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Minister’s son fined over drunken-driving incident

Siyabonga Nqakula was on Monday effectively given a sentence of a R10Â 000 fine or six months in prison on a charge of drunken driving. Nqakula’s father is Minister of Safety and…

Son of the safety minister guilty of drunk driving

Siyabonga Nqakula, son of the Minister of Safety and Security, was on Monday found guilty in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court on a charge of driving under the influence of…

State: Nqakula’s son guilty of driving under influence

Siyabonga Nqakula, the son of the Minister of Safety and Security, should be convicted on charges of drunken driving and reckless or negligent driving, the state told the Cape…

Minister’s son testifies in drunken-driving case

Siyabonga Nqakula, son of Minister of Safety and Security Charles Nqakula, dozed off behind the steering wheel of his mother’s car before landing up on the wrong side of the road…

Minister’s son in court over drunken-driving charges

Siyabonga Nqakula, the son of Minister of Safety and Security Charles Nqakula, will testify that he fell asleep at the wheel before a head-on collision, a Cape Town magistrate…

Cape writer freed on threat charge

A botched charge sheet on Friday led to the acquittal of a journalist who in May allegedly threatened to blow up the Cape Town premises of Radio Heart if his grievances were not…

Writer threatened to ‘blow up’ radio station

A journalist, furious because his stories had been rejected, stormed into a radio station’s premises and threatened to ”blow this place up” unless his grievances were aired.…

Writer in court over alleged intimidation

A music writer who demanded the right to vent his feelings on Radio Heart 104.9 about the rejection of a story he wrote concerning a black musician is to go on trial on a charge…

Nqakula’s son ‘smelled of liquor’ at accident scene

The son of Minister of Safety and Security Charles Nqakula smelled of liquor when he allegedly drove into oncoming traffic and caused a head-on collision earlier this year, the…

Charges dropped against alleged sex blogger

Kroonstad blogger Juan Duval Uys (39) stepped free from the dock of the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court on Friday, after a charge of crimen injuria, laid by Independent Democrats…