Advocacy groups have condemned suspended deputy national police commissioner Lieutenant-General Shadrack Sibiya's claim that he did not rape an 18-year-old woman, but had "consensual" sexual intercourse with her. Sibiya, 59, appeared in the Randburg Magistrate's Court on Tuesday for a formal bail application after being arrested on 21 September. The state is opposing his release […]

A Durban e-hailing driver allegedly escaped from a hijacked vehicle after passengers forced him out of the driver’s seat, moved him to the front passenger seat and throttled him. The driver reportedly managed to open the vehicle’s door as it approached Bayview and jumped out. He then flagged down a passing motorist, who transported him […]

A 59-year-old South African Police Service lieutenant general has been arrested over allegations that he groomed a 16-year-old girl and raped an 18-year-old woman. Under South African law and media reporting protocols, a suspect cannot be officially named until they have made their initial court appearance and the charges have been formally put on the […]

Police have opened an inquest after the body of an unidentified woman was found wrapped in a duvet and lying in a dam in Moroka, Soweto. The woman, believed to have been in her twenties, was discovered at about 17:00 on Sunday, 20 September. Her identity had not been established at the time of the […]

The family of former sportscaster and music-rights activist Owen Ndlovu is struggling to understand why he was allegedly taken at gunpoint outside a church, driven away in his own vehicle and later found dead beside a road in Tokoza. Ndlovu was allegedly abducted on Tuesday evening while waiting for his wife outside St John’s Church […]

Thulisa Tete, the estranged wife of slain boxer Zolani Tete, has broken her silence over the shooting that left her injured outside a Mdantsane tavern last year, saying she is still waiting for answers about the investigation. Thulisa and her then-lover, Uzuzole Goqwana, were shot shortly after arriving at Shampiz Tavern in Mdantsane in July […]

A DJ, a footballer, an actor, a podcaster, a controversial television presenter and a poet—names that are familiar in living rooms, on radio playlists and on sports highlight reels—are throwing their hats into the ring for South Africa’s local government elections in November. Politics, it appears, is proving harder to ignore than a new album […]

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 […]

They Ordered Tequila Shooters. She Had Just Fallen Ten Floors. It was still morning. Just after 9am. Anele Tembe was dead on the ground outside the Pepperclub Hotel, having fallen from the 10th floor. Police were on the scene. Staff knew which room it had happened in. And in room 105, somebody picked up the […]

Fresh testimony in the resumed inquest into Anele Tembe’s death has placed the final moments before her fatal fall from a Cape Town hotel’s 10th floor under renewed scrutiny. The 22-year-old died in April 2021 after falling from the Pepperclub Hotel. More than five years later, the formal inquest has returned to the Cape Town […]