The death toll from the Katlehong North shooting has risen to four after two more victims succumbed to their injuries in hospital, following an attack that targeted a group returning from a memorial service for slain ANC and ANC Youth League leader Jeanette Magugu. The shooting, which occurred in Sophangisa Street on Monday evening, October 13, initially claimed the lives of two young men, aged 23 and 21. Five other people, aged between 12 and 27, were wounded when a…

An alleged Afrika Mayibuye member and candidate councillor has been arrested after a shooting that left two ANC Youth League (ANCYL) members dead and five other people injured in Katlehong North on Tuesday evening. The suspect, identified as Fani Sibeko, allegedly opened fire on a group returning from a memorial service for slain ANC and ANC Youth League leader Jeanette Magugu at Mogobeng Primary School. According to the South African Police Service (SAPS), the shooting occurred in Sophangisa Street at…

The ongoing parliamentary spectacle surrounding suspended National Police Commissioner General Fannie Masemola brings into sharp, unforgiving focus the fundamental design flaw at the heart of South Africa’s criminal justice administration. The ANC has proposed that Parliament’s ad hoc committee make an adverse finding against Masemola. Their grievance? That he failed to “resist” an allegedly unlawful directive issued by suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu regarding Crime Intelligence positions and the PKTT. In doing so, Parliament is attempting to enforce a textbook…

The EFF in Gauteng has welcomed the arrest of a second suspect in the murder of party member Monica Dube, but says the investigation must go beyond those allegedly involved in carrying out the shooting and establish who planned or commissioned her assassination. The party said the latest arrest was an important development but warned that the investigation should not end with the identification of alleged perpetrators. Dube, 44, a former EFF secretary in Tshwane’s Region 2, was shot dead…

Police have arrested a second suspect in connection with the murder of EFF member Monica Dube, who was shot dead at her home in Wallmannsthal, Tshwane, in June. The 39-year-old man was arrested by the Gauteng Political Killings Task Team (PKTT) on Tuesday evening following an intelligence-driven investigation, according to SAPS national spokesperson Brigadier Athlenda Mathe. The suspect is expected to appear in the Cullinan Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday, 7 October, where he will face a charge of murder. Dube,…

Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala’s wife, Tsakane Matlala, has been arrested in Pretoria in connection with an investigation into an allegedly fraudulent lease agreement for a luxury mansion in Waterkloof Ridge. Matlala was arrested on Tuesday and is being held at the Sunnyside police station, according to sources with knowledge of the investigation. Her arrest is linked to a controversial residential lease agreement reportedly worth R95,000 a month and involving a multi-million-rand property in the upmarket Pretoria suburb. She is the second…

Police have arrested an eighth suspect believed to be the alleged mastermind behind a syndicate accused of illegally connecting electricity and stealing critical infrastructure at the Emfuleni Local Municipality in Gauteng. The suspect, alleged fraudster Janitha van Reenen-Coetzee, was arrested by the Gauteng Political Killings Task Team (PKTT) on Thursday, shortly after she was released on R10,000 bail in an unrelated fraud case involving Emfuleni Municipality. Her arrest came as the Vanderbijlpark Magistrate’s Court postponed her fraud case to September…

Seven Emfuleni Local Municipality employees are expected to appear in the Vanderbijlpark Magistrates’ Court on Monday morning following a weekend arrest operation targeting an alleged illegal electricity reconnection scheme. The suspects, attached to the municipality’s Revenue and Electrical departments, face allegations of fraud, theft and tampering with essential infrastructure. Five of the employees were arrested during a takedown operation in Vanderbijlpark on Friday, while two more suspects were arrested over the weekend as investigators continued pursuing those allegedly involved in…

National Coloured Congress (NCC) leader and suspended Member of Parliament Fadiel Adams has questioned why he was arrested instead of being asked to provide a warning statement, saying he does not understand the decision to take him into custody. Adams made the remarks outside the Pinetown Magistrate’s Court on Friday after his case was postponed and transferred to the Regional Court for trial on September 11, 2026. The suspended MP faces charges of fraud and defeating the ends of justice…

The family of slain ANC Ward 17 councillor Sibusiso “Khekhe” Khwela has spoken of its heartbreak following his fatal shooting, describing him as the pillar who held the family together and a selfless public servant whose only mission was to help his community. Speaking at the family’s home in Durban on Friday, Khwela’s sister, Nana Khwela Dladla, struggled to contain her emotions as she recalled the moment the family learnt that he had been gunned down while serving residents at…