High Court Dismisses Marikana Application

The Pretoria High Court has dismissed the urgent application ordering President Jacob Zuma to release the Marikana report. The presidency confirmed that the report will be released by the 30th of June this year. However, injured minors and those who were arrested for their part in the horrendous events that took place on the 16th of August 2012 put through an urgent interdict to have it released sooner, citing the need for closure as the reason for the urgent application. The... Read more »
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By Oliver Ngwenya On Sunday, June 14th, 2015

South Africa May Arrest Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir

After rolling out the red carpet for all the African leaders in South Africa for the African Union Summit which is currently being held in Sandton in Johannesburg, the ANC-led government seems to have found its... Read more »
By Oliver Ngwenya On Saturday, June 13th, 2015

Danny Jordaan Has not Been Billed for Electricity for Seven Years

In shocking news, it has emerged that the recently appointed Mayor of the border town of Nelson Mandela Bay, Danny Jordaan, has not been billed for electricity for the past seven years. This follows a report th... Read more »
By Chelsea-Summer Lodewyk On Saturday, June 13th, 2015

Panayiotou Bail Denied: Potential Witness Tampering

Yet another slap in the face was served to Christopher Panayioutou and his legal team in the Port Elizabeth Magistrate’s Court on Friday. Magistrate Abigail Beeton listed the reasons she denied the murder... Read more »
By Oliver Ngwenya On Friday, June 12th, 2015

Eskom CEO Brian Molefe Calls Strikers Traitors

The acting Chief Executive Officer for the Eskom, Mr Brian Molefe, has described the workers that are on strike at the Medupi plant as traitors who are bent on destabilizing the country at a time when the compa... Read more »
By Chelsea-Summer Lodewyk On Wednesday, June 10th, 2015

NPA Deputy Head Charged with Fraud and Perjury

Deputy Head and Head Advocate of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), Nomgcobo Jiba, appeared in the Pretoria Regional Court on Wednesday on charges of fraud and perjury. The charges link to Jiba’s u... Read more »
By Oliver Ngwenya On Wednesday, June 10th, 2015

Marli van Breda Returns to School

Marli van Breda, one of the two survivors of the Stellenbosch axe murders, has started going back to her former school on a full time basis and is said to be coping well with all her work to the extent that she... Read more »
By Oliver Ngwenya On Tuesday, June 9th, 2015

Another Group of Prisoners Escapes

The police in Gauteng have reported that seven prisoners awaiting trial have escaped from the police who were looking after them when they overpowered the attending police officers and escaped from the Lenasia ... Read more »
By Oliver Ngwenya On Sunday, June 7th, 2015

FIFA Crisis: Morocco, not South Africa, Should Have Hosted the World Cup in 2010!

As the FIFA crisis deepens, more absurd and dramatic claims are beginning to emerge. One of the revelations is that the right to host the 2010 FIFA World Cup was won by Morocco rather than South Africa, who bec... Read more »
By Chelsea-Summer Lodewyk On Friday, June 5th, 2015

Panayiotou Bail Application Denied

The Port Elizabeth Magistrates’ court has denied murder accused Christopher Panayiotou bail. The presiding Magistrate, Abigail Beeton said that Panayiotou and his legal team failed to show any plausible c... Read more »