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Business cards are still an inescapable part of life for most Japanese workers, so it’s good to see the country’s largest carrier make the most of the situation with a phone that can fit right inside a card holder. The “card phone” KY-O1L is made by Kyocera and is coming …

AfriForum is to privately prosecute a “respected businessman” for the alleged rape of his 3-year-old granddaughter, saying that the legal system failed the child. The group announced that the head of its private prosecutions unit, advocate Gerrie Nel, will privately prosecute the man. The organisation said on Thursday that the …

Yesterday a 37-year-old man was arrested for two counts of murder. He was handed over to the police by his attorney. His arrest follows an incident that occurred on 14 October 2018 at Luganda area in Marianhill, where two men were assaulted and burnt with petrol. They were taken to …

Dogs were part of a key moment in human history – when our ancestors began trying their hand at farming. As the first farmers moved out of the Middle East, herding animals such as sheep and goats, dogs tagged along too, say scientists. The DNA evidence fills in some of …

The Bellville Specialised Commercial Crime Court sentenced a Cape Town lawyer to seven years in prison after he was convicted on two counts of fraud on Wednesday. Ignatius Marthinus Potgieter abused trust funds totalling R720 963 after two families entrusted him with their money. Arguing in aggravation of sentence, advocate …

The Johannesburg Metro Police Department have bust one of their own. On Tuesday night, a patrol officer was arrested by undercover officers after demanding a R1 000 bribe from a motorist in Parktown. JMPD spokesperson Wayne Minnaar said, at around 22:00, the officer stopped a motorist on the corner of …

The 43-year-old man arrested in connection with the disappearance of murdered schoolboy Miguel Louw is expected to appear in the Durban Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday, KwaZulu-Natal Police said. Mohammed Ebrahim was arrested three days after Louw disappeared on July 17. Louw’s body was discovered in abandoned bushes in Phoenix north …

More than four months ago the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) wrote to President Cyril Ramaphosa asking him to uphold a promise made in 2014 for a moratorium on farm evictions. Ramaphosa has not yet responded, GroundUp reports. In November 2014, Ramaphosa, who was deputy president at the time, …

One of the 19 men arrested in a case involving explosive devices being placed in and around Durban in July – which police believe is linked to the deadly mosque attack in Verulam in May – was granted R100,000 bail at the Verulam Magistrate’s Court this afternoon. The state also …

It has been reported that thirty-five instances of sexual abuse are currently under investigation by the Catholic church in South Africa. Precious Blood Sister Hermenegild Makoro, the secretary general of the Southern African Catholic Bishop’s Conference, told the Mercury newspaper that the cases relate to priests preying mostly on young …