Domestic

Private security company G4S, which runs the Mangaung Correctional Centre from where Thabo Bester escaped, has revealed that CCTV cameras were not working on the morning of the convicted rapist and murderer’s escape. The security company runs the maximum prison facility in Bloemfontein in a public-private partnership with government. 

Gauteng police arrested four people after seizing a large consignment of chemicals used to manufacture drugs on Tuesday.

The Mpumalanga High Court has provisionally withdrawn charges against the four men accused of the murder of Hillary Gardee. The body of the 28-year-old was found dumped in bushes outside Mbombela in Mpumalanga shortly after she went missing in April 2022.

The humanitarian organisation Gift of the Givers said its hostage negotiator has arrived in Mali to try and help secure the release of South African national Gerco van Deventer.

The Tshwane Municipality welcomed the support of Electricity Minister, Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, for its efforts to restore power to the Capital after several electrical pylons collapsed over the weekend.

The Department of Agriculture, Land Reform, and Rural Development says the government is working on new laws to protest South Africans against pit bull attacks.

Three former ABSA bank employees have been jailed for 15 years each for defrauding the Johannesburg Securities Exchange and Samancor of R190 million.

Two of escapee Thabo Bester's alleged accomplices will remain in custody for their formal bail application after appearing in court on Tuesday.

Five people were killed in a multi-vehicle pile-up on the N3 between Hilton and Cedara in Kwazulu Natal on Easter Monday.