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High ranking persons of the Hawks and a former commander of the AntiGang Unit (AGU) are among several senior police officers implicated in the murder of Lieutenant-Colonel Charl Kinnear.
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Transnet says test train initiative saw 106 000 tons of cargo moved by rail.
The forum said the Task Team has faded into oblivion without addressing the 11-point plan charted.
The SAHRC found that there was no direct evidence linking the incarceration of former president Jacob Zuma with the events of July 2021.
The Road Traffic Inspectorate (RTI) in KZN has confirmed that six trucks were torched by protesters on the N11 near the Amajuba Pass.
Speaking to the Daily News as the party gears for the policy conference next week, IFP president, Velenkosi Hlabisa, said there was absolutely no need to hire foreigners in these industries in the country since they were not scarce skills
Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga said the director of a company delivering food in schools in Sekhukhune said one of the reasons for the non-delivery of food was that his trucks were hijacked on the way to schools.
Early estimates have put the losses at R6 billion per day
Police warned travellers using the N4 in Mpumalanga heading to the Lebombo port of entry to postpone their trip as the truck and taxi violence is ongoing.
Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan is confident the Transnet board will address the business chamber’s concerns in its recommendations and in the feedback it is soon expected to present to shareholders.
The Reinsurance of Material Damage and Losses Amendment Act of 1990 was repealed in December 1998 and replaced with the Conversion of SASRIA Act 134, which intended to provide for the conversion of the South African Special Risks Insurance Association (SASRIA) into a public company, with a share capital, and for connected matters. SASRIA is a public enterprise listed under Schedule 3B of the Public Finance Management Act of 1999.
The bail application against five men who allegedly torched trucks in Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal, and Limpopo has been postponed to September to allow them to consult their representatives in preparation for bail applications.
Manufacturing activity in South Africa is expected to recover, at least partially, in August after falling further to its lowest in two years in July, dragged lower by transport delays due to the burning of trucks on the highways.
Law enforcement also found in their possession a signal jammer, blue lights, SAPS-issued firearms holsters, false government number plates and metro police uniforms.
President Cyril Ramaphosa said the deployment of the soldiers in hotspots after the burning of trucks will help in maintaining and law and order.
Police Minister Bheki Cele says in August he will table the progress report into the implementation plan of the Farlam Commission Report into the Marikana massacre and the Professor Sandy Africa Report into the July 2021 riots.
A video making the rounds on social media also showed one of the passengers having a brush with death.
By confronting the underlying issues, reckoning with social inequalities, and fostering unity and inclusivity, South Africa can navigate its way towards a brighter and more equitable future for all its people.
OPINION: Everyone in the Southern African region will suffer because the attacks on trucks is an attack on the transport infrastructure and will ultimately result in job losses and unemployment, writes Trevor Ngwane.
The party opened the charges at the Berea police station in Durban on Wednesday. Dianne Kohler Barnard, a DA member of the Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence, said the trucks that were destroyed were valued at R2. 5 million each.
The recent surge in truck arson incidents brings about a concern to the smooth functioning of the agricultural supply chain, particularly during a critical time when some horticultural crops are in season and summer grains are being harvested.
The union has noted with concern the burning of trucks in various parts of the country.
Pinetown police caught them with stolen tyres at the tyre fitment centre on Roger Sishi Road in New Germany on Sunday.