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  • FILE: Deputy President David Mabuza follows sanitisation protocols as he assesses the Free State's response to the coronavirus outbreak. Picture: @PresidencyZA/Twitter

    WATCH LIVE: Mabuza faces tough questions from NCOP

    Mabuza will take oral questions from the NCOP on Thursday after postponing two previous appearances in the National Assembly due to ill health.

    630 days ago
  • FILE: Cosatu members. Picture EWN

    Cosatu to embark on general strike against corruption in the country

    This follows calls in several civil society movements for South Africans to rise against the unabated corruption in the public and private sectors which have undermined economic growth.

    637 days ago
  • Picture: UIF

    UIF opens fourth case of COVID-19 scheme fund abuse with Hawks

    UIF commissioner Teboho Maruping said a fourth case has been opened with the Hawks against a company, which received over R700,000.

    652 days ago
  • Finance Minister Tito Mboweni. Picture: GCIS

    Mboweni: As soon as we stated COVID budgets did thieves plan to loot

    Mboweni and Treasury officials appeared before Parliament’s finance committees on Wednesday.

    658 days ago
  • Former Eskom CEO Matshela Koko. Picture: EWN

    Former Eskom Group CEO Koko ‘looking forward’ to SIU summons

    The unit and Eskom have approached to the Pretoria High Court, seeking to recover funds from former board members, executives, members of the Gupta family and their associates.

    660 days ago
  • FILE: VBS Mutual Bank in Thohoyandou. Picture: Sethembiso Zulu/EWN

    VBS clients pin hopes on prosecutors to recoup lost money

    At least eight high profile people are due to be charged with racketeering, fraud and theft when some of them appear in court on Thursday morning.

    707 days ago
  • A money truck was bombed on 3 June 2020 on Kagiso Drive in Chamdor, Krugersdorp. Picture: @crimeairnetwork/Twitter.

    Kagiso residents who looted cash-in-transit heist scene facing charges - police

    A cash-in-transit vehicle was attacked by armed robbers in Chamdor on Wednesday morning, the suspects managed to flee with an undisclosed amount of money after using explosives to access the cash.

    722 days ago
  • Cash-in-transit robbery in Krugersdorp

    A group of suspects is alleged to have attacked a cash-in-transit van with explosives in Kagiso Drive in Krugersdorp. The suspects were reported to have escaped with an undisclosed amount of money. Cash was scattered on the road, leading to looting.

    722 days ago
  • FILE: Four people have been arrested and some goods were recovered. Picture: EWN

    Incidents of looting continue to plague various parts of Cape Town

    Police say about 15 people helped themselves to items valued at about R3,000 at a Shoprite Usave supermarket in Halt Road, in Elsies River, on Wednesday.

    764 days ago
  • People run away as a South African Police Services armoured vehicle drives into a street during clashes with residents of Tafelsig, an impoverished suburb in Mitchells Plain, near Cape Town, on 14 April 2020, after some people in the community did not receive food parcels which were being handed out as part of the support for this community during the nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. Picture: AFP

    Winde looks to law enforcement to help stop looting of stores

    Over the past few days, communities have looted trucks and stores in Cape Town. On Tuesday, several spaza shops were looted in Macassar, which a local councillor said that the action was fueled by hunger, saying food relief had not been distributed in the area.

    764 days ago
  • Justice and Correctional Services Minister Ronald Lamola. Picture: EWN.

    Tribunal probing billions looted from state to start work next week

    It will be headed by retired Judge Gidfonia Mlindelwa Makhanya and it's understood identified cases only were valued at over R14 billion.

    973 days ago
  • FILE: Ex-Minister of Defence and Military Veterans Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula. Picture: GCIS

    Mapisa-Nqakula: Almost 700 people arrested during attacks on foreign nationals

    Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said government moved quickly to restore law and order in the Joburg, Tshwane and Ekurhuleni CBDs and in KwaZulu-Natal.

    989 days ago
  • President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses the World Economic Forum Africa event at the CTICC in Cape Town on 4 September 2019. Picture: @PresidencyZA/Twitter

    DRC ambassador not at WEF due to transition in government

    Ambassador Ben Mpoko said they informed the South African government of their non-attendance much earlier.

    995 days ago
  • Violence erupts in Alexandra

    The streets of Alexandra township in Johannesburg was left in disarray after community members looted stores owned by foreign nationals before setting them alight.

    996 days ago
  • Violence runs rampant in Joburg

    Looting and violence continued to spread throughout Johannesburg as police attempted to clamp down on flare-ups. Click here to subscribe to Eyewitness news: http://bit.ly/EWNSubscribe Like and follow us on: http://bit.ly/EWNFacebookAND https://twitter.com/ewnupdates Keep up to date with all your local and international news: https://ewn.co.za Filmed and Edited by: Thomas Holder Produced by: Thomas Holder

    996 days ago
  • The fightback against looters in Johannesburg CBD

    Video footage of foreign nationals preparing to fight back against looters who have set stores alight in and around Gauteng has emerged on social media.

    996 days ago
  • FILE: ANC secretary general Ace Magashule at the post-NEC media briefing on Tuesday, 30 July 2019, at Luthuli House. Picture: Kayleen Morgan/EWN

    ANC slams JHB CBD violence as acts of criminality

    The unrest began on Sunday in Jeppestown and has now spread to areas including Turfontein, Ekurhuleni and Pretoria.

    997 days ago
  • ‘We fight fire with fire’ - Malvern violence devastates shop owners

    Violence erupted in Malvern on Sunday evening, resulting in the looting and setting alight of several shops.

    997 days ago
  • Police Minister Bheki Cele. Picture: @SAPoliceService/Twitter

    Arrest people who break the law, regardless of nationality - Cele

    Cele was reacting to Wednesday night’s looting of foreign-owned shops in some parts of Soweto.

    1015 days ago
  • A group of White City residents gathers near a news crew after some of the stores have been looted and two people killed. Picture: Katleho Sekhotho/EWN.

    Police to remain on high alert after deadly White City clashes

    Two people were shot dead earlier on Wednesday allegedly by business owners who were trying to protect their shops.

    1366 days ago
  • Police Minister Fikile Mbalula and Gauteng police commissioner Deliwe de Lange in Eldorado Park. Picture: Hitekani Magwedze/EWN

    [WATCH] Police Minister Fikile Mbalula: Enough is enough

    Gauteng police have arrested 73 people for looting and vandalism so far in Ennerdale, Lenasia and Eldorado Park with Police Minister Fikile Mbalula calling for an end to criminal activities during protests.

    1841 days ago
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