Domestic

Fourteen people have been shot dead at a tavern in Soweto. Nine others were wounded and three are in a critical condition in hospital following the shooting in the early hours of Sunday morning.

The National Taxi Alliance (NTA) has written to the Department of Minerals and Energy on the issue of fuel levies. It wants government to look at ways in which it can ease fuel levies in the wake of a series of sharp price hikes.

A year has gone since the country suffered the devastation of the July riots that rocked Kwazulu Natal and Gauteng, leading to the deaths of over 300 people and an estimated R50-billion rands in damage and destruction.

Illegal mining in the Namakwa district has been dealt a significant blow following the arrest of 300 illegal miners this week. Police spokesperson Colonel Mashay Gamieldien says a joint operation was executed earlier this week in the Nuttabooi mining area where they found 300 illegal miners were found digging at the identified site.

A man who defrauded the National Lotteries Commission (NLC) of more than R1.5 million rand has been sentenced to an effective 8 years behind bars. Forty-six-year-old Christopher Tshivulu was sentenced in the Specialised Commercial Crimes court sitting in Palm Ridge, Gauteng on Thursday.

The recent resignation of Riaan Swiegelaar from the Satanic Church of South Africa has sent shockwaves through the Satanic community and is a setback to the church. This is according to the former Gauteng Reverend of the Satanic Church Tristan Kapp who says the conversion discredits all the progress they have made so far.

The co-founder and reverend at the Satanic Church of South Africa has resigned from the organisation claiming that he has seen Jesus. Riaan Swiegelaar, who successfully registered the church as a religious organisation two years ago, said he resonated with the philosophy of Satanism as he was a broken person.

Algoa FM News understands that the three labour unions at the power utility have accepted Eskom's 7% wage hike offer. It ends two weeks of illegal industrial action, which forced the embattled power utility to take the unprecedented step of implementing stage 6 loadshedding.

Dozens of South African identity documents and passports, which were in the hands of foreign nationals illegally, have been rendered useless by the Department of Home Affairs. The department laid claim to at least 124 applications, 111 of which were passports and 13 IDs, that had been fraudulently processed using the particulars of South African citizens.