Domestic

The Road Traffic Management Corporation said that a prominent Mpumalanga businessman appeared in the Mbombela Magistrate Court on Tuesday for his alleged role in a vehicle licensing scam that cost the Provincial Transport Department around R60 million.

A seemingly desperate Durban wife has been arrested after she allegedly faked her own kidnapping and demanded a ransom from her businessman husband.

Mpumalanga police have launched a manhunt for the gunmen who shot and killed the wife of late Chief Clyde Mnisi, who died in a hail of bullets last week.

Members of a Parliamentary Committee lashed out at private security firm, G4S, after the company requested to be officially summoned to appear before the Portfolio Committee on Justice and Corrections to account for the dramatic escape of so-called Facebook rapist, Thabo Bester. Committee Chairperson, Gratitude Magwanishe, told MPs on Tuesday that G4S had sent a letter on Monday afternoon asking to be officially summoned to appear before the Committee and to do so after the Easter weekend.

Metalworkers' union Numsa says it's preparing for a national strike in the bus passenger sector which it says is likely to start ahead of the upcoming Easter long weekend. That is if the employer does not come to the party.

Durban restaurant, Wish on Florida, will be closing its doors nearly two months after rapper Kiernan 'AKA' Forbes and his friend Tebello 'Tibz' Motsoane were shot and killed outside the establishment.

Kwazulu Natal police arrested an 18-year-old suspect in connection with the killing of six people in Umbumbulu on Saturday night.

Opposition parties on Monday lamented the government's decision to exempt Eskom from disclosing fruitless and wasteful expenditures in its annual statements for the next three years.

Five suspected drug dealers have been shot and killed during a shoot-out with the police’s Anti-Gang unit in Kwa Zulu Natal.