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A 13-year-old boy was shot dead in Church Street in the Pietermaritzburg CBD on Saturday evening, KwaZulu-Natal paramedics said.ER24 spokesman Russel Meiring said paramedics responded to the scene after receiving reports of the shooting.“On arrival

A 38 year old man was shot and killed in Korsten, Port Elizabeth on Friday night.Police Spokesperson Warrant Officer Alwin Labans says Ricardo Vaaltyn was approached by two men who fired multiple shots at him.He died at the scene.Meanwhile an

Two suspended eThekwini metro councillors and the gunman they hired were convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment in the Durban ?High Court on Friday.Councillors Mduduzi Ngcobo, 52, and Velile ?Lutsheko, 57, and the 31-year old gunman

Body parts, luggage and airline debris have been retrieved from the Egyptair passenger jet that crashed into the eastern Mediterranean Sea while carrying 66 people, authorities said Friday.Wreckage, personal belongings, suitcases and

CAPE TOWN, May 20 (ANA) – President Jacob Zuma used his speech at the University of Fort Hare’s (UFH’s) centenary celebrations on Friday to lash out at those who claim that people resort to violent protest to attract government’s attention.“There

The PE gang task team has arrested a suspect for the murder of reputed gang leader Donovan "Staal" Berry who died in a hail of bullets earlier in May.Police spokesperson, Captain Sandra Janse Van Rensburg, said the 27-year-old suspect was one of two

Cigarettes look set to soon become a very hard sell in the UK, where new laws that came into effect on Friday mean packaging for tobacco will not only come in standard colours with standard fonts but will also be more than 50 percent covered by

PORT ELIZABETH, May 20 (ANA) – A bail application by murder accused Christopher Panayiotou based on an argument that new facts have come to light, was one again postponed in the Port Elizabeth magistrate’s court on Friday.Proceedings were meant to

LONDON (AP) — A convicted murderer climbed over a wall and wandered the grounds of Buckingham Palace while Queen Elizabeth II was at home, British prosecutors said Friday.Dennis Hennessy, 41, pleaded guilty to trespass during an appearance at