The Swaziland Solidarity Network (SSN) is pleading with the Swazi royal house to call off the reed dance scheduled for today in memory of the 65 maidens, who lost their lives on Friday. The girls died in an accident when a large group of women were being transported on the back of a flatbed truck to the festival, and one truck crashed into the back of a car on the Mbabane-Manzini highway killing 38 girls on the scene, while 27 others later died in hospital. About 100 girls were injured, some as young as six, and some left without limbs after the accident.

Oscar Pistorius has been drawn into a top-level police probe into mobster Radovan Krejcir’s prison-cell dealings with the criminal underworld. According to the Sunday Times shocking details of Krejcir’s crime operations, apparently run from prison have been brought to light.

Reports suggest that the South African Air Force pays up to R400 000 per course for advanced training for its VIP pilots, but four of the six sessions it booked and paid for overseas, were cancelled this year at the last minute.

The Big Bang Theory star Jim Parsons has been named the highest-earning TV actor of 2015. The actor topped the Forbes list with earnings of $29m.

The Road Traffic Management Corporation says at least 34 people have been killed in two separate accidents in the Eastern Cape.

A man has been killed and woman seriously injured yesterday afternoon when their vehicle rolled multiple times on the R26 outside of Ficksburg in the Free State.

Rapport berig vandag vier van die ses gevorderde vliegkursusse vir die lugmag se BBP-vlieëniers is die afgelope jaar op die nippertjie gekanselleer – dit terwyl belastingbetalers reeds die $30 000-kursusgeld betaal het. Volgens die berig is die kursusse reeds ’n jaar vooruit bespreek én betaal, en is dit onwaarskynlik dat die lugmag die geld van bykans R1,6 miljoen sal terugkry.

Die koerant berig ook die Spoorwegveiligheidsreguleerder (RSR) het eergister sy voorlopige ondersoekverslag oor die onlangse Shosholoza Meyl-treinongeluk by Modderrivier in die Noord-Kaap uitgereik. Die verslag noem onder meer dat die data afkomstig van die Afro 4000-lokomotief, slegs in Spaans is.

Die burgerregtegroep Afriforum sê gemeenskappe moet self verantwoordelikheid neem vir hulle veiligheid, aangesien daar nie op die polisie alleen staatgemaak kan word om misdaad te bekamp nie.

Die jaarlikse Umhlanga Rietdans in Swaziland lei nie altyd daartoe dat die Swazi-koning vir hom 'n vrou uit die honderde meisies kies nie. Volgens die Swaziland Solidariteit Netwerk se Lucky Lukhele, woon meisies van so jonk as ses jaar die dans by.

President Jacob Zuma sal na verwagting vandag amptelik eenheid 6 van Medupi in Lephalale in Limpopo, aan die nasionale kragnetwerk koppel. Die eenheid sal 800 MW by die nasionale netwerk voeg.