SAHRC to continue Child Protection Week tour at Gauteng schools: The commission, along with the Justice Department, began the visits on Monday and activities will end on Sunday. ……
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MPs raise concerns over new hate speech bill: Justice committee chairperson Mathole Motshekga says they should be careful that the bill does not have unintended consequences like criminalising people over ‘moral issues’. ……
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Opposition parties reject City of Cape Town budget: The overall budget is R47.7 billion, with a big focus on upgrading informal settlements and basic services. ……
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[WATCH] SA Express CEO comes clean on R2.4bn fuel deal: Acting CEO at SA Express, Matsietsi Mokholo, has described the R2.4 billion fuel deal as a collapse of governance systems at the airline, adding that there was pure disregard for internal processes when the deal was signed. ……
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Tshwane police on high alert in wake of taxi violence: It’s understood the tensions are between two rival taxi associations fighting over routes from the Pretoria CBD to Atteridgeville. ……
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#CourtneyPieters ‘often left at home with no supervision’: Cape Town – State witness Pamela Scholtz broke down in tears when describing the grim discovery of slain 3-year-old Courtney Pieters who was found nine days after being reported missing in Elsies River. Scholtz was testifying at the Western Cape High Court where Mortimer Saunders stands accused of raping and murdering the child before…
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You have to be deceitful or else it’s not an affair, says Rohde: Cape Town – “You have to be deceitful or else it’s not an affair,” alleged wife murderer Jason Rohde said on Wednesday. This emerged when his character came under scrutiny in the Western Cape High Court on Wednesday. State prosecutor Louis van Niekerk quizzed Rohde on why he…
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Close call as bullet hits school staffer during robbery: A Lwandle Primary School staff member had a narrow escape after he was struck by a bullet that ricocheted during a robbery in which laptops, cellphones and an undisclosed amount of money were stolen. Police…
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How Sully Motsweni allegedly milked SABC: Johannesburg – Court documents have shown how a top SABC executive deceived their chief financial officer into bankrolling her family and friends’ travel and accommodation expenses, at a time when the public broadcaster was cash-strapped. Suspended SABC group sports executive Sully Motsweni’s alleged three-year spending spree began in April 2014 and ended in April last year. Motsweni, a former colleague of ex-SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng, allegedly duped the SABC into financing her relatives’ trips to attend company-sponsored events across the country, resulting in a loss of R45182. She allegedly used her position as the sports executive to get approval for the trips….
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Sex attack on infant of nine months – mom sought: The sexual abuse of a nine-month-old infant girl has come to light in Child Protection Week, and police are now searching for her mother. The child’s aunt said she discovered injuries to the baby’s genitals after the mother had left her in her father’s care (names are being withheld to protect the child). He told the Cape Times his daughter had been brought to him by the mother while he was at work on a Sunday afternoon, April 29. “I received a call from her that she was going to bring my daughter to me because she wanted to go out with…
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