Johannesburg faces water outages starting Friday, 13 December 2024 due to Rand Water maintenance. Areas like Soweto, Randburg, and Parktown will experience disruptions for up to 86 hours.
According to the family, Mngomezulu died in the early hours of Tuesday at Thelle Moroerane Hospital in Vosloorus, Gauteng.
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ACSA issued a statement confirming the disruption, attributing the issue to technical difficulties affecting the airport’s refuelling infrastructure.
The shooting occurred during school hours, and emergency services rushed the victim to a nearby hospital.
Police are still piecing together how Ismail allegedly orchestrated the events leading to her husband’s abduction while feigning her own kidnapping to mislead authorities.
According to investigators, Fatima allegedly befriended the suspect at a gym and plotted the kidnapping.
Eskom Gauteng confirmed the issue but has yet to provide an estimated time for restoration.
It’s believed the suspect is still at large and likely operates in and around the Randburg region.
During the raid, law enforcement officials uncovered more than 190,000 counterfeit and illicit items.
JMPD officers have been deployed to manage the situation and redirect motorists to alternative routes.
Law enforcement recovered several weapons, including an R5 rifle, a hunting rifle with a scope, and three 9mm pistols.
Preliminary investigations suggest that the employees provided inside assistance, enabling the theft of more than R3 million.
The official was under investigation by the Road Traffic Management Corporation’s national traffic anti-corruption unit and the Hawks – following allegations that he was involved in corrupt practices involving the fraudulent issuing of driving licences at the centre.
The City said it will be registering a case docket with the South African Police Service and ask them to escalate the matter to the Hawks.
During the operation the police arrested a 39-year-old Mexican national.
Keneilwe Shalaba has abandoned her bail application. The 32-year-old Boipatong resident is accused of trafficking her two-year-old son.
Large cocaine bullets packaged in a plastic belt and wrapped around her torso were discovered with officials estimating their street value to be at R1.8 million.
The City of Johannesburg region, in particular, will likely be struck the hardest by any aggressive intervention.
The state of the gold bars, irregular in shape, not neatly moulded or standardised like investment-grade gold bullion, suggests they were potentially smuggled from a refinery, or worse, produced by zama zamas (illegal miners).
According to the Joburg Roads Agency, routes on and around low-lying bridges were inaccessible due to floods.
On social media, videos have surfaced showing what appears to be a rotating column of air passing through a residential area in Randfontein.
The woman had initially reported that her son was kidnapped by three men in a silver-grey VW Polo on Wednesday, 13 November 2024.
The Unpaid Benefit Campaign, a group advocating for the release of withheld pension funds, will stage a march that will affect multiple streets in the area.
Reports from eyewitnesses suggest the man took his own life over a relationship dispute.
The suspect had flown into Johannesburg from São Paulo, Brazil, a known hotspot for cocaine trafficking.
Eskom warns Soweto residents about scammers targeting customers in meter upgrade queues, as the utility extends its prepaid meter reconfiguration deadline to accommodate “zero buyers.”
The fire was traced to the Uninterrupted Power System (UPS) in the plant room on the seventh floor.
The toxic substance is banned for household use and has been implicated in similar food poisoning cases across the country.
The boy’s family informed authorities that he displayed worrying symptoms after consuming a snack purchased from a local spaza shop.
