Domestic

The latest crime statistics released by Police Minister Bheki Cele on Tuesday indicated a 3.4% increase in the murder rate between January and March this year.

Five children were killed when a bakkie they were travelling in rolled several times in Mitchells Plain on Tuesday morning.

Bail has been denied for four of the five suspects linked to the escape of Thabo Bester from the Mangaung Correctional Centre in May 2022.

The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa, ICASA, has established a Council Committee to determine the impact of the current state of load shedding on the electronic communications, broadcasting, and postal services sectors.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has moved to assure South Africans that the government’s immediate priority is to end the cholera outbreak and ensure safe water for all.

Two men are due to appear in court on Monday after former Springbok player, Lukas van Biljon, was stabbed several times when six men entered a house on a smallholding in Oranjeville.

The National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) says a JetRib stolen from Station 16 in Strandfontein, in Cape Town, has been found burnt out in the bushes. Spokesperson Craig Lambinon says the JetRib, when fully equipt is worth R650 000, was stolen in the early hours of the morning after the padlocks to the slipway were damaged.

Wanted Rwandan fugitive, Fulgence Kayishema, appeared in the Cape Town Magistrates Court on Friday following his arrest on an Interpol Red Notice.

Two years after a farmer and one of the attackers were killed during a farm attack, a suspect was e linked to the incident through his DNA.