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• News24 | Court steps in to curb taxi violence in Atlantis after deadly shootings

  The Western Cape government is hoping a court order will help bring an end to the violence and illegal taxi operations that have recently plagued Atlantis and the surrounding areas.

• News24 | Death toll rises to four after vehicle swept off bridge in KZN floods

  Two more bodies were recovered in uMsinga, KwaZulu-Natal, after a vehicle carrying eight occupants was swept away while attempting to cross the Infenebude Bridge.

• News24 | ‘ANC’s brand is corruption, crime and collapse’: Zille pledges to fix Joburg if elected mayor

  Elsie Seletisha from Ivory Park was one of the people who came to listen to Joburg DA mayoral candidate Helen Zille at a pledge launch to ‘get Joburg working’, if elected mayor of the city.

• News24 | It ‘will still take a while’: Army deployment to combat gang violence delayed, says Cachalia

  The military deployment promised by President Cyril Ramaphosa to combat gangsterism has begun in ‘some parts of the country’, but a full-scale rollout will ‘still take a while’, Police Minister Firoz Cachalia has said.

• News24 | Two bodies recovered after vehicle swept away in KZN floodwaters

  Two bodies have been recovered in uMsinga, KwaZulu-Natal, after a vehicle carrying eight occupants was swept away while attempting to cross the Infenebude Bridge on Thursday night.

• News24 | Saturday’s weather: Thunderstorms, heavy rain, strong winds to hit Mpumalanga, Gauteng, KZN

  Severe thunderstorms with heavy rain leading to flooding and damaging winds are expected in parts of Limpopo, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal, and Gauteng, according to the South African Weather Service.

• News24 | NSPCA charges Phalaborwa mother, son after dog dies due to prolonged neglect

  The National Council of Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has laid criminal charges against a Phalaborwa man and his mother, who were allegedly responsible for the death of a dog that endured approximately 14 months of prolonged and preventable suffering.

• News24 | Johannesburg emergency teams on high alert ahead of rain, severe thunderstorms

  Johannesburg emergency services teams are on high alert ahead of predicted heavy rainfall and severe thunderstorms in most parts of the city on Friday and into the weekend.

• News24 | REPORTING NOTES | Smith goes down – now Mantashe must face the same Bosasa music

  It has taken eight years, but the consequences of Bosasa corruption have finally claimed a significant casualty in Vincent Smith.

• News24 | Nine taxis torched at Nyanga rank as taxi war tensions simmer

  Nine taxis were set alight at the Nyanga taxi rank in Cape Town in the early hours of Friday morning amid ongoing tension in the industry in the Western Cape.

• News24 | Call me sergeant! Cape Town’s boot camp cop who helps keep kids off the street promoted

  When Sergeant Sinovuyo Seti pinned on his new rank at Mitchells Plain Police Station last week, the celebration extended far beyond the station walls. His family and the community were overjoyed.

• News24 | Man gets 20 years for rape, attempted rape of men at Pretoria shelter

  A 47-year-old Cape Town man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the rape of a man and the attempted rape of another at a shelter for homeless people in Akasia, Pretoria.