Domestic

The Provincial Commissioner of KwaZulu-Natal Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi has ordered a probe into unprofessional conduct by police officers who were caught by a CCTV camera assaulting a person during an operation in Durban.

A woman died at the King Shaka International Airport in Durban on Friday night, shortly before boarding a FlySafair flight to Johannesburg.

A former IEC Commissioner and current IEC official has been arrested on charges of fraud involving R1.2 million. Dr Nomsa Masuku, 62, who served as Commissioner in 2018 is a former employee of Standard Bank who was entrusted with managing the Corporate Social Investment Programme (CSI) "Adopt A School Trust".

The number of Mpox cases in South Africa has risen to 13 with the latest cases confirmed in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Soweto and three in eThekwini in KwaZulu Natal. Three provinces are now affected by the M-pox outbreak with two deaths recorded in Gauteng and Kwazulu Natal respectively.

The National Council of SPCAs said it’s considering the legal route to ascertain why hundreds of wildebeest are allegedly cooped up at an SA National Defence Force (SANDF) military base in the Free State. This followed what it said were “serious animal welfare concerns about the hundreds of overstocked Black Wildebeest” the organisation said were kept at the SANDF's Barney Molojoane School of Engineers in Kroonstad.

The South African Human Rights Commission says it is taking former Gqeberha ward councillor and Member of Parliament Renaldo Gouws to the Equality Court for his alleged hate speech and racist utterances.

The DA has suspended former NMB ward councillor and MP, Renaldo Gouws, after another video of him making racial comments surfaced on social media on Wednesday.

Three suspected poachers were killed in separate gun battles with rangers in the Kruger National Park.

Police have opened cases of intimidation after a large group of people tried to get access to a warehouse in Johannesburg where election ballot boxes are stored.