It was a tragic and unexpected end to two lives when Matri and Nicholas Molver never woke up the morning after their quiet evening in their Durban flat. An investigation into their deaths revealed that a dangerous poison had been spread throughout the flat, a poison intended to kill rats in grain silos, not registered […]
Rolling blackouts have become a regular occurrence in South Africa, and in many cases, the problem of traffic during these times is left in the hands of inexperienced, unauthorised ‘pointsmen’. This worrying trend has caught the attention of the Automobile Association (AA), which has urged traffic authorities to step in and do more to ensure […]
SPRINGBOK – Kangnas Wind Farm, together with the District Municipality and other stakeholders, recently gathered for a meet and greet event with 11 beneficiary students of their bursary programme. The aim of the event was to motivate the students, as well as to introduce the programme to the Department of Education and representatives of both […]
Today the Democratic Alliance (DA) has revealed that the US dollars hidden inside the couch on President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Phala Phala farm were not declared to the South African Revenue Service (SARS) upon entering South Africa. The DA obtained this information directly from SARS following a request submitted in terms of the Promotion of Access […]
On Monday morning, just after 07:40, Netcare 911 responded to a major collision involving a truck, taxi and at least thirty other vehicles on the M41 East Bound in Umhlanga Ridge, Durban in KwaZulu-Natal. The truck driver allegedly lost control, ploughing through morning traffic in an accident which left 22 people injured. The extent of […]
USA – Situated in the heart of Utah, the Great Salt Lake is a beloved body of water, but it is facing a severe ecological crisis. With climate change and water diversion, this lake is quickly shrinking, which has devastating consequences. The Great Salt Lake once covered an impressive 5957 m², but now it only […]
NORTHERN CAPE – On Thursday, 2 March 2023, the Kimberley Specialised Commercial Crimes Court convicted and sentenced three men for six counts of corruption and six counts of money laundering. The trio, George Wheeler (62), Johannes Lodewykus Kruger (62) and Rudolph Kemp (49), had been served with summons in June 2021 by the Hawks’ Serious […]
The Pretoria Magistrates’ Court convicted Jacobeth Lepinka (52), the National Prosecuting Authority Assistant Director, and her son, Kedifentse (28) on 17 February 2023 for charges relating to accessing top secret information. Police spokesperson Brigadier Thandi Mbambo reported that NPA discovered in 2014 that Lepinka had taken a laptop with classified information to her residence without […]
USA – The recent video of an execution of a homeless man in broad daylight on the streets of St Louis has sparked a conversation about the lack of trust and connection that people feel in large cities. The video shows the perpetrator slowly loading a weapon before the shooting, yet no one intervened to […]