About R300 000 worth of washing powder believed to have been imported from China, was already packed into boxes of two top selling washing powder brands, ready for sale, when police pounced on the suspects. Police spokesman Warrant Officer Hero Gumbu said that police surprised four Chinese nationals on a plot they had been renting in Rietvlei on Thursday morning as they were about to move some of the goods. “Police were engaged in undercover investigations on that property for a few weeks....

The first trailer of the highly-anticipated film received well over six million views in just 24 hours. JOHANNESBURG - Just 24 hours after the official trailer for the Fifty Shades of Grey movie was released, it's already surpassed six million views. The tantalising movie will star Dakota Johnson as Anastasia Steele and Jamie Dornan as billionaire Christian Grey. It tells the story of their exhilarating romance, originally told in the best-selling novels by EL James. Fans were given a taste...

JOHANNESBURG - The African Union (AU) has pledged $1million to support global efforts to stop the spread of Ebola in West Africa. More than 1,000 people lost their lives to the deadly virus in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria in recent months. The AU held a special conference in Ethiopia to discuss the outbreak. At the same time the South African government has again emphasised that there are no cases of Ebola in the country. Chairperson of the portfolio committee on health Lindelwa...

It’s understood the man has been too traumatised to communicate with police since the incident. JOHANNESBURG - Police say they are yet to take a warning statement from a father whose teenage daughter shot and killed herself apparently with his gun in a Centurion park. Police say the gun was left unattended in his vehicle. It's understood the man has been too traumatised to communicate with police since the incident on Friday afternoon. The 14-year-old girl shot and killed herself after firing...

JOHANNESBURG - Tshwane Mayor Kgosientso Ramokgopa says cable theft investigations in the capital have been escalated to national level. Ramokgopa says the city is being sabotaged by organised gangs. Since April, 459 cases of cable theft and substation tampering have been reported, costing Tshwane millions of rand. Large parts of Centurion are still without power for a fourth day now after two substations were vandalised. The mayor says the possibility that the city's own employees may be...