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Here’s your daily news update for Wednesday, 14 May 2025: An easy-to-read selection of our top stories.
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News today includes the Gauteng police have opened an inquest into the death of an 11-year-old boy from Fleurhof, Johannesburg whose body was found on Wednesday after he went missing from home on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, South Africa’s electricity crisis has resurfaced as Eskom implements stage 2 load shedding during peak hours, despite recent assurances that the winter of 2025 would likely be load shedding-free.
Furthermore, there is mounting pressure for Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi to act against corrupt officials in various government departments.
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Inquest opened after body of missing Fleurhof boy, 11, discovered
The Gauteng police have opened an inquest into the death of an 11-year-old boy from Fleurhof, Johannesburg whose body was found on Wednesday after he went missing from home on Tuesday.
The Fleurhof community is demanding answers after Jayden-Lee Meek’s body was found early on Wednesday morning in the second-floor stairwell of his complex, Swazi’s Place. The boy’s body was reportedly still warm at the time.
“I want to let the person know that you will be brought to justice. It won’t bring him back but you will be brought to justice,” the boy’s tearful aunt told the media on Wednesday.
CONTINUE READING: Inquest opened after body of missing Fleurhof boy, 11, discovered
16 years after medical parole: Has correctional services kept an eye on Schabir Shaik’s ‘terminal’ illness?
The Department of Correctional Services has revealed extremely limited information about the monitoring of convicted fraudster Schabir Shaik’s health since his controversial medical parole release in 2009.
Minister of Correctional Services Dr. Pieter Groenewald recently responded to questions from the DA’s Michele Clarke regarding the oversight of Shaik’s medical condition.
When asked about the medical professionals who diagnosed and approved Shaik’s release, Groenewald cited privacy regulations as a barrier to disclosure.
CONTINUE READING: 16 years after medical parole: Has correctional services kept an eye on Schabir Shaik’s ‘terminal’ illness?
‘Lessons to be learned from Eskom setbacks’: Ramokgopa admits maintenance failures
South Africa’s electricity crisis has resurfaced as Eskom implements stage 2 load shedding during peak hours, despite recent assurances that the winter of 2025 would likely be load shedding-free.
The power utility announced the stage 2 load shedding on Tuesday.
Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa acknowledged that Eskom’s implementation of load shedding represents a failure, particularly in managing maintenance schedules.
CONTINUE READING: ‘Lessons to be learned from Eskom setbacks’: Ramokgopa admits maintenance failures
‘It’s a joke’: KZN detective guilty of plotting commissioner’s murder dismisses 10-year sentence
Former police detective Captain Roshanel Banawo has been found guilty of plotting the murder of Umzinyathi District Commissioner Major General Francis Slambert.
Banawo appeared in the Newcastle Regional Court on Wednesday, which found that he had conspired to kill Slambert.
The former police captain was sentenced to 10 years in jail. His defence asked for a wholly suspended sentence.
CONTINUE READING: ‘It’s a joke’: KZN detective guilty of plotting commissioner’s murder dismisses 10-year sentence
‘Political gaslighting’: Will Lesufi really fire corrupt officials?
There is mounting pressure for Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi to act against corrupt officials in various government departments.
This comes after a report by the Gauteng Ethics and Anti-Corruption Advisory Council (GEAC), discussed in the legislature on Tuesday, found that 150 Gauteng government officials are doing business with the state.
The report also reveals that 37% of Gauteng government senior officials have failed lifestyle audits conducted by the Special Investigations Unit (SIU).
CONTINUE READING: ‘Political gaslighting’: Will Lesufi really fire corrupt officials?
Here are five more stories of the day:
- Pre-1994 cops ‘were feared and respected’, some now ‘partakers of corruption and criminality’
- Graduation celebrations or cultural chaos? Expert weighs in
- JMPD takes action against illegal and unsafe delivery bikers, 10 foreign nationals arrested
- Why Chris Hani’s killer went free but Alison Botha’s rapists went back to jail
- MP claims Mashatile shooting used to justify VIP protection boost
Yesterday’s News recap
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