The Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD) has confirmed that its fuel-card crisis has been fully resolved, with all cards now unblocked and functioning normally. According to the JMPD, the issue affected all departmental vehicles after fuel cards were suspended because of outstanding payments to filling stations. “The temporary blockage was not an internal JMPD issue, but rather an administrative matter at City level during a transitional arrangement between the City of Johannesburg and the service provider. “The JMPD emphasises that…

The Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) has been urged to take action against loan sharks who withhold people’s identity documents, potentially preventing them from voting on election day. Kim Medupi, a permanent delegate to the National Council of Provinces representing the North West, raised the concern during a visit to the IEC’s headquarters in Centurion, where a parliamentary delegation assessed the commission’s readiness for the upcoming local government elections. Medupi identified the North West as one of the provinces…

The partially decomposed body of a 25-year-old man has been recovered from a space between the ceiling and the metal roof tiles of a house in Moeketsane Street, Kwa-Thema, Springs. The City of Ekurhuleni’s Disaster and Emergency Management Services (DEMS) said its technical rescue teams from the Brakpan and Kwa-Thema fire stations worked together to retrieve the body on Friday. According to DEMS spokesperson William Ntladi, emergency crews were called out after paramedics approached the Brakpan fire station for assistance.…