05:20 AM, via SowetanLIVE

A Gauteng woman whose daughter was injured in a car accident says she has watched in pain as a disbarred lawyer flaunted a glamorous lifestyle online, all while refusing to pay her R1.8m of her child’s Road Accident Fund monies.

VIDEO | Hundreds of children battle hunger in Gauteng

13 October at 04:15 AM, via SowetanLIVE

More than 200 cases of children battling malnutrition have been recorded in children at a clinic in Olievenhoutbosch Extension 13, though there is a food bank 40km away, which distributes up to 700 food parcels daily. These 224 cases are the highest recorded in Gauteng clinics between April 2024 and March 2025.

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