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Prisoners stabbed
JOHANNESBURG - The Correctional Services Department is investigating an incident in which 14 awaiting trial prisoners were stabbed and wounded in one of the cells at the Durban Westville prison. The incident is said to have happened on Friday morning. It is alleged there was an altercation between the new and old prisoners. The National Commissioner Makgothi Thobakgale says the prisoners used broken glass from a window to stab each other.
“They treated seven of them and another seven were treated externally. All of them are back in the centre, we don’t have any fatality but what we wanted to understand is what is the root cause because these offenders are remanded.”
Sudanese lions relocated
JOHANNESBURG - Eleven lions that were rescued from the war-torn Sudan in January have found a new home at the Lionsrock big cats sanctuary in Bethlehem in the Free State. The lions were among the 47 wild animals that the international animal welfare organisation Four Paws rescued from two national parks in Khartoum in November last year. This morning, Four Paws released the lions into their new home.
Charges dropped
JOHANNESBURG - Charges of murder have been withdrawn against Johannesburg-based Police Sergeant Nonhlanhla Ngubo (42), who, along with her boyfriend, Captain William Manku (53), and Mozambican national David Khoza (40), were arrested last month in connection with the killings of Manku’s wife and his 70-year-old mother-in-law. The trio - Ngubo, Manku, and Khoza - faced the Lebowakgomo Magistrates Court earlier this week, charged with two counts of murder following the May 2021 deaths of the Limpopo woman and her daughter in Makgoophong village, Limpopo.
JOHANNESBURG - Democratic Alliance (DA) leader John Steenhuisen has sent a clear message to the party’s opposition about the upcoming election saying they are gunning for a win.
Steenhuisen was addressing thousands of supporters gathered on the lawns of the Union Buildings in Pretoria on Saturday as they launched their election manifesto.
He said in previous elections since 1994, everyone knew that the African National Congress (ANC) would win, the only question being by how much, however the opposition party leader says in this election, for the first time ever, the DA has a clear path to victory.
Demise
“As we speak, MK is devouring millions of ANC votes. And the ANC only has one man to blame for its demise: Cyril Ramaphosa, who, for decades, did everything in his power to enable and protect Zuma. Ramaphosa even freed over 15 000 criminals just to keep Zuma out of prison.
The very same Zuma is now helping to evict Ramaphosa from the Union Buildings behind me. The demise of the ANC has opened the door for the DA to achieve what was once considered unthinkable: to enter national government.”