Lindile Sifile is a senior reporter for Sowetan

Stolen Mercedes-Benz helped lead police to alleged AKA killers

Rifle cartridges, muthi and matchsticks at the mouth of a petrol tank are some of the items police found in an abandoned Mercedes-Benz vehicle linked ...

Firm ordered to pay back profits gained under unlawful PPE contract

The Special Tribunal has declared the awarding of a R113m personal protective equipment tender to LNG Scientific invalid and unlawful.

Municipal manager instructs employees to wear black to mourn Buthelezi

Some employees at a KwaZullu-Natal municipality were stunned this week when their boss instructed them to wear only black clothes and doeks to work ...

Slain chief Mnisi was to be prosecuted as middleman in rhino poaching syndicate

The NPA’s case against Clyde Mnisi.

Historic Liliesleaf Farm museum closed after R8.1m 'unaccounted for'

The department of sport, arts and culture has revealed that it withdrew funding for the Liliesleaf Farm museum after its managers could not account ...

Owner of illegal 'home school' charged with fraud

An illegal school that had been operating from a house under the guise of providing home schooling has now been closed and its owner will also face ...

New law to tighten rite of passage, prevent initiation deaths

The government will now screen initiation school operators for criminal records and discourage the use of alcohol on the mountain, while imposing ...

Two teachers face criminal charges for raping pupil at Soweto school

The Gauteng department of education says it has opened criminal cases against two teachers from a Soweto school who allegedly took turns sexually ...

Free State MEC threatens court action to force municipal manager to go on leave

Free State MEC has vowed to drag embattled Mangaung Metro municipal manager Tankiso Mea to court next week and force him to take leave while his ...

‘Liam was naughty but didn’t deserve to be shot dead’

Roseline Siegel believes her son Liam Jevono, 14, would not have been shot and killed, allegedly by a security guard during the Mangaung shutdown ...