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The US state of Tennessee is set to execute a woman on Wednesday for the first time in 200 years, three decades after she murdered a classmate.Christa Pike, now 50, was 18 when she and her boyfriend beat and killed Colleen Slemmer, 19, at a job training camp for young people.The killing gained national attention after Slemmer's body was found with a pentagram, often seen as a satanic symbol, carved […]

A flydubai plane bound for Tel Aviv was forced to land in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday after an "incident", the airline said, with Israeli media reporting an altercation between the pilots.Flight FZ 1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv "experienced an incident while en route. The aircraft has landed safely in Tabuk Airport (TUU) and all passengers are safe and accounted for," the spokesperson for the low-cost carrier said in a […]

EFF leader Julius Malema has apologised to Judge Elias Matojane and the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) in the National Assembly over questions he asked the judge during JSC interviews in 2021.Malema was required to enter the apology after the Ethics Committee found that he had violated provisions of the Code of Ethical Conduct and Disclosure of Members’ Interests during the interview process.The matter relates to questions Malema put to Matojane, […]

Mpumalanga taxi boss, Joe “Ferrari” Sibanyoni returns to the commission on Wednesday after facing intense questioning over messages linking him to an alleged R500 million Moloto Road deal and claims about his influence over contractors.The focus centred on a message stating: “I have a R500 million deal for Moloto Road. The director who got the contract wants to meet up with you.”Sibanyoni told the commission on Tuesday that he did […]

Detectives were sifting leads Wednesday after a massive drug heist in Fiji, searching for dozens of cocaine parcels swiped from an evidence vault and replaced with baking flour.Better known for stunning beaches that draw tourists in droves, the South Pacific nation has become an unlikely stopover for cartels shipping drugs from Latin America into Australia.Fiji Police seized 39 bricks of cocaine in a 2019 raid, each weighing around one kilogram […]

The cause of a widespread power outage which left several areas across Cape Town in darkness on Monday evening is still unknown - but the City says it was not at fault. Areas including Table View, Parklands, Goodwood, Kraaifontein, Brackenfell, Plattekloof, N1, Edgemead, Table View, Big Bay, Elsies River, and Durbanville fell into sudden darkness from 6pm.The City of Cape Town’s Mayoral Committee Member for Energy, Alderman Xanthea Limberg, said the […]

Two Gqeberha shop owners, aged between 30 and 40, have been served with summons for allegedly contravening the Counterfeit Goods Act after the Hawks seized suspected counterfeit branded merchandise worth about R7 million.The two were served with summons and are expected to appear before the Gqeberha New Law Court on October 29.Eastern Cape Hawks spokesperson Warrant Officer Ndiphiwe Mhlakuvana said the Gqeberha Serious Commercial Crime Investigation (SCCI) unit had recorded […]

Broken lights, burst pipes, toilets that don’t work and ceilings pocked with gaping holes — this is the shocking state of the KwaZulu-Natal education department’s offices in Durban.Such is the state of disrepair that part of the ceiling in the women’s bathroom on the second floor of Truro House collapsed at the weekend.IOL visited the building, which houses the department's provincial head office and its Umlazi district office, on Monday. During […]

South Africans in several parts of the country are in for another spell of disruptive weather on Wednesday, with severe thunderstorms, damaging winds and flooding risks forecast across parts of the interior. At the same time, extremely high fire danger persists in sections of the Western and Northern Cape.The South African Weather Service has issued a Yellow Level 2 warning for severe thunderstorms over Gauteng, central to eastern North West […]