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WESTERN CAPE Police are investigating a triple murder after three men were shot dead in Gugulethu’s KTC informal settlement this morning. Police say the victims sustained multiple gunshot wounds to their upper bodies and heads and were declared dead at the scene. Authorities say the circumstances surrounding the shooting and the motive remain under investigation. Colonel Andrè Traut explains 

Defence and Military Veterans Minister, Angie Motshekga has welcomed more than 2,500 new soldiers, who have completed their basic military training at 3 SAI in the Northern Cape. They are joining an SANDF under increase pressure to assist the police stem the tide of crime, including in hotspots in the Western Cape, where gang violence remains a major challenge, despite the deployment of soldiers. Our reporter, Warren Engelbrecht has the details......

The Mathebula family from Homu 14, A village near Giyani in Limpopo is in mourning. This after the discovery of the body of the 28-year old, Vutomi Mathebula in the Kempton Park in the Ekurhuleni Metro in Gauteng. Her decomposed body is among those found dumped in the area. She had been reported missing towards the end of March, this year. Our reporter, Avhapfani Munyai has the details...

US ambassador to South Africa, Leo Brent Bozell III says America will not release the names of South Africans who will be affected by the visa restrictions. Accordingly, the US state department plans to imposed this visa restrictions on government officials and South African civil servants, who shape the land expropriation laws. This also includes those, who continue to promote the "kill the boer kill the  farmer" song. SABC News spoke to ambassador Bozell on the range of issues, including visa restrictions, trade relations and the minority Afrikaner group. Our reporter, Ditaba Tsotetsi has more.

Analysts expect the Reserve Bank's Monetary Policy Committee to increase interest rates by a quarter of a percent when it announces its decision on Wednesday (23 September) amid inflationary pressures and uncertainty due to the ongoing US-Iran war.  The expected hike is also supported by elevated levels of inflation which currently sits at four-point-three percent, a figure above the bank's three percent target rate.  The policy rate is currently at seven percent, while the prime lending rate is ten-point-five percent.  Naledi Mabitsela-Ngcobo reports...

This Monday, SAfm anchor Sakina Kamwendo once again spoke to  Zimele Mbanjwa, FNB Wealth and Investments analyst, for the latest market update.

Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Dean Macpherson has directed the Construction Industry Development Board to investigate allegations that Morial Infrastructure Group obtained multiple construction gradings on the same day. The allegations suggest the company may not have met the requirements for those gradings, which were allegedly used to secure government contracts. The investigation follows scrutiny of the company's alleged links to businessman Lawrence Chamurwa Mudzingayima, who was filmed threatening women at a Sandton restaurant. For more on this matter Sakina Kamwendo spoke to  CIDB CEO Bongani Dladla 

Taxi boss and businessman Joe "Ferrari" Sibanyoni is testifying before the Madlanga Commission. Sibanyoni says Gubis 85 provided VIP protection services to his taxi association and related entities from March 2024, at a monthly fee of 145-thousand rand, VAT inclusive. He says the arrangement was commercially reasonable and necessary due to credible threats to his safety. He also revealed that he received a bakkie as a voluntary birthday gift from Gubis 85, describing it as pure goodwill with no strings attached. 

Taxi boss and businessman Joe “Ferrari” Sibanyoni continues testifying before the Madlanga Commission. Sibanyoni addressing his position on key messages and interactions involving Sergeant Nkosi. He says he knew Nkosi as a social acquaintance and acknowledges that Nkosi visited his home on about 12 occasions in a social capacity.

National Assembly Speaker, Thoko Didiza, told the TRC Cases Inquiry she's unable to assist the Commission without a record, agenda, or minutes of two alleged meetings she called while she was the  Acting Minister of Justice in 2006. Didiza says she has no independent recollection of these meetings, as they allegedly happened twenty years ago. She appeared briefly before the TRC Cases Commission, which is tasked with probing whether there was any political interference and deliberate efforts not to investigate further and prosecute TRC matters.