Tragically, poverty is now fueling a fresh health crisis in Nepal, this time centred mostly on kidneys.
One of the key players behind the Chinese sci-fi book adaptation was sentenced to death just a day after the show’s release for poisoning the guy who owns the film rights.
The ‘adjusted’ VIP Risk Management System will now allow each of the 270 councillors and other committee members access to two VIP security guards without needing an SA Police Service (SAPS) risk assessment.
Judging by some of the charges, Magistrate Judith van Schalkwyk should rather get a TV deal.
In 2022 alone, the government lost R15 billion in excise and R3 billion in VAT from these illicit sales.
Jooste’s unexpected demise as a result of white-collar crimes is nothing new in South Africa.
It looks like the downfall of bigshot Hollywood names is happening fast and furious as all their dark shenanigans come to light.
Police Minister Bheki Cele has been ordered to pay a hefty damages fine of R350,000 after arresting the wrong person.
“It’s a joke. This law was someone’s expression of moral outrage.”
Nearly three weeks after being kidnapped outside a Brits primary school, cousins Mohamed Bataviya, 19, and Zahraa Mohamed, 17, have finally been freed after a successful sting operation by police.
Ignoring the police and bystanders at the scene, Tellez was seen “waving casually at cameras as he made his escape, swinging the severed leg around”.
The mother of the missing Saldanha Bay girl, Joshlin Smith, is pregnant while awaiting trial behind bars in Cape Town’s notorious Pollsmoor Prison.
After dodging allegations of an affair with the future King of England, Rose Hanbury, the Marchioness of Cholmondeley, has now come into the crosshairs of Chinese social media users.
In the years before Steinhoff went kaput, Jooste developed a ‘near-mythical reputation of a seminal businessman with the Midas touch’.
Apparently, the 30-something Joburger presented himself as a successful businessman claiming to have unique software for architectural rendering.
These “burglary tourists” are allegedly responsible for 94 burglaries in just one section of the city in 2023 alone, officials with the Los Angeles Police Department said.
“The Yemeni armed forces warn all Israeli ships heading to or coming from the ports of occupied Palestine not to pass through the Cape of Good Hope, or they will be a legitimate target for our armed forces.”
“It appears that the individuals, who chartered the boat, may have provided false information as to their identity – after arriving in the Sodwana Bay area, reportedly, on a motorbike.”
The scheme sounds like the perfect plot for a John Grisham novel, with cloning, trafficking, forgery, hybrid animals, and trophy hunters all part of the crazy story.
Since SA has accused Israel of genocide in the International Court of Justice, our Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor kicked up the growing questions about legal consequences for IDF troops who hold other citizenship this week.
Our police may have 99 problems, but stoned rats aren’t one of them.
You might want to think thrice the next time you feel like flipping the bird to some a**hole on the road in Jozi.
The disgraced preacher, who is currently on trial for multiple sex crimes, was appointed as the party’s candidate to lead Gauteng after the party’s leader – himself a rape-trial veteran – was moved by the rape-accused preacher’s loyal congregants singing a hymn about machine guns in church.
More than 1,300 children are kidnapped every month, according to Missing Children South Africa, with SA ranked first on the African continent in kidnappings and seventh-highest worldwide.
“While we always aim for zero instances of harm at our organization, the very nature of this kind of sexual expression does have some risk.”
The man, masquerading as a religious leader, was arrested after submitting fraudulent documents in an attempt to purchase a luxury car.
Despite the horrific nature of the murder, Novella has expressed no remorse and has portrayed himself as the victim, rather choosing to blame his conduct as a result of drug consumption.
Kelly Smith was charged along with her boyfriend, Jacquen Appollis, and two others, following their arrest.
The warning follows the disappearance of four children in the Western Cape in the last two weeks.
It seems like yonks ago that the convicted ‘Facebook rapist’ Thabo Bester was spotted shopping at Woolworths after everyone was told he had burned to death in his prison cell.