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    TimesLIVE

    EXCLUSIVE | Hillary Gardee's suspected killer 'tortured' to implicate EFF's Floyd Shivambu — affidavit

    Lukhele claimed in his statement that police repeatedly electrocuted him and demanded that he admit to the crimes and said that Mkhatshwa had implicated him. They continued electrocuting me. He alleged officers stood on his neck and back demanding he admit to the killing and that when he again denied his involvement they took him to a toilet which he was made to sit next to, facing up, while an officer stood on his handcuffed hands and another poured water over this face with a bucket “demanding

  • News
    The Citizen

    Home Affairs official arrested for soliciting a bribe from foreign national

    The Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (DPCI), also known as the Hawks, have arrested a Home Affairs official soliciting a bribe from a foreign national. The 50-year-old suspect was arrested in Bloemfontein, Free State on Thursday following an operation conducted by the Hawks’ Serious Corruption Investigation team together with Crime Intelligence (CI).

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    TimesLIVE

    Occupants of taxi burn to death in horror pile-up on N3 in KZN

    The occupants of a fully laden taxi burned to death in a pile-up involving nine vehicles on the N3 in KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday. Netcare 911 spokesperson Shawn Herbst said paramedics responded shortly after 3am to reports of a collision on the southbound carriageway between the Peter Brown and Chatterton Road offramps in Pietermaritzburg.

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    The Citizen

    ConCourt shoots down Cele's bid to stop gun owners renewing their licences

    In a ruling which will be an administrative nightmare for the SA Police Service (Saps), Police Minister Bheki Cele has lost his bid to stop thousands of gun owners whose licences had expired from re-licencing their guns. Constitutional Court judges upheld the Supreme Court of Appeal's (SCA's) finding that the Firearms Control Act contained a mechanism by which a gun owner could regain lawful possession of a firearm as it remained the property of the gun owner.

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    Independent Online

    Parkwood mom of two who escaped kidnappers says she owes her life to a scrap collector

    When Achmat arrived in Southfield, she passed a parked car. The driver started the vehicle and proceeded to follow her. I then walked into another road and ran and that's when I realised I was in a dead-end road, and the car turned in that very same road,” she said.

  • Celebrity
    The Citizen

    Somizi vs Mohale: Another celeb boxing match on the cards?

    The fists and insults have been flying between Mzansi’s celebs recently, and estranged couple Somizi Mhlongo and Mohale Motaung currently find themselves in the ‘boxing ring’. Somizi has been shocking fans and viewers during every episode of his new reality television show Living The Dream with Somizi Season 5, without trying to sugar-coat his words. In the latest episode of Showmax’s hit reality TV show which aired earlier this week, the Idols SA judge celebrated his 49th birthday.

  • Business
    ewn.co.za

    NPA: Gupta associate Kuben Moodley received R74m from Transnet 'for no reason'

    JOHANNESBURG - The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) on Friday said its investigations in collaboration with the Hawks have revealed that Gupta-family associate Kuben Moodley received R74 million of Transnet money for no apparent reason back in 2015. Moodley was the first person to be arrested in connection to a dodgy Transnet transaction amounting R93.4 million in September last year.