The trial of an alleged kidnapping kingpin, Faizel Charloos, hit another snag on Tuesday after electricity supply in Soweto’s Protea North, where the Protea Magistrate’s Court is located, experienced power supply issues.
The police in KwaZulu-Natal have raised concerns about the truck hijacking trend, where law enforcement agencies, including traffic officers, are also believed to be involved.
It has emerged that the driver and conductor of the train alleged to have hit and killed former ANC president and stalwart Chief Albert John Luthuli could not be traced by the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation as they investigated the reopened inquest into his death.
To some people in Pongola, KwaZulu-Natal, where Sithembiso Mdlalose was born and raised, he is remembered as a churchgoer and maths wizard who used to tutor the neighbourhood children.
Behind a dimly lit bar in Malawi’s capital, Ben Manda rubbed his tired eyes and poured a customer a drink. He had been working for 36 hours straight, packing in back-to-back shifts to feed his family of four.
A witness testified that it seemed the magistrate who presided over Luthuli’s inquest in 1967 had already concluded the outcome even before the hearing
The Bloemfontein regional court has handed two men effective sentences of 25 years’ imprisonment each after finding them guilty of damaging essential infrastructure and theft.
A former police officer has been sentenced to 25 years direct imprisonment by the Montagu regional court which found him guilty of raping a teenage girl in the Western Cape in 2016.