Protests over violence to mark the start of Women’s Month: The start of Women’s Month in South Africa will be marked by countrywide marches and pickets over violence again women, children and gender non-conforming people. ……
Source: WN.com – Southafrica News
#TotalShutDown movement calls on govt to bring down crime rate: Women and non-gender conforming individuals are due to march in Pretoria on Wednesday to raise awareness about abuse faced by women, children and the LGBTI community. ……
Source: WN.com – Southafrica News
Mazibuko alludes to double standards in DA handling of De Lille matter: Former Democratic Alliance parliamentary leader Lindiwe Mazibuko says in her mind, it’s unclear exactly what Patricia de Lille’s done wrong. ……
Source: WN.com – Southafrica News
WC Education MEC backs calls for army deployment to gang-ridden areas: Western Cape Education MEC Debbie Schafer’s spokesperson Jessica Shelver says the army should be deployed on a temporary basis. ……
Source: WN.com – Southafrica News
Outa calls on Treasury to probe alleged RAF maladministration: The Freedom Movement says that putting the Road Accident Fund under independent administration will be a start in tackling the fund’s R160 billion backlog in unpaid claims. ……
Source: WN.com – Southafrica News
Intermittent power cuts likely during Wednesday morning peak – Eskom: Cape Town – South Africans may experience another round of power cuts on Wednesday as Eskom warned the risk of loadshedding remained high for the morning peak. Eskom was forced to implement rotational loadshedding to deal with power constraints brought on by wildcat strikes by employees which disrupted operations at some power plants. “Customers are advised to keep checking their load shedding schedules on the Eskom and their municipal website, and plan on the assumption that load shedding will take place,” the state-owned power utility said in a statement on Tuesday night. African News Agency/ANA ……
Source: WN.com – Southafrica News
Mpumalanga rapist, 91, slapped with 12 life sentences: A 91-year-old man claiming to be a traditional healer has been slapped with a hefty 12 life sentences for rapes committed more than a decade ago. Mpumalanga police on Tuesday said Mdungwa Johannes Malinga was among four men who were sentenced to a combined 14 life sentences. “In the first sentencing, on Friday, 27 July 2018, the Carolina Regional Court sentenced 91-year-old Mdungwa Johannes Malinga to 12 life sentences for 12 counts of rape committed between 2006 and 2007. “The court heard…
Source: WN.com – Southafrica News
#TrainArson: ‘Painful’ wait before policing unit is deployed: The approval of 100 law enforcement officers to focus on rail commuter safety and to protect infrastructure goes before a City mayoral committee today. Expected to be deployed at the end of September at a cost of R48 million, they will have to help answer what mayoral committee member for transport Brett Herron calls the “R50 million question” – the cost of the recent spate of rail-related arson attacks. Who is the “sinister force at work” to destroy the railway system, Herron and everyone affected is asking. Perhaps the suspect who attempted to torch a train at Cape Town station on Tuesday can make their task easier by shedding light on who the mastermind is. According…
Source: WN.com – Southafrica News
#TotalShutDown: Women taking to the streets in the fight against GBV: Johannesburg – Women across the country were due to unite and take to the streets today in the fight against gender-based violence. #TheTotalShutdown will see thousands of women march in the country. While some are marching in solidarity with victims of gender-based violence, for others, tragic reality has hit home. Poet Mthokozisi Mazibuko said she lost her 54-year-old cousin, Yvonne Mzangwa, and her three young grandchildren in a fire in Rockville, Soweto on June 2. “From what we were told, my cousin and her grandchildren were in the house with her boyfriend. We do not know how the fire started, but we have…
Source: WN.com – Southafrica News
Grace Mugabe victim moves on, eyes career in film on graduating: While the world waited to hear what is to become of former Zimbabwe first lady Grace Mugabe’s diplomatic immunity saga, Gabriella Engels, the model she allegedly assaulted, has graduated, and has her eyes set on the film production industry. Mugabe was accused of assaulting Engels, now 21, at a luxury hotel in Sandton last year. The high court in Joburg…
Source: WN.com – Southafrica News
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