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A man convicted of murdering Fochville traffic warden Piter Eddy has been sentenced to 15 years’ direct imprisonment after stabbing him in the chest during an argument at a tavern.Johannes Fourie, also known as “Buda”, was sentenced for murder on August 27, 2026, and was further declared unfit to possess a firearm.Gauteng police spokesperson Colonel Dimakatso Nevhuhulwi said the murder happened on November 2, 2024, after Eddy had searched Fourie […]

A man convicted of murdering Fochville traffic warden Piter Eddy has been sentenced to 15 years’ direct imprisonment after stabbing him in the chest during an argument at a tavern.Johannes Fourie, also known as “Buda”, was sentenced for murder on August 27, 2026, and was further declared unfit to possess a firearm.Gauteng police spokesperson Colonel Dimakatso Nevhuhulwi said the murder happened on November 2, 2024, after Eddy had searched Fourie […]

A man convicted of murdering Fochville traffic warden Piter Eddy has been sentenced to 15 years’ direct imprisonment after stabbing him in the chest during an argument at a tavern.Johannes Fourie, also known as “Buda”, was sentenced for murder on August 27, 2026, and was further declared unfit to possess a firearm.Gauteng police spokesperson Colonel Dimakatso Nevhuhulwi said the murder happened on November 2, 2024, after Eddy had searched Fourie […]

The Acting CEO of Onderstepoort Biological Products (OBP) Dr Jacob Modumoh, as been placed on precautionary suspension following allegations of serious misconduct relating to the pricing of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) vaccines.Agriculture Minister Willie Aucamp confirmed the precautionary suspension instituted by the OBP Board after he convened an urgent meeting with the board on Friday, September 4, where he presented information relating to the allegations against the Acting CEO.“On Friday, 4 […]

An F-4 Phantom military aircraft crashed Saturday at a base outside Athens during an airshow, Greek news agency ANA reported.The circumstances of the crash were unclear, as was the fate of the two pilots aboard, local media said.The aircraft had just taken off when it suddenly lost altitude and crashed, said a journalist from public broadcaster ERT who was at the scene.There was an explosion immediately after the crash, which […]

Rescuers pulled a Nepali woman alive on Saturday from her home buried under thick mud and debris when the region was struck by massive flooding 10 days ago.Emergency personnel said earlier they had rescued a Chinese man found alive inside a tunnel of the Upper Trishuli-1 Hydropower Project in Nepal's Rasuwa district.Members of Nepal's Armed Police Force cheered as the mud-caked 64-year-old woman, Chandrika Shrestha, was pulled from her buried […]

More than R1.5 million worth of counterfeit sports merchandise and manufacturing equipment has been seized from a storage facility in the Johannesburg CBD ahead of the Springboks’ upcoming rugby clash against New Zealand.SAPS spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Amanda van Wyk said more than 1,700 counterfeit sports apparel and footwear items were seized during a multidisciplinary takedown operation conducted this week.The operation was led by the National Counterfeit and Illicit Goods Unit […]

When Bevan Campbell went to his grandmother’s home to pay his respects after she died on Thursday, he had no idea he would never make it home.The 26-year-old was shot in cold blood in Ibex Street, Helenvale, on Friday morning.He died at the scene.He was chased by his killers before they opened fire, police spokesperson Captain André Beetge said, in a suburb in the northern areas of Gqeberha that has […]

A judge declared a mistrial Friday after a jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict in the high-profile case of an American woman who killed her three young children.Lindsay Clancy, 36, acknowledged strangling Cora, five, Dawson, three, and Callan, eight months, but claimed she should be excused from criminal responsibility because she was suffering from postpartum psychosis.After seven days of deliberations, the jury of nine women and three men […]