Update@Noon

Update at noon has exclusively learnt that Mandla Maphumulo (MAMPINTSHA) has spent at least one night at the Onomo hotel in Durban and checked out this morning. Earlier today National Police Commissioner General Khehle Sitole gave the assurance that the arrest of musician Mandla Maphumulo, who is known as Mampintsha is imminent. Our producer Aphiwe Honono called the hotel and was transferred to Ma...

Brigadier Vish Naidoo; Spokesperson for the National Police Commissioner, General Kehla Sitole says anybody can open a case on behalf of Babes Wodumo, however a statement from her is preferable. This after a video went viral showing the popular Wololo hit maker being beaten by musician Mampintsha. Naidoo adds that a senior police officer has been assigned to investigate. says the National Commissi...

The sister of Bongekile Simelane, whose known as Babes Wodumo - Nondumiso Simelane has confirmed that her Boyfriend and Manager Mandla Maphumulo - AKA Mampintsha did indeed assualt the artist. The video which has since gone viral on social media show Mampintsha slappng Babes Wodumo during what appears to be an argument between the two. Babes Wodumo appears to have strategically placed her mobile p...

The National Commissioner of the South African Police Service, General Khehla John Sitole, has instructed the Limpopo provincial police to mobilize the 72-Hour Activation Plan in the brutal killing of 27 year old Thoriso Themane. Themane was beaten up by a group of teenagers, aged between 15 &16 at a park in Flora Park suburb in Polokwane on Saturday. The perpetrators took a video of the incident...

Former property mogul, Jason Rohde, has been sentenced to 18 years in jail for the murder of his wife, Susan, in the High Court in Cape Town. She was murdered at the Spier Wine Estate near Stellenbosch in July 2016. Judge Gayaat Salie-Hlophe also sentenced Rohde to five years for obstructing the ends of justice.

Kwa Zulu Natal premier Willis Mchunu has been rushed off stage after taking ill while delivering his state of the province address. Mchunu had just taken to the podium but was rushed out of the venue.

Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane says Finance Minister Tito Mboweni was incorrect in defending Treasury DG Dondo Mogajane, by saying that he merely failed to disclose a traffic fine when applying for the DG post. Mboweni was speaking at a media briefing ahead of his 2019 budget speech. He said his department supported Mogajane and that he would take Mkhwebane's report on judicial review. Howeve...

Ajay Gupta is no longer a fugitive from justice. The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has confirmed his arrest warrant against him for corruption has been cancelled. This means he can return to SA without fear of arrest. We reached out to both the NPA and the Hawks for further clarity on this matter but they have both passed the buck to each other. The hawks have referred us to the NPA while t...

Over 80-million Nigerians are expected to vote for a new president, national assembly and state legislators this weekend. President Muhammadu Buhari is one of 73 presidential candidates! But over-shadowing the general elections is fact that Nigeria overtook India last year as the country with the most people living in extreme poverty - on less than R30 a day. And that's despite the fact that India...

Some South African are still shocked this afternoon following accusations by COPE leader Mosiuoa Lekota that president Cyril Ramaphosa gave information to the apartheid special branch about his comrades and that he was in turn rewarded by spending less time in prison. He said this happened during their arrest in 1976 as young anti-apartheid activists. Lekota made the claim during the debate on Ram...

The bodies of seven more illegal miners have been recovered at the Gloria Coal Mine in Middelburg. This brings the number of miners killed after being trapped under ground to 12. Bad weather conditions have hampered recovery operations. Mine rescue practitioner, Mike Elliot, says the process of pumping fresh air into the mine shafts will continue throughout the day. Fifteen more people are still b...

The National Union of Mineworkers says its shocked at the news of the unbundling of Eskom by President Ramaphosa. The unon, says the unbundling of Eskom will be an expensive exercise which will push Eskom further into debt. NUM further called on President Cyril Ramaphosa to dissolve the current ESKOM Board. NUM General Secretary David Siphunzi says their members are angry and they no longer guaran...

We speak to Thembi Nkadimeng, who sought to compel the NPA to make a prosecutorial decision in the 1983 murder of her sister, Nokuthula Simelane, by Security Branch officers reacts to TRC writing to President Cyril Ramaphosa urging him to institute Inquiry into "the political interference that has stopped the investigation and prosecution of virtually all the cases referred by the TRC to the NPA".

Former members of Truth & Reconciliation Commission have written to President Cyril Ramaphosa, urging him to institute Inquiry into "the political interference that has stopped the investigation and prosecution of virtually all the cases referred by the TRC to the NPA". They want President Ramaphosa to apologise to apartheid victims who have been denied justice. We speak to the Executive Director...

The ANC says it will study the recent High Court judgment that has reinstated the North West Provincial Executive Committee before it deals with the matter internally. Last year, the National Executive Committee deemed the PEC led by Chairperson Supra Mahumapelo unlawful and disbanded it. However, this morning Judge Fayeeza Kathree-Setiloane found that the ANC had been procedurally unfair in reach...

Former ANC North West Chairperson is due to be reinstated to the helm of that province's Provincial Executive Committee in the next two days. This follows a judgement in the High Court in Johannesburg today that declared that the decision by the ANC's NEC in August last year to disband the provincial structure was unlawful. Judge Fayeeza Kathree-Setiloane found that the ANC had been procedurally u...

The SRC at DUT is calling on management to attend to students' issues, including financial aid, accommodation and transport. Classes at UKZN, Mangosuthu University of Technology and the University of Zululand were also disrupted. Meanwhile, in Gauteng, the Wits University's students' representative council has condemned management for its use of private security. They say private security official...

Structural engineers are expected to brief the Department of Education on their assessment following the collapse of a walkway at Hoërskool Driehoek in Vanderbijlpark. A large cement walkway at the school caved in on Friday, killing three teenagers instantly and leaving more than 20 injured. Another pupil died in hospital on Saturday. The Department's Spokesperson Steve Mabona spoke to Leeanne Man...

The 10AM deadline has come and passed for Vodacom to respond to the #PleaseCallMe Movement's demands - for the telecommunications giant to resolve the stalemate with Nkosana Makate. Vodacom has been embroiled in a protracted legal battle with Makate, who was an employee of the firm when he thought of the 'Please call Me' idea. Meanwhile, the South African Police Service has blocked protestors from...

Former BOSASA employee, Richard Le Roux continues to spill the beans at the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture in Parktown, Johannesburg. ANC Chairperson and Mineral Resources Minister, Gwede Mantashe, has for the first time been implicated in the BOSASA scandal which is unfolding before the commission. He has been named in the 'Special Projects' box - along with ANC MP Vincent Smith and for...

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Trade union AMCU says its workers remain resolute even though mining company Sibanye Stillwater is refusing to accede to their demand of a wage increase. Workers in the gold sector have been on a two month strike following a deadlock between the parties. Members of AMCU working in the platinum belt have been given the go-ahead to embark on a sympathy strike which starts next week Tuesday. Their nu...

Social media and phone lines have been closed down in Zimbabwe as the national shutdown enters its second day. Three people have so far reportedly died after police allegedly used live ammunition while scores more have been injured. 200 others have been arrested. The protest has been sparked by a sharp rise in the price of petrol which in rand terms amount to R43/liter. Zimbabweans took to the str...

Thousands of black homeownwers have allegedly been overcharged by First National Bank (FNB). This is according to a Financial Investigator Emerald Van Zyl. Van Zyl insists that the home loan accounts were inherited by FNB when it took over the bond book of failed finance provider Saambou in 2002. He says he's been fighting these overcharges since he discovered his own bond had been miscalculated a...

Protests have erupted in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, following the staggering increases in the price of fuel this weekend. President Emmerson Mnangagwa says the increases are aimed at addressing a shortfall caused by increased gasoline demands and rampant illegal trade. In Rand terms, it costs over 43-rand to buy a litre of petrol. These Zimbabweans have expressed outrage, and are calling for...