Blue-light controversy
Opposition parties are having a field day with a cop who apparently shot a tyre of a car that was a little slow to move out his vehicle’s way.
Opposition parties are having a field day with a cop who apparently shot a tyre of a car that was a little slow to move out his vehicle’s way.
The man involved in the the “blue-light terror” rumpus — social development minister Meshack Radebe — says the media has blown it out of proportion.
Ordinary citizens in KwaZulu-Natal who are growing increasingly tired of blue-light bullying on roads by politicians and other Ridiculously (self-) Important People appear to be taking matters into their own hands.
African National Congress president Jacob Zuma received a rousing welcome from the more than 5 000 people who turned out for his annual Christmas party in Nkandla on Friday where he was due to hand out presents to hundreds of children.
Locked security gates and the immobility of some residents as well as a suspected electrical fault all possibly contributed to the 12 deaths in a blaze on Tuesday night at one wing of a KwaZulu-Natal old-age home. One of those who managed to escape from the home is believed to be a 99-year-old woman.