AFRICA

Kenyan investigative reporter and TV anchor Victoria Rubadiri has won the 2020 BBC World News Komla Dumor Award. Rubadiri is a presenter with Citizen TV in Kenya, where she hosts the channel’s prime-time shows. She’s a multifaceted journalist in East Africa and has interviewed some of the leading names in …

Police arrested 44 people in KwaZulu-Natal at the weekend for attending a party. “On Saturday night, Winterton SAPS, SANDF, public order police and Okhahlamba Traffic Department conducted an intelligence-driven multidisciplinary operation in the Winterton central business district after information of a party that was taking place,” said SAPS KZN spokesperson …

watch the video below A policeman and a policewoman on Monday appeared in court accused of the premeditated murder of 16-year-old Nateniël Julies* of Eldorado Park. Scorpion Simon Ndyalvane and Caylene Whiteboy, attached to the Eldorado Park crime prevention unit, made a brief appearance in the Protea magistrate’s court in Soweto …

The Eldorado Park community is expected to come out in their numbers at the Protea magistrate’s court near Soweto on Monday as two police officers, accused of shooting dead an unarmed teenage boy, are set to make their first appearance. 16-year-old Nathaniel Julies was shot and killed in Eldorado Park, …

The number of COVID-19 deaths has exceeded the 14 000 mark in South Africa, after 47 more people succumbed to the respiratory disease on Sunday. Sixteen fatalities were reported in Gauteng, 11 in Mpumalanga, seven each in the Eastern Cape and Western, and three each in KwaZulu-Natal and Free State. “This …

An off-duty police officer was shot and killed in his car in Bethelsdorp, Port Elizabeth on Saturday night. According to police spokesperson Brigadier Tembinkosi Kinana, at approximately 11.15pm police officers in Bethelsdorp responded to a report of a shooting in Wallflower Street in Extension 33. “On arrival, the body of …

A hell-father has been arrested for allegedly defiling his 4 yrs old daughter for 3yrs and using scissors to cut her private part for ‘easy’ entry. The incident happened in Uyo, Akwa-Ibom State. The 38-Year Old man identified as Peter Sunday Etim was reported to have been molesting the 4-Yr-Old …

Brighto, Big Brother Naija Lockdown housemate, has been evicted from the reality show. He was evicted during the Sunday live eviction show. In a surprise twist, housemates were not allowed to save the least housemates put up for eviction Brighto has now become the ninth housemate to be evicted from …

South Africa’s ruling party officials have said President Cyril Ramaphosa will appear before an integrity commission to answer questions about a controversial campaign donation. But Jessie Duarte, a senior member of the African National Congress, did not specify when Mr Ramaphosa would present himself before the party panel. In a …

A manhunt is underway for suspects responsible for the murder of a 22-year-old woman in Mutsha Khwekhwe Location, Limpopo, on Saturday night. According to police spokesperson Brigadier Motlafela Mojapelo, residents alerted the Levubu police in the Vhembe District about the incident. “On arrival, they found the lifeless body of the …