Author: Motlhaping Modise

Former Interpol Ambassador, Strategy and Security expert Andy Mashaile said South African law enforcement agencies will have to double their efforts in devising a crime prevention strategy to address the growing concern of human trafficking in Lombardy East, Gauteng and across the country. This follows the discovery of more than 30 Ethiopian nationals in a house in Lombardy East on Wednesday, where it’s suspected they were kept against their will. Gauteng police said they’re investigating a case of suspected human trafficking and looking for the owner of a house. Police spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Mavela Masondo said that SAPS members found…

The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) said that it has received 40 representations of political parties on why they shouldn’t be deregistered from its political party register. According to the IEC, the said parties failed to renew their registration by the end of January this year. As the country’s registrar of political parties, the IEC ten days ago issued a notice of cancellation of registration of inactive political parties in the country. The electoral body warned that 192 inactive parties had until 24 March 2025 to make “compelling representations on why they should remain on the IEC political party register.” The…

The Young Communist League of South Africa (YCLSA) at Moses Kotane District in the North West, has urged its mother body, the South African Communist Party (SACP) to contest the 2026 local government elections independently from the alliance leader, ANC.The league’s Provincial Secretary Mogale Matsose II told You FM Newshour that decision was taken at the Provincial 6th Congress Committee Fourth plenary meeting that was held over the weekend in Stilfontein near Klerksdorp. “We believe that regardless of the difficulties ahead, it is important for the SACP to contest the local government elections for the sake of the working class…

The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) is embroiled in a scandal involving allegations of widespread fraud, with a recent revelation shaking the agency to its core. An official from a Johannesburg local office, who had been evading capture, voluntarily surrendered to authorities at the Kliptown Police Station on Sunday, accompanied by her legal representation. This marks a significant development in a case that has seen multiple officials implicated in illegal activities targeting social security funds. With the new surrender, the total number of SASSA officials suspected of various fraudulent activities has risen to eight. This follows the recent arrest…

The North West Premier Lazarus Mokgosi said that significant strides have been made to curb the spread of Tuberculosis (TB) in the province. Mokgosi was addressing the provincial World TB Day commemoration in Tshing Township in Ventersdorp in the JB Marks Local Municipality. “Today we are gathered as a province united in our commitment to a course that affects millions across the world, the fight against TB. This is a day which marks Dr. Robert Koch’s ground-breaking announcement of the discovery of the bacteria responsible for TB in 1882, however more than a century later TB remains a global healthcare…

The South African Policing Union (SAPU) has rejected Police Minister Senzo Mchunu’s decision for two critical units within the South African police service (SAPS) to be disbanded. Briefing parliament’s Joint Sitting of Portfolio Committees on Police and on Agriculture, Mchunu said the two are the Inspectorate and Police Killing Units, and their resources in terms of funds and personnel will be redirected where their much needed. “We said the National Police Commissioner (General Fannie Masemola) must look at phasing out or even disbanding this unit called Inspectorate, so that we release funds and that capacity to some of these priorities…

Parliament’s Joint Portfolio Committees on Police, Mineral and Petroleum Resources have welcomed the Departments efforts to recoup state incurred monies in a rescue mission to retrieve illegal miners who were trapped at the disused shafts 10, 11 and Margaret owned by Buffelsfontein Gold mine in Stilfontein near Klerksdorp in the North West. About R3,5m was spent to rescue 240 illegal miners who were brought up alive, and 93 corpses of trapped miners from the mine shafts between January and February after the police had for months blockaded it. Most of the rescued and arrested illegal miners were illegal immigrants from…

The North West MEC for Community Safety and Transport Management Wessels Morweng said an impasse that led to the shutdown of some parts of the N12 at the Dr. Kenneth Kaunda District, has successfully been resolved following a lengthy meeting with the regional SANTACO leadership and other stakeholders in Stilfontein. The district includes three local municipalities, JB Marks in Potchefstroom, City of Matlosana in Klerksdorp and Maquassi Hills in Wolmaransstad The protest was provoked by long-standing issues with the province’s permit board. The traffic flow was severely impacted when trucks and minibus taxis were used to blockade the busy N12…

Police in Rustenburg, North West, are investigating a case of culpable homicide, reckless and negligent driving against a truck and a light motor vehicle drivers, who caused a harrowing accident on Nelson Mandela Drive on Sunday morning.According to the Rustenburg police spokesperson Sergeant Ofentse Mokgadi seven pedestrians, believed to be employees of a nearby hospital were on their way home from work, were injured while one died at the scene. “Preliminary reports suggest that both the truck and the car were traveling in the same direction when the truck swerved sharply to the left to avoid the vehicle. In the…

The political landscape in the Ditsobotla Local Municipality is fraught with tension as the African National Congress (ANC) Provincial Executive Committee (PEC) in the North West has reaffirmed its commitment to the appointment of councillor Molefe Mohurutshe as Executive Mayor. This declaration stands firm despite a challenging ruling from the North West High Court, which acknowledged another party councillor, Mazwi Moruri, as the rightful executive mayor, alongside the council speaker and the acting municipal manager. In the wake of a turbulent fortnight characterised by power clashes between competing ANC factions, Mohurutshe was elected executive mayor amidst conflicting claims of legitimacy.…