Gauteng Health officials say they haven’t seen the police forensic report yet
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Zandile Mafe’s referral for psychiatric observation has been set aside and Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe has ordered that he be released immediately to a correctional facility.
Zandile Mafe appeared at the Cape Town magistrate court on Thursday morning before being taken in for observation.
The acting chief justice called on law enforcement agencies to take steps to prevent further such attacks on court facilities.
In the three-month period 6 163 murders occurred, a 20.7% increase from the same period last year, and 9 556 rapes were reported, a rise of 7.1%. The number of sexual offences was 11 964, up 4.7%
A classic bandit extortion strategy is to set homes and grain stores on fire to intimidate individuals into paying up.
Provincial government says it cannot deal with the magnitude of the damage to infrastructure alone
Whereas low-level looters may receive fines or community service, the masterminds will be dealt with ‘ruthlessly’, says prosecutions head
A report commissioned by South African National Parks has ruled out natural causes and negligence as reasons for the blaze
Fresh firefighting teams are expected to take over from the crews that battled the blaze throughout Monday evening
Authorities confirmed the fire had been largely contained by early Monday afternoon, although reports suggest the fire had jumped the road near Tafelberg Drive
This separate fire was not an extension of the Rhodes Memorial fire, according to authorities
The small Cederberg town saw its Moravian Mission Station, clinic and town hall destroyed over the weekend.
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Cape Town’s transport problems have reached a crisis point and officials are seeking solutions before the rail system breaks down
The fed-up university says destroying property is not going to help students gain a free education.
The twenty-fourth school in Limpopo has been damaged by arson, and teachers are too scared to report for duty at several of the affected centres.
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Readers write in about June 1976, vandalism, and job creation.
Burning stuff is a sad state of affairs considering the inroads made recently by protesting done right, writes Hansie Smit.
It is the fifth school to be torched in the area since January, but it’s unknown if this latest fire in Xigalo is related to the Malamulele unrest.
The inquest into Solomon Mujuru’s suspicious death could intensify party factionalism.
Two municipal buildings in Ficksburg were set alight by rioters on Thursday after the killing of a man allegedly by the police.
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Arson is suspected, but Australians must accept pollution and unbridled growth are firebugs too, writes Tim Flannery.
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/ 12 February 2009
Arsonists lit a wildfire that killed 21 people in Australia and are suspected of starting another that razed a whole town, police said on Thursday.
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/ 22 September 2008
Nobody has been arrested yet in connection with various arson attacks that damaged several buildings on the Mafikeng campus of North West University.