Jonisayi Maromo

Journalist

‘His brains were on the floor’: Soweto mum demands answers after her son dies in police custody

Jonisayi Maromo|Published

Thapelo Modise’s mother Susan told IOL that when she saw her son’s lifeless body, he was sitting in a chair in the police station, but his brains and blood were ...

Mom, 56, and her 40-year-old son gunned down at their home

Jonisayi Maromo|Published

Police were notified about the shooting incident and rushed to the scene, where they found the 40-year-old son lying down in a pool of blood inside the house, with ...

President Ramaphosa welcomes bid for arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas leaders

Jonisayi Maromo|Published

Ramaphosa said South Africa’s intervention at the International Court of Justice seeks to restrain Israeli action and to protect Palestinian civilians and non-combatants. ...

Stolen goats in Mercedes-Benz: Four men arrested in Limpopo for stealing goats

Jonisayi Maromo|Published

Provincial police spokesperson, Colonel Malesela Ledwaba said after a high-speed chase, the Mercedes-Benz was intercepted and the two stolen goats were found in ...

Suspect out on bail among two more arrested for murder of five-year-old Ditebogo Phalane

Jonisayi Maromo|Published

During the arrests on Monday, two unlicenced firearms were found. The Hawks believe one of the guns found, is the weapon used in the murder of Ditebogo Phalane Junior. ...

Mom reports teenage son after finding him assaulting 10-year-old cousin

Jonisayi Maromo|Published

In court, the 19-year-old Zimbabwean boy asked to be released on bail, stating that he is still a learner and further incarceration will affect him negatively, and ...

PICS: Bail denied for eight Nigerian nationals accused of assaulting SAPS members, damaging police station

Jonisayi Maromo|Published

The NPA said the case was postponed to 18 July and the eight accused will appear in court from prison through utilization of an audio-visual remand system (AVR). ...

LOOK: Two drivers killed in Ekurhuleni crash involving 11 vehicles

Jonisayi Maromo|Published

EMPD spokesperson Thabiso Makgato said two of the people who died in the horrific collision were drivers of the two of the 11 vehicles involved in the crash.

War crimes: ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ...

Jonisayi Maromo|Published

Prosecutor Khan said on the basis of evidence collected and examined by his office, he has reasonable grounds to believe that Benjamin Netanyahu bears criminal responsibility ...

Police failed me dismally: Pretoria woman in road spiking incident says she frantically tried to stop police cars

Jonisayi Maromo|Published

Lucy Tleane said after hitting the spikes and continued driving, she saw different marked police cars and tried to signal them to stop, but the SAPS cars just faded ...

Despite fake qualifications, woman earned more than R1,2 million working as a teacher

Jonisayi Maromo|Published

Trouble started for Ntombelanga Labane when a whistle-blower who knew that the woman never passed matric reported the matter to the Public Service Commission offices ...

‘They were making noise’: Serial rapist, aged 24, slapped with three life terms, plus 65 years behind bars

Jonisayi Maromo|Published

In the first incident, Xolani Sebothoma confronted a group of women and accused them of making noise, before he grabbed one victim, dragged her to an RDP house and ...

Man sentenced to 15 years imprisonment on charges of kidnapping, murder, and dramatic escape from custody

Jonisayi Maromo|Published

After Polosho Milimi was arrested, he went out with police to find an accomplice but during the event, Milimi and an accomplice escaped by driving away in a police ...

Court stalls as Congolese man accused of scamming policewoman of lifetime’s savings wants interpreter

Jonisayi Maromo|Published

The policewoman receiving her pension money when she resigned from SAPS and she withdrew R500,000 and gave it to a man who vanished, and she transferred other money ...

Victims of robbery behind bars for kidnapping alleged scammer behind fake Facebook adverts

Jonisayi Maromo|Published

Five Zimbabwean nationals responded to a Facebook advert and drove to Klerskdorp where they were robbed by people purporting to be police, but they later kidnapped ...

Nurses robbed of their groceries, cellphones, clothes and money at Jane Furse Hospital in Limpopo

Jonisayi Maromo|Published

The group of robbers got away with items worth R70,000 including three mobile phones, Huawei notebooks, groceries, clothes and an undisclosed amount of money.

China insists it will not compromise on Taiwan, and thanks South Africa for upholding one-China policy

Jonisayi Maromo|Published

Chargé d'affaires of the Embassy of China in South Africa, Li Zhigang said seeking foreign support to gain independence for Taiwan is a dead end, and there is no ...

‘Let us celebrate’: Eskom marks 50 days without load shedding but warns that darks days are not behind us

Jonisayi Maromo|Published

Eskom board chairperson Mteto Nyati said the power utility has a generation recovery plan that it has been implementing over the last year but it will take another ...

Two men and a woman pretended to be customers before robbing cellphones shop in Limpopo

Jonisayi Maromo|Published

Limpopo police said two men entered the shop, accompanied by a woman and the three pretended to be customers before showing staff a gun and demanding money.

Dad on parole arrested in Limpopo for allegedly raping his 20-year-old biological daughter

Jonisayi Maromo|Published

Limpopo police said the 20-year-old woman was taken to the nearest hospital on Tuesday, for a medical examination and medical experts confirmed that she was raped. ...

Teenager in police custody after a three-year-old boy was raped in a Limpopo village

Jonisayi Maromo|Published

The toddler left home and went to play at neighbours’ yard to play but when he came back, he told his his grandmother that a 16-year-old boy, who is a friend to ...

‘We’re dealing with fools who are not sophisticated’: Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi says no fire power will be spared to ...

Jonisayi Maromo|Published

Lesufi said if the government can fully deploy its resources, without being territorial, the ‘fools’ tormenting communities across Gauteng will be eliminated.

Bogus police officer kidnapped two foreign nationals in Pretoria, demanding R9,000

Jonisayi Maromo|Published

Police officers stopped a ‘suspicious’ vehicle occupied by three men, and soon realised that two of them were foreign nationals held by a bogus police officer.

‘I hanged my two daughters to save them’: Pretoria mom to serve 10 years in jail for murdering her two kids

Jonisayi Maromo|Published

Lehlogonolo Bokaba was having problems with her husband and she decided to kill herself and the children ‘to save them from the consequence of growing up without ...

NHI: South Africa’s current dual healthcare system is medical care apartheid, says Prof Salim Karim

Jonisayi Maromo|Published

Infectious diseases epidemiologist, Professor Salim Abdool Karim said the current dual healthcare system is basically a form of medical care apartheid in South Africa. ...

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