Author: Malebogo Putu
Two Zimbabwean nationals have been remanded in custody after appearing before the Mkhondo Magistrate’s Court on charges of dealing in dagga and contravening immigration laws. According to police, the duo were arrested on 04 December 2025 at about 20:35 on the N2 near Mahamba in Mpumalanga during routine crime-prevention patrols. Officers stopped a truck with two men on board and conducted a search, during which they discovered six big bags of compressed dagga at the back of the truck. The suspects, identified as Tinashe Chitsamba, 40, and Oscar Mutsetemari, 45, allegedly told police that they had travelled from Empangeni and…
Police in Free State have arrested six suspects shortly after a violent house robbery at a farm near Warden on Friday, 05 December 2025. According to Police, the incident began at approximately 08:30 when a 74-year-old farm resident was confronted by a group of unknown males while travelling along a dirt road on his property after refilling a tractor with diesel. The victim reported seeing his own white Toyota Hilux bakkie, fitted with a white canopy, being driven away from the direction of his farmhouse. SAPS stated that “five suspects approached the complainant, opened his vehicle door, and forcibly took…
Police in Limpopo province have arrested a 31-year-old woman suspected of murdering and dismembering her 42-year-old boyfriend and burying his remains in a shallow grave behind his home in Morutji Village, Bolobedu South. The mutilated body of Isaiah Thomas Maphalle was discovered on Thursday wrapped in a maize-meal sack after local residents raised the alarm and alerted authorities. Officers responding to the scene unearthed the shallow grave at the rear of the victim’s residence in the rural community near Tzaneen. Following a rapid investigation, police took Mr Maphalle’s girlfriend into custody the same day. Provincial police spokespersons confirmed the arrest…
President Donald J. Trump announced late Wednesday, 26 November 2025, that South Africa will not receive an invitation to the 2026 G20 summit, which the United States will host in Miami, Florida, and that Washington is immediately terminating all payments and subsidies to Pretoria. “The United States did not attend the G20 in South Africa, because the South African Government refuses to acknowledge or address the horrific Human Right Abuses endured by Afrikaners, and other descendants of Dutch, French, and German settlers. To put it more bluntly, they are killing white people, and randomly allowing their farms to be taken…
A matric learner from Schaumburg Combined School in Hartbeespoort has died from injuries sustained during a violent incident at the school last Thursday, the Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) confirmed on Monday. According to GDE Spokesperson Steve Mabona, the girl succumbed to her injuries on Sunday, 23 November 2025, after being struck by a scholar bus amid escalating unrest on the school premises. The department said it had received a report that “chaos broke out at Schaumburg Combined School when four boys allegedly entered the school through a fence at the back of the premises.” The intruders reportedly started a…
A regional court in Hanover, Northern Cape, has sentenced William Matheuws, 27, to life imprisonment plus an additional ten years for the rape of one five-year-old girl and the attempted rape of another, the National Prosecutions Authority said Monday. The attacks occurred on 12 August 2023. According to the NPA statement, Matheuws was with both victims when a neighborhood child alerted an elderly community member. Upon arrival, the elderly person who later became the complainant in the case, found the children, who described what had happened. The child who was raped was too traumatized to testify in court. The State…
President Cyril Ramaphosa says the first-ever G20 Leaders’ Summit on African soil must reflect the aspirations of both the continent and the wider global community. Opening the two-day gathering at Johannesburg’s Nasrec Expo Centre on Saturday, the President noted that while the G20 once focused mainly on macroeconomic issues, it now tackles a broad range of priorities including trade, sustainable development, health, education, science and technology, agriculture, energy and climate change.In his address this morning, the President said G20 countries understand that progress on all of these issues is a necessary condition for strong, sustainable, balanced and inclusive growth.“Through solidarity,…
The South African Minister of Health, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, commended the unwavering dedication of donor countries, the private sector, and philanthropic organisations that exemplified the virtues of multilateralism during the Eighth Global Fund Replenishment Summit. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB) and Malaria hosted its Replenishment Summit in Sandton, Johannesburg, on Friday, co-organised with the governments of South Africa and the United Kingdom on the margins of the G20 Leaders’ Summit. Despite one of the most turbulent geopolitical and economic years in recent history, global partners pledged US$11.34 billion to sustain the fight against AIDS, TB and malaria,…
President Cyril Ramaphosa has urged India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) leaders to reinvigorate South-South cooperation to drive inclusive economic growth, advance sustainable development and accelerate reforms to global governance institutions. “South Africa wishes that, as IBSA, we revitalise our interactions and renew our determination to advance our founding goals,”President Ramaphosa said on Sunday in Johannesburg. President Ramaphosa hosted India’s Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi and the President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio, at a high-level IBSA meeting on the sidelines of the second day of the Group of Twenty (G20) Leaders’ Summit taking place in Johannesburg. IBSA is a forum that brings together India,…
South Africa’s agricultural sector has achieved a major diplomatic and trade milestone, following the finalisation of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, a move expected to strengthen bilateral cooperation and unlock new opportunities for South African producers in one of Asia’s fastest-growing markets. The agreement was signed by Deputy Minister Nokuzola Capa and Vietnam’s Deputy Minister Nguyen Hoang Hiep, on Friday, ahead of the official opening on G20 Leaders’ Summit. It lays the foundation for expanded collaboration in crop production, plant protection, animal husbandry, veterinary services, research and development, technology transfer, and agricultural trade. The…