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Gauteng MEC for Roads and Transport Ismail Vadi was assaulted by metered taxi drivers in Johannesburg on Monday shortly after he announced that his department had started the process of issuing operating licences for Uber taxis.Vadi had just

 Murder accused Christopher Panayiotou will go on trial at the Port Elizabeth High court in October this year.Just more than a year since the murder of Jayde Panayiotou, the case against her husband Christopher and his two co-accused

Port Elizabeth police have arrested two suspects following a robbery on a plot in the Seaview area on Monday morning.Police said a businessman who works from home was confronted by five men wearing blue overalls, reflector jackets and gloves

Prof Jonathan Jansen will step down as Vice-Chancellor and Rector of the University of the Free State on August 31. The university said in a statement Jansen will take up an invitation as a Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral

A fake bomb discovered at Old Trafford stadium in Manchester, Britain, on Sunday halted a Premier League match before kick-off, causing mass evacuation and an abandonment of the game.Around 20 minutes before the scheduled start of the game between

The presidency on Sunday slammed media reports on the “imminent arrest” of Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan.“The presidency has noted the story in the Sunday Times alleging an imminent arrest of the minister of finance,” President Jacob Zuma’s

The arrest of Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan will be a disaster for South Africa and cause an economic earthquake and make “9/12” look like a minor economic tremor, the Democratic Alliance said on Sunday.“Rumours reported today [Sunday] suggest

Following its announcement on Saturday that no load shedding is expected to be necessary this winter, Eskom has provided further insight into its power generation mix and output capacity.“Eskom supplies approximately 96 percent of South Africa’s

A search operation conducted by Beaufort West police yielded a massive haul of mandrax tablets worth R10-million in the early hours of Sunday morning, Western Cape police said.“The seizure of 200,000 mandrax tablets that were transported in a bakkie