JUST IN | Four dead, five others injured in shooting at KwaMashu men's hostel
Al Jama-ah’s Thapelo Amad has been elected the new executive mayor of Johannesburg.Phalatse was ousted in a motion of no confidence on Thursday. Amad was voted in with the support of an ANC-led coalition.Deputy president David Mabuza has engaged President Cyril Ramaphosa on his intentions to resign and make way for newly-elected ANC deputy president, Paul Mashatile.
"The one truck rear-ended the other. On arrival, members found paramedics already busy with the driver, who suffered slight injuries. Gauteng police spokesperson Brigadier Brenda Muridili said the official was robbed at around 11:00 while running errands with a friend. Shops and roads in Komani in the Eastern Cape were closed on Thursday morning after frustrated residents took to the streets to protest over poor service delivery.Eastern Cape police spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu confirmed the protest, which she said started in the morning.
On Wednesday, Hawks spokesperson Zinzi Hani said the victims were held hostage and badly tortured in a house Phillipi East, allegedly by the suspects. Officers from the Rapid Rail Police Unit and the Provincial Investigations and Tracking Task team conducted an intelligence-driven operation in Seaview, Durban, and cornered the 35-year-old suspect at a house on Braid Avenue, police spokesperson Colonel Robert Netshiunda said on Wednesday.
The 43-year-old man allegedly used his police officer twin brother's service pistol to shoot the 53-year-old victim, said police spokesperson Captain Hazel Mqala. Police were alerted to the bodies on Monday morning at around 06:30. They found a silver VW Polo"riddled with bullet holes", said police spokesperson, Brigadier Tembinkosi Kinana.
Two flights were delayed on arrival after a private aeroplane veered off the main runway at the Cape Town International Airport on Monday. Taxi owners in Cape Town have helped a driver escape from police custody at the Hout Bay police station. This was while police were busy with a crackdown on illegal taxis.
The men were travelling in a vehicle and had just entered NY6 at around 17:50 when they came under fire from unknown gunmen. The gunmen fled in another vehicle, said Potelwa.The third man died later in hospital. The motive for the shooting is yet to be determined, added Potelwa.Human rights lawyer Thulani Maseko was shot outside his home in Mbabane on Saturday night.
Siyaya's truck crashed into a bakkie that was transporting school children. The court denied him bail because they deemed him a flight risk. Police spokesperson Brigadier Athlenda Mathe said the pair were patrolling around the airport in their vehicle when four men accosted them. The High Court has ordered that the review application brought by Ramaphosa against former president Jacob Zuma's private prosecution case will be set down on 17 and 18 May.Fifteen pupils were injured after a truck ploughed into their classroom in Cosmo City in Johannesburg on Wednesday morning.
Hawks spokesperson Colonel Katlego Mogale said officers received intelligence that an armed gang was planning to rob a truck carrying electronic devices.
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