Domestic

Deputy Health Minister Sibongiseni Dhlomo has been lauded for saving the life of a fellow passenger who experienced health complications on board a local flight.

Members of Parliament voted to remove the Public Protector, Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane, in a majority on Monday.

Nandipha Magudumana lost her bid to be released from jail on Monday. The ruling was made by Magistrate Estelle de Lange in Bloemfontein. De Lange said that Magudumana was a flight risk and, if granted bail, could assist Thabo Bester to escape from prison again.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced the passing of the founder and president of the Inkatha Freedom Party, Mangosuthu Buthelezi at the age of 95.

Eskom has announced the arrest of nine people at the Kusile Power Station for the alleged theft of coal as well as fraud.

Summer temperatures here can soar into the 40s, and in 2020, the Road Freight Association reported four truck drivers had died waiting to cross the border. The cause of their deaths is unclear, though lack of access to food and water appears to have had something to do with it, even though this was denied by the Department of Home Affairs, which is responsible for operating the borders.

A police Constable from Bloemfontein has been declared unfit to possess a firearm following his conviction for assaulting a member of the public. Spokesperson for the Independent Investigative Directorate (IPID) Robbie Raburabu says 35-year-old Constable Ezekiel Nkuta assaulted a 25-year-old man with a brick on the 30th of September 2018.

A 33-year-old man accused of beating two men and leaving them unconscious appeared before the Klerksdorp Magistrates Court on Thursday. Wernich Botha was arrested on Thursday following the incident that took place at a parking lot at a shopping centre in Doornkruin.

In a slap in the face to existing TV licence holders, the SABC has excluded people who renewed their licence before 1 September 2023 from entering a viewer’s competition with a prize worth a whopping R300 000. The competition aims to entice people to renew and pay their TV licences.