Domestic

The Hawks in Gauteng have arrested a SAPS Captain on charges of corruption following a sting operation.

Gauteng police arrested a 74-year-old man at a funeral in Mamelodi in Pretoria on Tuesday for his alleged role in an investment scam.

Embattled power utility Eskom has refuted claims in posts on social media that the country will soon experience a blackout or collapse of the national electricity grid.

The National Consumer Commission (NCC) has issued a warning to consumers to exercise caution when making transactions with a company called Milo Designs. A spokesperson Phetho Ntaba says the supplier seems to be a scam purporting to be an online store that designs and sells furniture on different social media platforms.

The official unemployment rate in the first quarter of 2023 stood at 32.9%. Statistics South Africa says the latest Quarterly Labour Survey figures indicate that the number of employed persons increased by 258 000 to 16.2 million in the first quarter of 2023, compared to the fourth quarter of 2022.

Police in Taylors Halt in Kwazulu Natal have launched a manhunt for the assailants who doused a group of men with a substance and set them alight in a house on Sunday.

The South African National Defence Force has confirmed that the Chief of the SA Army, Lieutenant-General Lawrence Mbatha is in Moscow for a bilateral between the two military establishments.

Two people, aged 72 and 37 are due to appear in court on Monday after a drug laboratory was raided in Mogale City by the Hawks this week.

Six people – including the two bus drivers – have died when the vehicles crashed on the N2 near Mossel Bay in the early hours of Saturday morning. Police spokesperson Sergeant Chris Spies said 25 others were injured when the buses, a Williams Coach and an Intercape bus, collided at around 1.30 in the morning.