THEY fired 10 shots at him, but they all missed the target and he survived the ordeal. Then they went for him again. His crime? Khanyane Makailane, 34, from Ha-Lejone in Leribe, had allegedly hired a hitman to kill one Pitsi Mojammuso on suspicion that he had stolen his cattle earlier last week. The suspected […]
THE government could have lost over M13 million through dubious payments to Covid-19 quarantine facilities at the height of the pandemic. Apart from hotels and lodges being hired without following procurement procedures, some allegedly took advantage of the chaos to fleece the government of millions. They did this by invoicing the government for Covid-19 suspects […]
THE Juvenile Training Centre (JTC) says there has been a surge in the number of inmates convicted of sexual offences. Superintendent Mohlanka Lehloenya, the head of JTC, says nearly 70 percent of the centre’s inmates were convicted of sexual offences. This, Superintendent Lehloenya says, shows that more teenagers and young boys are committing sexual offences. […]
PARLIAMENT’S Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is set to quiz 40 civil servants over procurement rot that happened during the Covid-19 pandemic. Government secretary Thabo Moleko has called the civil servants to prepare for the PAC grilling “about the queries raised in the Auditor General’s report for the financial year that ended 2020 and 2021”. In […]