The relatives of illegal artisanal miners who are trapped underground in in a flooded mine shaft say that the authorities have failed to help them
Experts say the government must fund acid mine drainage clean-ups to protect the right of citizens to a healthy environment and clean water
Environmental watchdog says ‘direct link’ exists between government’s failure to enforce non-compliance against mining company and gang rape incident
One person was killed, while others were stripped naked and beaten by groups, who also barricaded roads and searched abandoned mines
The spectre of the July 2021 riots looms large over the events in Gauteng of the last few days, and, as always, xenophobia is disgruntled South Africa’s faithful companion
In the true crime docuseries “Devilsdorp”, Cecilia Steyn emerges as an entrepreneur of depravity who monetised white South Africa’s legacy of moral panic about Satanism
The Tracey family has, for three generations, ensured the sounds of Africa are not forgotten
The first in a two-part series by Thami Mkhwanazi.
This week: Life in the camps
Agri SA lashed out at the police for reporting inaccurate details to the media around the brutal shooting of a farm worker in Krugersdorp.
Details of the alleged murder were still vague.
White squatters are refusing to be relocated from a caravan park by the Mogale City council. Monako Dibetle reports.
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/ 28 January 2009
The case of the boy who allegedly killed a fellow pupil with a sword was on Wednesday transferred to the Johannesburg High Court for trial.
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/ 4 November 2008
Cutting a lone figure in court on Tuesday, alleged sword killer Morne Harmse smiled only when his family waved at him from the public gallery.
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/ 24 October 2008
The 18-year-old pupil who allegedly killed a fellow schoolboy with a sword was declared fit to stand trial by a court on Friday.
A pupil who is accused of killing a fellow schoolboy with a sword believes he was told by a ghost to become a satanist, a court heard on Wednesday.
Hundreds of mourners bid farewell to Jacques Pretorius on Friday, the boy who died in a sword attack at a Krugersdorp high school earlier this week.
The parents of Morne Harmse, accused of stabbing a fellow pupil to death with a sword, said that their son was a victim of bullying.
In an apparent Satanic ritual, a Krugersdorp matriculant arrived at school on Monday with several swords and allegedly killed a fellow pupil.
A matric boy stabbed a fellow pupil to death with a sword at a high school in Krugersdorp on Monday morning, Johannesburg police said.
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/ 15 January 2008
The bail applications of five people accused of murdering and robbing conservationist Franz Richter were postponed due to a power failure at the Krugersdorp Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday. Earlier, all five accused pleaded not guilty to the charges of murder and robbery with aggravating circumstances.
After struggling to find a voice in the post-apartheid era, South Africa’s Afrikaner population has latched onto an anthem about a long-dead general to express their identity. From Amersfoort to Zeerust, at bars and braais, Afrikaners from all walks of life are electrified when they hear the rousing: ”De La Rey, De La Rey, will you come lead the Boers?”
As Zimbabwe heads for key elections on March 31, South Africa continues to be a destination of choice for illegal migrants from Zimbabwe, who now number as many as two million, according to unofficial estimates. The government of President Thabo Mbeki openly admits that it is fighting a losing battle against the influx of Zimbabweans.
A man was arrested at an abattoir in Krugersdorp on Wednesday, after a man’s head was cut off with a knife and offered for sale for R10 000 for muti purposes.