Drug Mule returns to South Africa Convicted South African drug mule Nolubabalo "Babsie" Nobanda will be arriving in South Africa on Thursday, according to news reports. Nobanda was arrested at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport on December 12, 2011, after getting off a Qatar Airways flight. Approximately 1.5 kg of cocaine, with an estimated street value [...]
Robert Mugabe The family of Zimbabwe’s former president Robert Mugabe has said that he will be buried early next week in his village and not at a national monument for liberation heroes. Mugabe, whose autocratic rule ended in a military coup in 2017, died last week in Singapore aged 95. His body was [...]
Chester Williams Former Springbok captain Francois Pienaar says that his 1995 Rugby World Cup-winning team-mate Chester Williams - who died after a heart attack on Friday last week - was "fit" and "looked after himself". Pienaar was speaking at Wiliams’ memorial service at the University of the Western Cape’s Bellville Campus on Wednesday 11th September 2019. Pienaar was at [...]
Nicholas Ninow The trial of Nicholas Ninow, the man who admitted raping a 7-year-old girl in the bathroom of a Dros establishment in Pretoria last year, enters its final stage today before the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria gives its judgement. Ninow has reportedly pleaded guilty to raping the child. He is being [...]
Police Minister Bheki Cele Police Minister Bheki Cele is painting a bleak picture for the future of South Africa, saying that murders have increased by 1.4% in the current financial year. According to the latest crime statistics, 21,022 murders were recorded for the 2018/2019 financial year. The figure was 686 more than the [...]
Barry Bateman The South African Editors' Forum has added its voice to a recent incident where Eyewitness News journalist Barry Bateman swore at EFF leader Julius Malema shortly after an interview. The video has been shared widely on social media resulting in Bateman's name trending on Twitter. EWN has apologised to Malema for the [...]
Parliament is set to have a snap debate on the wave of violence targeting mainly African immigrants that has seen people attacking and looting shops in Johannesburg and Pretoria. The debate is likely to take place on Tuesday next week, National Assembly Speaker Thandi Modise has confirmed. Modise told the National Assembly’s programming committee that [...]
The SABC remains in the spotlight at the state capture inquiry on Thursday. The Commission of Inquiry into state capture will hear testimony from South African Broadcasting Cooperation (SABC) employees Krivani Pillay, Mwaba Phiri, and Thandeka Gqubule-Mbeki.
South African businesses MTN and Shoprite have closed stores in Nigeria after their facilities came under attack. That's after days of riots in South Africa targeting foreign-owned businesses. MTN in Nigeria says it'll shut all stores and service centres in the country until further notice. Shoprite says several stores in Nigeria and Zambia had been [...]
The National Assembly will debate the country's unemployment crisis on Thursday. DA leader Mmusi Maimane asked the Parliament Speaker Thandi Modise for an urgent debate on joblessness. The country's unemployment rate climbed to 29-percent in the second quarter of the year. Maimane says the DA will use the debate to table its comprehensive economic recovery [...]
