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Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Police conducted an oversight visit of the police training college in Philippi, Cape Town ...

Ayesha Jacobs was shot in the leg while out on patrol with the Bonteheuwel Neighbourhood Watch nearly ten years ago. Photo: ...

Tyrone Ping is one of the authors of the paper: A new species of Dainty Frog (Anura: Pyxicephalidae: Cacosternum) and the ...

Meanwhile, the presentation by the Auditor-General’s office also revealed that only 20% of the department’s planned targets ...

Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) MPs pushed back against investigations into PRASA contracts worth billions of rands red-flagged by the ...

Thousands of RDP houses and an informal settlement with over 300 shacks in Kariega have been without tap water for a month now. Grandmother Siphokazi Hoyi was fetching water from a truck in ...

The Nerina Primary School marching band in Bonteheuwel, Cape Town, is in need of uniforms, equipment and funds to stay afloat. The marching squad started in May and has been preparing to compete in ...

A Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services report says hundreds of prisoners are held in solitary confinement and this ...

Dozens injured ...