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1 week ago | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Michelle Banda |Freddy Mavunda
African Congress for Transformation (ACT) National Leader Ace Magashule Former Free State premier Ace Magashule has questioned whether the state fully understands the charges he and 17 co-accused face in the R255-million asbestos corruption case. “Is the state also sure that they understand the counts?” he asked yesterday when the charges were read to him in the Free State high court in Bloemfontein.
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1 week ago | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Michelle Banda |Veli Nhlapo
(CLR) chairwoman Thoko Mkhwanazi- Xaluva the commission investigating pastors in Braamfontein, Johannesburg. The Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities (CRL) Rights Commission has established a committee aimed at introducing a peer review mechanism to address misconduct and abuse at religious institutions.
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1 week ago | 
timeslive.co.za | Michelle Banda
Sithembiso Mdlalose makes an appearance at Palm Ridge magistrate's court on 76 counts of murder. To some people in Pongola, KwaZulu-Natal, where Sithembiso Mdlalose was born and raised, he is remembered as a churchgoer and maths wizard who used to tutor the neighbourhood children. In Gauteng, however, the 31-year-old has been accused of being the mass murderer who allegedly started a fire that killed 76 people at the hijacked Usindiso building in Joburg.
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1 week ago | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Michelle Banda
The Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities (CRL Rights Commission) says the Christian religious sector has been fraught with problematic behaviour and also suffers from a lack of proper oversight.
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1 week ago | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Michelle Banda |OJ Koloti
Sithembiso Mdlalose makes an appearance at Palm Ridge magistrate's court on 76 counts of murder. To some people in Pongola, KwaZulu-Natal, where Sithembiso Mdlalose was born and raised, he is remembered as a churchgoer and maths wizard who used to tutor the neighbourhood children. In Gauteng, however, the 31-year-old has been accused of being the alleged mass murderer who started a fire that killed 76 people at the hijacked Usindiso building in Joburg.
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1 week ago | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Michelle Banda
The Independent Development Trust (IDT), a state-owned entity that falls under the department of public works and infrastructure has been at the centre of allegations of mismanagement and procurement malpractice amounting to R836m relating to an oxygen plant project. The entity manages the implementation and delivery of critically needed social infrastructure programmes. Dean Macpherson, the department minister, has recommended that the IDT’s new board members undergo lifestyle audits.
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1 week ago | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Michelle Banda
Several houses built illegally along the edge of the Bloemhof dam in Bloemhof and Christiana in North West have been submerged after the dam overflowed, prompting emergency evacuations. “The affected houses in Christiana are literally under the water,” the mayor of Lekwa-Teemane, Sebang Motlhabi, told Sowetan. “[...]These people are not supposed to be building there.
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1 week ago | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Michelle Banda
Children were found in a 'torture camp' in Mpumalanga. Two pregnant teenagers were among 21 children rescued from a Mpumalanga “disciplinary camp” where they were allegedly being kept and tortured under the guise of instilling discipline in them. The facility in Evander, near Secunda, was discovered when one of the children escaped and informed the police. The children allegedly slept in tents.
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1 week ago | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Michelle Banda |Eugene Coetzee
After almost eight years of court appearances, pastor Timothy Omotoso and his co-accused were found not guilty in the Gqeberha high court. The National Prosecuting Authority's bungling of Nigerian televangelist Timothy Omotoso's rape case is an indication of broader “systemic failures” in prosecuting gender-based violence and femicide.
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1 week ago | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Michelle Banda
Boitshoko Ntshabele, CEO of Citrus Growers’ Association of Southern Africa. The Citrus Growers’ Association of Southern Africa (CGA) says the imposition by the US of a 30% tariff on SA’s exports to that country will hurt local citrus farms and the rural communities they support, and also result in job losses. Boitshoko Ntshabele, the association’s CEO, spoke to Sowetan about the effect of the new tariffs.
