Domestic

Police have announced the arrest of a 39–year-old former G4S employee and a 65-year-old man from Port Edward, as part of ongoing investigations into the escape of so-called Facebook rapist Thabo Bester.

The Road Traffic Management Corporation has called on motorists to “resist the temptation to break the rules of the road” as they return home from the Easter holidays and religious pilgrimages.

Two people have died and several others injured following yet another deadly head-on collision in the Eastern Cape. The crash took place on Saturday afternoon on the N2 in Mount Ayliff towards Kokstad.  

Two suspected cash-in-transit robbers were killed in a shootout with police in Centurion on Saturday.

The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union Popcru has welcomed the re-arrest of escaped fugitive Thabo Bester in Tanzania. Bester was arrested in the city of Arusha near the Kenyan border on Friday night along with his girlfriend, Dr Nandipha Magudumana, and a Mozambican national who has since been identified as Zacharia Alberto.

The Minister of Justice and Corrections, Ronald Lamola, has announced the arrest of fugitive Thabo Bester was arrested in Tanzania along with his girlfriend, Dr Nandipha Mugudumana, and a Mozambican national.

Some opposition parties have reacted with shock after news emerged that South Africa’s application to have the Gupta brothers extradited was unsuccessful. Not only that, but that the hearing in the United Arab Emirates had taken place in February already and was only confirmed by the South African government on Friday – almost two months later.

The National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) has refuted claims that there is a shortage of snakebite anti-venom in the country. This follows earlier reports from the African Snakebite Institute on Wednesday that called the shortage a crisis.

The Pretoria High Court will hear two applications next week against former Bosasa COO, Angelo Aggrizzi on his fitness to stand trial.