ActionSA has signalled that a coalition agreement with the Democratic Alliance (DA) in Johannesburg remains possible, but the party is standing firm against Helen Zille becoming the city’s next mayor. In a proposed compromise, ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba has offered to withdraw his own mayoral ambitions if Zille also steps aside, paving the way for the DA to nominate another candidate. The proposal was contained in a letter Mashaba addressed to DA leader Geordin Hill-Lewis as negotiations over the city’s…
Wiandre Pretorius, a 41-year-old former Ekurhuleni police reservist implicated in serious corruption and murder allegations at the ongoing Madlanga Commission of Inquiry, died by suicide on Saturday evening at an Astron Energy petrol station in Brakpan. The incident, captured on CCTV and witnessed by his partner and a friend, occurred just days after Pretorius survived an alleged hit on his life, where assailants fired 16 bullets into his vehicle at his Boksburg home. According to operations manager Shaun Mim at…
Wiandre Pretorius, a 41-year-old former police reservist implicated in the ongoing Madlanga Commission of Inquiry, has died in an apparent suicide at a filling station in Brakpan, east of Johannesburg. The incident occurred on Saturday night, where Pretorius allegedly shot himself in front of his fiancée and a family friend following an argument, with a video of the event circulating on social media. This tragic event comes just days after Pretorius survived a brazen assassination attempt on Thursday, during which…
Two VIP Protection Officers assigned to the Madibeng Local Municipality Mayor in the North West, have been granted bail of R20 000 each by the Pretoria Magistrates’ Court on Friday. Thabang Sohole and Michael Makampe are facing charges of murder, defeating the ends of justice and operating a vehicle with blue identification lamps on an unauthorised vehicle on a public road. According to the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) the incident occurred on 28 January 2026 when the deceased, Sergeant Michael Swanton,…