Johannesburg – Former leader of the Congress of SA Students Andrew Babeile has been arrested over his alleged involvement in the destruction of property belonging to the Naledi Local Municipality in North West during a protest this week.

Babeile, Lindwall Steytler, Handy Ntshotshoba, Mvuyo Ncobo and an unnamed man handed themselves over to the police on Wednesday night.

According to councillors and police, they destroyed municipal property and assaulted the municipality’s chief financial officer David Thornhill on Tuesday afternoon.

Babeile is no stranger to controversy. In 1998, he was found guilty of stabbing a white pupil with a pair of scissors at Warrenton High School, following an argument over race.

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Potchefstroom – The fight against stock theft progressed when Wolmaransstad police apprehended six men for possession of suspected stolen goats last week, North West police said on Sunday.

The arrests came after police were dispatched to attend a complaint about a suspicious vehicle seen parked along the R501 (Wolmaransstad-Leeudoringstad) road on Friday morning, spokesman Colonel Sabata Mokgwabone said.

“According to the information available at this stage, they found the car and questioned all six occupants of a Volkswagen Jetta,” he said.

They allegedly informed the police that they had run out of petrol.

Their vehicle was searched, and two goats were found inside the boot.

The suspects, aged between 21 and 49, were arrested for possession of suspected stolen livestock and were due to appear in the Wolmaransstad Magistrate’s Court on Monday.

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Johannesburg – Czech fugitive Radovan Krejcir was apparently planning to use the firearm found in his cell to shoot police officers escorting him to court in order to escape from prison.

Forensic investigator Paul O’Sullivan said he received information while he was out of the country about Krejcir’s alleged plot. He immediately alerted police.

“I warned them that the escape was planned for next week or upon his (Krejcir’s) next visit out of the prison at Zonderwater. I gave the ‘probability’ of an attempt as greater than 95 percent,” O’Sullivan told The Star on Sunday.

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Mbuso Mandela has allegedly sent a video to the 15-year-old girl he is accused of raping – in a move that could see him sent back to prison.

On Monday evening, a video recording of Mandela (24) was sent to the teenager on social networking site Snapchat, which, if found to have been sent by him, would be a direct infringement of his bail conditions.

In the video – subtitled Monday Missions, with four unhappy-face emoticons followed by another line of text: “Conditions of life…” – Mandela laments having to report to the police station.

In it, he says: “Again and again, it’s the same old thing. You know what I’m saying? F***ing bail conditions and s**t, mother f***ing dammit man.”
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The South African government has sent its condolences to relatives of the more than 700 Muslim pilgrims who were killed in a stampede near Mecca, in Saudi Arabia.

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Speaking at a Heritage Day celebration in Limpopo, Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa said indigenous knowledge was not a relic of the past but a vital part of South Africa’s future.

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The long wait for life-changing paediatric procedures is being alleviated as Red Cross Children’s Hospital continues its annual Weekend Waiting List Initiative.

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A large fire is burning on Devil’s Peak mountain, part of the Table Mountain National Park in Cape Town, SANParks says.

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