Domestic

Motorists will experience a slight relief at the pumps as all grades of petrol are decreasing by 12 cents/litre. The announcement was made on Tuesday by the Minister of Energy, Gwede Mantashe.

Three children and an adult died in a shack fire in the Marathon informal settlement in Germiston on Sunday evening.

Paramedics were at the scene of a bus accident in which more than 70 people were injured in Tinley Manor on KZN’s north coast on Monday morning.

Teachers’ union SADTU has strongly condemned the “anarchy” that ensued at a Workers Day rally in Rustenburg where President Cyril Ramaphosa was booed and the event eventually abandoned.

The National Prosecuting Authority has welcomed the sentence of 12 years direct imprisonment for theft of R1.2 million rand imposed on a financial adviser.

A company that charged the South African Police Service excessive prices for an urgent supply of 500 000 masks during the initial lockdown, has been slapped with an administrative penalty of R3.4 million. Tsutsumani Business Enterprises is the first case referred to the Competition Tribunal in the context of a tender process during the pandemic.

Eleven suspects have been arrested after stolen chrome worth R5 million was recovered in Witbank in Mpumalanga. Police Spokesperson Brigadier Selvy Mohlala says a multi-disciplinary task team, as well as officials from Transnet, took part in a sting operation on Thursday where they discovered self-storage offices packed with mining chrome.

A 42-year-old suspect is expected to appear in court on Friday after police raided a cannabis cultivating farm in the rural area of Ceres in the Western Cape. Police Spokesperson Zinzi Hani says the Hawks' South-African Narcotics Enforcement Bureau (SANEB) followed up on intel received about possible drug activity taking place in Bo-Swaarmoed.

An elderly man who is facing a charge of attempted murder for shooting at a couple who were fishing has been granted bail. Seventy-seven-year-old Paul Hendriks appeared briefly in the Lephalale Magistrates Court on Thursday where he was granted bail of R1 000.