Domestic

A 21-year-old student from Varsity College in Sandton appeared in court on Tuesday for allegedly killing a school teacher. Bafana Mahungela was arrested on Sunday, just weeks after the body of 34-year-old Kirsten Kluyts was discovered in George Lea Park.

The arms deal soon after the ANC came to power, the Gupta affair, illegal cigarettes, the VBS saga, and putting people’s lives at risk with tender fraud during the Covid-19 pandemic have earned government officials, ministers and politicians the prize of being considered corrupt until proven otherwise.

At least 11 miners have died at Impala Platinum Mine. The mining company said a number of people sustained serious injuries during the incident at their operations in Rustenburg in North West on Thursday.

The husband of Amazimtoti reverend, Liezel de Jager made his first appearance in court more than two years after she was strangled to death at her home. Werner de Jager, 42, was arrested in Bloemfontein last week after the SAPS Cold Case Unit took over the docket.

One person was killed and a teenager injured after a gas tank exploded at a scrap yard in Phoenix in Kwazulu Natal on Monday afternoon. Members of Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) received multiple calls from the scrap metal dealer reporting an explosion on his premises.

Five suspected bank robbers were killed in a shootout with police on the N14 highway at Ventersdorp on Monday afternoon.

Detectives from Sandton in Johannesburg have cracked the case of a high school teacher who was murdered while jogging in Parkmore. Kirsten Kluyts, 34, who was a teacher at Delta Park High School, South of Johannesburg was murdered at George Lea Park on 29 October.

A man believed to be the husband of slain Reverend Liezel de Jager is expected to appear in the Durban Magistrates Court on Monday. De Jager was strangled to death at her home in Amanzimtoti on 13 October 2021.

The Speaker of the National Assembly, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula will lead a multi-party delegation to the COP28 conference on Climate Change in Dubai this week.