With the spotlight on South Africa’s security agencies’ ability to prevent terrorism following Wednesday’s bomb blasts near Johannesburg, the National Assembly on Thursday approved four bills to enhance the effectiveness of the intelligence services.
The African Union would be ultimately responsible for a comprehensive peer review mechanism, but until the necessary structures were in place, this task would fall on the New Partnership for Africa’s Development.
The African National Congress in the Western Cape said it ”appreciated the difficult step taken” by Premier Peter Marais in resigning his post pending potential criminal charges being laid against him.
The Democratic Alliance believes it is the victim of a major dirty tricks campaign and wants to meet Intelligence Minister Lindiwe Sisulu after a series of break-ins and theft of computers with confidential party information.
Security at the offices of former Western Cape director-general Dr Niel Barnard was upgraded after information that he might be on a hit list.
A boy’s innocent comment to his mother about sucking cheese off their boarder’s penis led to the boarder’s conviction on Thursday on two counts of indecent assault involving children
The Democratic Alliance on Monday called on the government to answer allegations made last week that South Africa was selling equipment used to develop nuclear weapons to Iraq.
Luyanda Mboniswa, the security guard accused of killing first lady Marike de Klerk, confessed his role in the murder to the investigating officer, the Cape High Court heard on Friday.
German fraud suspect Jurgen Harksen on Thursday recanted on earlier testimony to the Desai Commission, saying he had been mistaken about his reasons for cancelling a cheque for the Democratic Alliance.
”Teddy Bear” rapist Malcolm Egglestone who raped a teenage girl and kidnapped and indecently assaulted others should be jailed for a long time, the Cape Town Regional Court heard on Tuesdsay.
The stranding of the Jolly Rubino off the St Lucia estuary had led to claims totalling almost R15-million for one of Santam’s underwriting agencies, Associated Marine Underwriting Agency (Amua).
The office of Western Cape premier Marthinus van Schalkwyk has confirmed that a written threat against him by right-wing militants has been referred to the police.
A leading South African drug expert has called for the partial decriminalisation of dagga, and further debate on the way forward.
Four people including two children were shot and wounded by two gunmen in Lenton Road, Bishop Lavis in Cape Town on Wednesday, Western Cape police said
WESTERN CAPE MEC for local government Willem Doman on Sunday said the arrears in service payments to municipalities has to be addressed.
The Democratic Alliance in the Cape says it has ”taken a decision” on the findings of a party probe into provincial leader Gerald Morkel’s links with fugitive German businessman Jurgen Harksen.
The case against 12 Greenpeace environmental activists has been postponed until Friday for further investigation.
Nobel laureate and Northern Ireland politician David Trimble drew parallels on Thursday between the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin in the 1930s and Zimbabwe under President Robert Mugabe.
The difference a ”revitalised” South African Revenue Service (Sars) had made to the country’s economic landscape was remarkable, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said on Monday.
Jurgen Harksen promised an associate a contract to work on Cape Town’s convention centre in return for a donation to the Democratic Alliance, the Desai Commission heard on Wednesday.
Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Aziz Pahad on Thursday discounted any possibility of South Africa having supplied uranium to Iraq.
Western Cape gangs held more sophisticated
”bosberade” than the provincial government itself did, the Desai Commission heard on Thursday.
A consultant at the Waterfront branch of Rennies Travel Service, who allegedly stole R250 000 from her employer, told the Cape Town Regional Court she was a victim of a witchcraft scam.
The marathon trial of suspended police director Andre Lincoln (41) on theft and fraud charges allegedly involving R300 000, is drawing to a close.
Cape Town’s first city-wide, uniform rate for residents and businesses alike is to be an effective 1c in the rand.
THE level of crime in South Africa was gradually dropping, thanks to the sterling work of the police and the co-operation of the public, newly-appointed Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula told reporters on Tuesday.
Battered by claims that it received funds from alleged German fraudster Jurgen Harksen, the Democratic Alliance (DA) on Thursday appointed independent auditors Ernst and Young to conduct a forensic audit of donations to the party.
The number of people arrested in connection with diamond dealing in the Northern and Western Cape during the final phase of Operation Solitaire on Wednesday has reached 33.
Sixty government and wine industry delegates from Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, New Zealand, South Africa and the US attended the World Wine Trade Group (WWTG) meeting in Cape Town.
The Cape High Court has rejected a bid by alleged fraudster Jurgen Harksen to stay out of jail, ruling that German had never been under formal witness protection as he claimed.
Federal prosecutors in the United States were drafting a request to have one of the FBI’s most wanted criminals, a 27-year fugitive accused of a 1975 bank robbery and murder, extradited from South
Africa.
Diamond mining giant De Beers has hit back in its battle with Survival International, warning the organisation of ”serious consequences” should they continue to defame the company.