Former Eskom Employee Jailed for 10 Years Over R1.8m Fraud

A former Eskom employee has been sentenced to an effective 10 years in prison for her role in a fraudulent scheme that caused the power utility to lose approximately R1.8 million.

The Nelspruit court sentenced Cinderella Thabisile Muropane on Friday, 2 October 2026 after a Hawks investigation uncovered a scheme involving fraudulent invoices and payments processed for work that had not been performed.

Muropane was employed at Eskom’s Nelspruit offices when the alleged fraudulent transactions took place.

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Three months ago, I published a paper documenting a gap almost nobody wanted to look at: South Africa’s IRP 2025 commits 6,000 MW of gas-to-power capacity to bridge a 9.5 GW electricity shortfall, and the plan tells you whether that capacity gets built on time — but says nothing about whether the fuel it depends on will be affordable, or how a fuel-cost shock would even be recovered [1]. I called it a compound vulnerability: two structural mechanisms —READ MORE

The Xitsonga music and broadcasting fraternity on Sunday gave Tiveka Foster “Mafosi” Chauke a final farewell, laying the celebrated broadcaster and music producer to rest amid an outpouring of grief and support from government officials, artists, colleagues, family and community members.

Mafosi, affectionately known as “Try by Force,” died on 26 September 2026 at the age of 49, leaving behind a legacy that stretched across radio, music and community service. He died from a car accident on hisREAD MORE

The Hawks have proposed R100,000 bail for each of two new accused in the sprawling deceased-estates fraud and money-laundering case, as the State continues to unravel an alleged trail of millions of rand moved through bank accounts, businesses and transactions linked to suspended Polokwane attorney Charlotte Tibana.

Risima Jeje Trading Enterprise director Jabulani Maluleke, 43, and LLB student Rirhandzu Tibana, the younger sister of Charlotte Tibana, appeared in the Polokwane Magistrate’s Court on Friday for their formal bailREAD MORE

Former ANC spokesperson Pule Mabe has lost his bid to stop civil recovery proceedings brought against him by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) over alleged irregularities in a R27.6 million waste management tender.

The Special Tribunal dismissed Mabe’s application to stay the proceedings against him and Enviro Mobi (Pty) Ltd, ordering him to pay the legal costs of the application.

The SIU welcomed the judgment on Friday, saying the tribunal had rejected Mabe’s argumentsREAD MORE

Pitso Mosimane believes Amajita’s back-to-back COSAFA Under-20 titles are evidence that South Africa’s football development structures are beginning to produce the next generation of players for Bafana Bafana.

Mosimane praised Raymond Mdaka and his young charges after they defeated hosts Mozambique 2-1 in Sunday’s COSAFA Under-20 final at ABB Stadium 1.

The victory secured another regional title for Amajita and also booked their place at the Africa Cup of Nations Under-20 tournament, continuing a run of successREAD MORE

Suspended Deputy National Police Commissioner Lieutenant-General Shadrack Sibiya will remain behind bars after his bail application was postponed to 7 October, as the State and defence continued to clash over allegations of witness interference, sexual offences and a newly added firearm charge.

Sibiya appeared before the Randburg Magistrates’ Court on Friday, where his legal team continued cross-examining the investigating officer, Sergeant Nokukhanya Ndlovu.

He is facing six charges, including rape, three counts relating to sexual grooming, humanREAD MORE

Benni McCarthy arrived in Kenya carrying an impressive football pedigree: Bafana Bafana’s all-time leading goalscorer, a UEFA Champions League winner with Porto in 2004 and a former Manchester United first-team strikers’ coach, but his tenure with the Harambee Stars has been overshadowed by a difficult start to the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying campaign.

Kenya are already guaranteed a place at the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations as co-hosts alongside South Africa’s neighbours Tanzania and Uganda, butREAD MORE

The procedure connected a surgeon remotely with a patient in Abuja, demonstrating new possibilities for advanced surgical care

Nigeria has performed its first tele-robotic surgery, enabling a surgeon to operate remotely on a patient in Abuja. The procedure involved a robot-assisted right radical nephrectomy to remove a kidney affected by a tumour and was carried out in real time using a robotic surgical console, reports News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), a partner of TV BRICS.

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People watch the sun rise in Fuyuan City, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, Oct. 1, 2026. People celebrated the 77th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China in various ways on Thursday. (Photo by Li Yonguin/Xinhua)

People attend a flag-raising ceremony marking the 77th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China at Wuyi Square in Fuzhou, southeast China’s Fujian Province, Oct. 1, 2026. People celebrated the 77th anniversary of the founding of theREAD MORE