Новости за 13.03.2024

Rand Water is said to be investigating why a valve, through which water is supplied to more than 20 suburbs, was closed during an outage that has seen many residents go without water for 11 days.

The Gauteng High Court sitting in Palm Ridge has found Sifiso Mkhwanazi guilty of killing six Johannesburg sex workers.

Second in command at the US Treasury, Wally Adeyemo, says that country is committed to working with SA to combat terror financing and illicit financial flows, barriers to attracting foreign investment given South Africa’s greylist status.

New Zealander Tony Brown has long been an admirer of the Springboks' style of play, with the former All Blacks flyhalf revealing on Tuesday that former Bok pivot Henry Honiball was his favourite player.

The police have been ordered to produce proof the more than 50 000 firearms handed over during amnesty periods or confiscated, were tested, and not linked to any crime before they were destroyed.

Just as the ANC ignored "Through the Eye of the Needle" 10 years ago, it is doing the same with "Organisational Renewal", if the list of ANC candidates for Parliament is anything to go by. The party has hardly changed over the past 10 years, argues Mcebisi Ndletyana.

If voter turnout falls even lower in 2024, it is a serious indictment on all our political parties, argues Vanessa Banton.

Four new police stations are expected to be completed in the Western Cape in the next two years. Residents have welcomed this addition to community services, saying they will aid in stamping out crime that has "reached a boiling point".

An independent investigation has cleared Mediclinic of intentionally manipulating billing or coding to save the hospital group money.

Ekurhuleni Mayor Sivuyile Ngodwana survived to fight another day after a council sitting had to be adjourned to consider two amendments to a motion of no confidence in him.

Without critical action, nearly 230 000 children and new mothers in war-ravaged Sudan are "likely to die from hunger", Save the Children warned on Wednesday.

Joe Biden and rival Donald Trump each won enough delegates Tuesday to clinch their party nominations in the 2024 presidential race, networks projected, all but assuring a rematch and setting up one of the longest election campaigns in US history.

The Independent Police Investigative Directorate has launched an investigation into the death of a Tshwane University of Technology student who was allegedly killed by police following a protest in Emalahleni on the weekend.

Three Egyptian Coptic monks were killed inside a monastery in Gauteng.

The High Court placed the lender, which is the local unit of a Pakistan-based bank, into final liquidation after an application by the Prudential Authority (PA) and Reserve Bank, which described it as "hopelessly insolvent."

Leonid Volkov, a close ally of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, was assaulted outside his home in Vilnius on Tuesday, an incident that sparked an uproar from the Lithuanian government.

With cinema companies back in full swing post-pandemic, a study in the UK has revealed that a movie might not be the only thing you catch in a theatre.

A recent report from the international collaboration Future of Free Speech analysing freedom of speech trends in 22 democracies has laid bare how much this right is under threat around the world. Jacob Mchangama and Caroline James write they assisted in preparing the report's section on South Africa and will continue to monitor the trends in this country.

The ANC, backed by the EFF, has forced through the Electoral Matters Amendment Bill in the National Assembly, despite other opposition parties' threats of litigation as they see the bill as an ANC "smash and grab" to fill its coffers with a larger share of public money for political parties.

Frustrated Johannesburg residents took to the streets on Tuesday to protest against the ongoing water crisis, complaining about the municipality's lack of transparency.

Groups of "construction mafia" extortionists are targeting City of Cape Town officials in the urban waste directorate, according to the City's MMC for Urban Waste Management, Grant Twigg.

A group of women has braved the heat in Sebokeng to show their unwavering support for their "spiritual father", rape-accused Bishop Bafana Stephen Zondo.

The husband of Phumza Sigaqa, one of the four suspects arrested in connection with the disappearance of six-year-old Joshlin Smith, insists his wife is not a sangoma and should not have been arrested.

The National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) has issued the Road Accident Fund with a strike notice, saying it will shut down its offices in protest against alleged mismanagement by CEO Collins Letsoalo.

Western Cape police are on the hunt for two people in connection with the murder of four Bulgarians who were shot dead in Constantia about 10 months ago.