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A 27year old South African woman, Micaela Goeieman was allegedly shot d3ad by her boyfriend, Thabiso Lethabo, in front of their 6-month-old baby.   Micaela was laid to rest on Saturday, June 14, 2025.    Advocacy group, Women For Change, in a statement on Monday, June 16, disclosed that the incident occurred in the couple's home in Emndeni Extension 2, Soweto, on 4 June.    “It is alleged that the couple got into a heated argument before her boyfriend shot her in the head, k!lling her.    Lethabo, 34, allegedly called the police to the crime scene, where he later confessed to the murder. He was then arrested,” the statement read.   “Micaela leaves behind her 6-month-old baby and 7-year-old child. We are heartbroken over the loss of such a beautiful soul. Another sister was murdered. How many more until we declare GBV and femicide a National Disaster.”

Tsekiso Jonas Tshabalala, the  drunk South African policeman  who was arrested few months ago on charges of drinking and driving, and using a state car without authorisation has been dismissed from the police force.   The 39-year-old South African Police Service (SAPS) constable, who was found guilty in an internal disciplinary process, still faces charges of driving under the influence and using a car without permission.   The Provincial Commissioner of North West, Lieutenant General Sello Kwena confirmed the dismissal and also revealed that Tshabalala was officially dismissed on 26 January 2021 after an internal disciplinary process found him guilty of being fully uniformed and intoxicated.   

Demonstrators hold banners during a protest at the beach in Muizenberg against the government's ban on people enjoying the beach, in Cape Town on January 30, 2021. The ban is part of the South African government's Level 3 lockdown regulations due to the Covid-19 pandemic. (Photo by RODGER BOSCH / AFP) The ANC wants the police to arrest and charge the organisers of Saturday’s ‘deliberate’ breaking of lockdown regulations on some beaches in the province. Western Cape Premier Alan Winde has defended protesters calling for beaches to be reopened in the province. He said the ban was costing the Western Cape in excess of R100 million a month. Winde was speaking amid calls from the ANC in the Western Cape for provincial police commissioner Lieutenant-General Yolisa Matakata to order an investigation. The ANC wants the police to arrest and charge the organisers of Saturday’s “deliberate” breaking of lockdown regulations on some beaches in the province. The call comes in the wake of a p...

According to Saftu, since 2007, poor South Africans have been made to pay 500% more for electricity. For the union, Eskom’s CEO is perpetuating this narrative. Picture for illustration. Eskom workers remove illegal connections at Diepsloot in Johannesburg, 28 September 2020, during the launch of the energy management and loss campaign in Gauteng. Eskom removed illegal connections and equipment leading cause of network overlooking and repeated transformers and mini-substations. Picture: Nigel Sibanda The South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) has called for power utility Eskom to be held accountable for decades of mismanaged funds and consequential economic inequality, they said in a scathing statement released on Sunday.  Saftu said the most recent blow to the country’s power supply, in addition to load shedding threatening to hit in winter and continue into September, is “the firm’s use of a  pandemic-induced economic catastrophe  as an excuse to in...

Willem Hanekom and Tulio de Oliveira, The Conversation Until shown to be otherwise, it is reasonable to expect vaccines to be effective against 501Y.V2 as has been shown in clinical trials to date. Late last year the  Network for Genomic Surveillance in South Africa (NGS-SA)  led by the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform  (KRISP)  identified a rapidly spreading new variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The new variant, called 501Y.V2, raises critical questions – including whether current vaccines and treatments will still be effective. With the support of the  South African Medical Research Council  and the  Department of Science and Innovation , a group of leading South African virologists, immunologists, vaccinologists, infectious disease specialists and microbiologists has since formed a consortium to address specific scientific questions surrounding 501Y.V2. The knowledge they generate will be sha...

Former SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng is pictured during a press briefing in Johannesburg, 13 December 2018, announcing his new political party the African Content Movement. Picture: Refilwe Modise Disciplinary and criminal referrals are being pursued against the former SABC COO, the Special Investigating Unit told Scopa. The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has found sufficient evidence of financial irregularities at the SABC to initiate or join the broadcaster in civil litigation against its former chief operating officer, Hlaudi Motsoeneng. In a briefing to the standing committee on public accounts (Scopa), the SIU cited the awarding of a success fee to Motsoeneng, as well as appointments and salary increases awarded by him. It has also found evidence that indicated irregularities in the awarding of contracts to eight suppliers. The SIU said the investigation had produced evidence adequate for it to initiate or join civil litigation instituted in the name of the SIU and the SABC in 10 h...

Former SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng is pictured during a press briefing in Johannesburg, 13 December 2018, announcing his new political party the African Content Movement. Picture: Refilwe Modise courts 29.1.2021 10:20  Motseoeneng has to pay back the full amount with interest from the date of summons to the date of final payment. Former South African Broadcasting Corporation’s (SABC) chief operations officer (COO) Hlaudi Motsoeneng has been ordered repay R851,981.73 he used to fund for his personal legal process. This is after the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) and SABC had approached the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg in effort to recovering the legal fees paid to Majavu Incorporated by the public broadcaster when Motsoeneng was fighting a decision to set aside his appointment as COO.

The government is “deeply concerned” about vaccine nationalism, President Cyril Ramaphosa said during his address at the World Economic Forum’s Davos Dialogues on Tuesday. (Simon Dawson/Bloomberg via Getty Images) The government is “deeply concerned” about vaccine nationalism, President  Cyril Ramaphosa  said during his address at the  World Economic Forum ’s Davos Dialogues on Tuesday. “The rich countries of the world went out and acquired large doses of vaccines from the manufacturers and developers of these vaccines. And some countries went even beyond and acquired up to four times what their populations need,” Ramaphosa said, during the discussion on South Africa’s economic recovery plan from  Covid-19 . “And that was aimed at hoarding the vaccines. This is being done to the exclusion of other countries in the world that most need this.” He spoke about the government’s efforts to help acquire vaccines for African countries. To date, the Covid-19 Afric...

Zuma ordered  At fault: The Zondo commission has been criticised for showing Jacob Zuma leniency. (Photo by Foto24/Gallo Images/Getty Images) Former president  Jacob Zuma has run out of legal road to avoid testifying before the  Zondo commission  after Thursday’s  Constitutional Court order  that was handed down as the narrative of grand corruption he faces took a compelling turn into spy novel territory. There’s a lot more to this story. It pains us to say it, but good journalism costs money to produce, and so we have to reserve some of our stories for  Mail & Guardian  subscribers with paid-for levels of access to the site only. Like this one, for example. You can  subscribe to the  Mail & Guardian  and get access to all our stories and more at this link.  And this weekend, you can sign up for just R2 a month. If you have a current subscription, please login here.

A lab technician wearing a full body protection suit inspects a bottle containing growth media for virus production during coronavirus vaccine research at the Valneva SA laboratories in Vienna, Austria. (Photo: Akos Stiller/Bloomberg via Getty Images) South Africa’s first COVID-19 vaccines are on course to touch down at OR Tambo on Monday, but they won’t carry the security measures that could best protect them from criminals.   The one million AstraZeneca shots, that have been produced by and procured via the Serum Institute of India, will be given to frontline healthcare workers, so the vials are set to be transported to some public health facilities where theft of medicines has been prevalent.  The Serum Institute, as well as the national health department, has confirmed to Bhekisisa that the vaccines won’t be barcoded at all.  A source at the largest producer of vaccines in the world said: “The government of India compels us as a manufacturer to use se...

Nearly 200 doctors, 325 nurses and 200 other health workers are unemployed, according to Hire our Medical Heroes While Michelle Cerfontyne was completing her medical training in 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic overwhelmed SA’s understaffed public hospitals, so the young doctor thought she would get a job easily. But when she started applying for posts prospectively in September, there seemed to be no vacancies. Since then, a second wave of the coronavirus in SA has far outstripped the first, hitting 20,000 daily cases earlier in January and bringing hospitals closer to breaking point. Yet Cerfontyne’s 10 job applications have all been rejected. Nine did not give her an interview. Cerfontyne is one of scores of newly qualified junior doctors and hundreds of other medical staff unable to find placements, despite staff shortages in a pandemic that has killed more than 40,000 people, the highest toll in Africa. “I’m not used to sitting ... doing nothing,” she said. “The fact th...

The filing season deadline for provisional taxpayers who file their returns online, has been postponed from Friday 29 January, to 15 February. SARS says this is due to the “traumatic” fall-out from the pandemic. Taxpayers who don’t make the deadline, will face fines. For more articles, go to  www.BusinessInsider.co.za . The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has extended the online filing deadline for provisional taxpayers from 29 January to 15 February due to the pandemic “The decision to extend the Filing Season, was taken with due consideration of the traumatic effects being experienced by taxpayers who have lost loved ones, as well as businesses who have lost staff, during the devastating second wave of Covid-19,” said SARS Commissioner Edward Kieswetter. He urged taxpayers who received auto-assessment notices last year but who have not yet accepted the assessments, or have not submitted a response, to keep to the deadline. Provisional taxpayers who have not filed by 15 Febru...

IMAGE COPYRIGHT GETTY IMAGES image caption Ms Mapisa-Nqakula's salary will be put into a fund to help fight coronavirus South Africa's president has docked three months of the defence minister's pay after she allowed governing party officials to fly on an air force plane to Zimbabwe with her on 9 September. Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula was accused of misusing state resources for party political business. The defence force had argued she was on official business and had simply given the other passengers a lift. But President Cyril Ramaphosa called it an "error of judgement". Ms Mapisa-Nqakula had been travelling to Zimbabwe's capital Harare for a scheduled meeting to discuss regional issues. The delegation from South Africa's governing party - the African National Congress (ANC) - was meanwhile going there for crisis talks with Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF party aimed at helping tackle the country's political and economic woes. But opposition politicians we...