Author: Malebogo Putu
Rustenburg’s Executive Mayor Councillor Mpho Khunou and Council Speaker, Councillor Sheila Mabale-Huma who were among the leadership of the Municipality to undergo Covid-19 testing have received their results, as negative. The Municipality said in a statement that the tests were necessitated by the numerous test results which came out positive for numerous contacts the Executive Mayor and Council Speaker had interacted with, since the President declared a nation-wide lockdown in late March 2020. The Municipality have on Thursday 25 June 2020, announced that two employees from the Speaker’s and Budget and Treasury offices were in self isolation after testing positive…
Police found an AK 47 assualt rifle with a loaded magazine and ammunition; three different pistols and four magazines plus hoardes of ammunition for both 9mm and 10mm pistols; and scores of ammunition for R1 and R5 rifles. Police in Gauteng have arrested a 37-year-old suspect for possession of unlicensed firearms and ammunition. Police said in a statement that the arrest is a success in their mission to recover weapons used in the commission of serious and violent crime. According to the statement, Police received information about a suspect that was keeping unlicensed firearms and ammunition. On Thursday, 25 June…
Alex van den Heever, University of the Witwatersrand; Imraan Valodia, University of the Witwatersrand; Lucy Allais, University of the Witwatersrand; Martin Veller, University of the Witwatersrand; Shabir Madhi, University of the Witwatersrand, and Willem Daniel Francois Venter, University of the Witwatersrand As the lockdown is relaxed, South Africa’s focus should now be on how best to suppress the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus using other strategies. Policy should be informed by understanding the spread of the virus both in terms of the main mechanism of transmission (respiratory particles) as well as in terms of the connections that result in spread…
34 People have to date tested Positive for Covid-19 within the Municipality, 4 have since recovered The Moses Kotane Local Municipality Covid-19 Command Team / JOC held a meeting on management and combating Covid-19 locally. On Thursday, 25th June 2020, The Local Command Team comprising of Representatives from various stakeholders, held a meeting to further strategize on combating outbreak of Covid-19 within Moses Kotane Precinct. Various stakeholders were each given a chance to report their plans as well as progress to date. The report tabled were as follows: Mass Screening The Local Command Team has noted with satisfaction that most organizations are embarking on…
With incidents of gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF) sending shockwaves throughout society, Deputy President David Mabuza says the time for talk is over. Now is the time for action. Responding to oral questions in the National Assembly on Thursday, Mabuza said government is implementing several measures, from legislative amendments to programmes aimed at tackling GBVF head-on. “The Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities is in the process of consultations with civil society formations to engage and forge a roadmap for the establishment of the National Council. “Notwithstanding the need for broad and intensive consultations, we are confident that…
Deputy President, David Mabuza outlined some of the measures when fielding questions from the MP’s. Deputy President David Mabuza says government has put measures in place to support farmers as a result of persisting drought conditions. The Deputy President said this when he fielded questions in the National Assembly on Tuesday. Ahead of government declaring a National State of Disaster due to the Coronavirus pandemic, the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, declared South Africa a national disaster area on 4 March after considering the impact of persisting drought conditions in many parts of the…
Information was followed up after a suspect apparently approached the owner to sell the gas cylinders. The owner informed the police and he agreed with the suspect to buy the gas cylinders. The arrest followed after Nyanga Serious and Violent Crimes Unit acted on information about gas cylinders that were stolen during a hijacking incident on 22 June 2020 in Browns Farm. According to Police, the driver was en-route to Khayelitsha to deliver gas cylinders when he was approached by three suspects who pointed him with a firearm. They robbed his cellular telephone and drove away in the truck with…
The station will open on Saturday 27 June 2020, meanwhile community can access service through mobiles placed in front of the station Kuruman police station in the John Taolo Gaetsewe District had to be closed for 24 hours as the building was being decontaminated after one member attached to the station tested positive to COVID-19. According to Police statement, the said member has been placed under quarantine. Other members who came into close contact with the member have been isolated. The decontamination process will be finalized today, Friday 26 June 2020 and the Police Station will be fully operational from…
The preliminary investigation revealed that those arrested today, aged 24 and 28, are wanted in connection with several business robberies in both the Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces. Police in Limpopo have arrested Four suspects linked to filling station and Police robbery which happened on Sunday 21 June 2020 in Apel near Lebowakgomo. The National Commissioner of the South African Police Service, General Khehla John Sitole has welcomed the arrest of the four. According to Police, the Limpopo Provincial Police implemented the 72-hour Activation Plan immediately after the attack on four police members who were on patrol at the Apel shopping…
Members of the Family Violence Child Protection and Sexual Offences Unit in Kimberley arrested a 21-year-old male suspect in connection with the rape of a 19-year-old female. According to Police, the victim was standing at the hiking spot along N8 road, crossing of Airport and Greenpoint on Thursday. The suspect threatened to shoot the victim and forced her to the nearby bushes where she was allegedly robbed of her cellphone and raped. The victim screamed for help when she saw people on horseback. They tried to give chase and he ran away. Police followed up on information and the suspect…