A security branch officer employed at the infamous John Vorster Square police station, where political prisoners died during the apartheid era, spoke on Monday of the torture and turmoil his colleagues would put detainees through.
“Until such time as a proper investigation is completed and all consequential processes - which may include impeachment - are completed, judge president Hlophe cannot be allowed to exercise the powers of a judge.”
The DA said on Monday it will request an urgent investigation by the Public Service Commission into the appointment of Sibusisiwe Ngubane Zulu, health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize’s niece, as the department’s chief of staff.
A security branch officer who was stationed at Johannesburg's John Vorster Square police station said it was strange that uniformed police officers who usually patrolled and checked cells hourly failed to do so on the morning Dr Neil Aggett was found hanging in his cell
DA leader John Steenhuisen has sounded the alarm for South Africans over minister of health Zweli Mkhize's comments that the NHI will be run much like the financially strained and troubled road accident fund (RAF).
The Durban high court has dismissed an application by Mohammed Ebrahim, the man accused of killing Sydenham schoolboy Miguel Louw, to have the murder and kidnapping charges against him dropped
The department of water and sanitation has warned that any resumption of a total shutdown in QwaQwa, Free State, will frustrate government's efforts to get water back to the area.
The DA investigation has found "no conclusive proof" that Tshwane mayor Stevens Mokgalapa and his former MMC for roads and transport Sheila Senkubuge had sex in the office.
