Actress Pearl Thusi may be used to having cameras following her, but the latest spotlight on the Queen Sono star is coming from the taxman, with SARS claiming that she owes close to R15 million. The South African Revenue Service has issued a final demand warning Thusi that her assets could be sold if the […]

Six men suspected of hijacking a vehicle were arrested after they fled on foot during a police chase in Cape Town, following an incident in which the vehicle’s owner’s husband was stabbed in Mfuleni. The arrests came after City Traffic officers spotted a vehicle believed to have been hijacked and followed it along the R300 […]

Ndodana Mkhanyisi Tshuma’s guilty plea in South Africa has sparked new questions about what happens next—especially whether he can now be extradited to the UK to face serious murder charges, or whether he will have to serve his South African sentence first. Tshuma is accused of murdering his wife and two daughters in the UK […]

Four cash-in-transit guards have been killed in separate attacks in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal, highlighting the growing danger faced by workers transporting money across South Africa. The deadly incidents happened early this week in Mamelodi East and the Nkunzana area. Several other guards were wounded, while police recovered explosives, firearms and other evidence from the crime […]

Family, friends and fellow cyclists will gather on Friday to celebrate the life of Constantia cyclist Laura Blake, who died after spending more than three weeks in intensive care following a serious road collision. The 51-year-old Zimbabwean-born mother and businesswoman was remembered by her loved ones as a woman “full of life” with an infectious […]

More than two years after six-year-old Joshlin Smith vanished from Saldanha, a yellow ribbon said to carry the child’s DNA has become the centre of a renewed search — and a prison visit left convicted mother Kelly Smith visibly shaken. Search activist Reverend June Dolley-Major has revealed new evidence recovered from the Saldanha dunes after […]

A Gauteng man who travelled to Winterveld to buy an ice-cream machine was ambushed, shot three times and left fighting for his life after responding to an advertisement on Facebook Marketplace. The victim had travelled with his wife on 28 November 2021 after communicating with people who appeared to be selling the machine online. What […]

A one-year-old Oudtshoorn girl is recovering at home after a terrifying near-drowning that saw her older brother pull her from the family pool and her mother race her to hospital. Níke Kruger had been to a routine one-year milestone check-up on Tuesday, 18 August, and her mother, Bianca, said the child was healthy and that […]

An Eastern Cape woman has been convicted of the premeditated murder of six-year-old Likuwe Mpokopi, bringing a two-year court case to the point where attention now turns to sentencing. Noluvuyo Sinyikatha, 23, was found guilty in the Eastern Cape Division of the High Court in Mthatha after the court heard how Likuwe was taken to […]

Threats against Madlanga Commission co-commissioner Advocate Sandile Khumalo SC, senior advocate Myron Dewrance SC and members of Dewrance’s family have been condemned as an attack on the legal profession and the rule of law. The alleged intimidation has reportedly escalated from threats against the two advocates to explicit threats of sexual violence against women connected […]