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But commissioners awarded the worker compensation because his employer fired him on WhatsApp and without proper consultation.

Western Cape police have launched a manhunt for the gunmen who shot and killed five people in the Endlovini Informal settlement in Khayelitsha in Cape Town. According to provincial police spokesperson, Brigadier Novela Potelwa, unknown gunmen approached a group of shacks in the early hours of Monday morning and opened fire.

The Civil Aviation Authority has suspended Comair’s Air Operator Certificate, a day after issuing a 24-hour precautionary suspension.

Transnet Pipelines said the alertness of its tactical response team prevented the theft of fuel from a Multi-Product Pipeline between Durban and Heidelberg on Saturday morning.

Western Cape Provincial Organised Crime Unit detectives are probing the kidnapping of a businessman in Parow on Wednesday morning.

Fourteen suspects involved in cable theft incidents, including a scrap metal dealer, were arrested in a swoop by a multi-disciplinary team in Mpumalanga.

Former Social Development Minister, Bathabile Dlamini has been found guilty of perjury in the Johannesburg Magistrates Court. Magistrate Betty Khumalo on Wednesday found that Dlamini had lied under oath during an inquiry into the social grants debacle instituted by the Constitutional Court back in 2017.

Police in Durban have arrested an alleged hitman involved in the murder of a man who was linked to Richards Bay Minerals (RBM). Police spokesperson Colonel Thembeka Mbele says 40-year-old Omega Khulani Ngubane was arrested during an intelligence-driven operation on Tuesday.

A 35-year-old man is in police custody following his arrest for being in possession of abalone with an estimated value of R9 million. Police spokesperson Brigadier Motlafela Mojapelo says the man was arrested after a crime intelligence team pulled over his truck on the N1, north in the Westenburg policing area.