The South African Enquirer

Sipho Mahlangu

Sipho Mahlangu is the Chief Reporter and covers the police, the courts and the crime beat, including the cases that go quiet and the charges that do not hold.

Navi Pillay wins the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize

Al Jazeera English reported the award on 9 October 2026. Pillay, a former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, becomes one of the small group of South Africans to hold the Nobel Peace Prize.

Sipho Mahlangu · 09 Oct 2026

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Mogalakwena municipal manager in court over R45 million fleet tender

The Hawks' investigation under Operation Phunyuka Bam'phethe has brought the Mogalakwena Local Municipality's R45 million fleet management tender before the courts, with the municipal manager and a company he reportedly directs cited as accused.

09 Oct 2026

Earlier from Sipho Mahlangu

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Sipho Mahlangu

Navi Pillay wins the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize

Mogalakwena municipal manager in court over R45 million fleet tender

Earlier from Sipho Mahlangu

Kimberley man charged with perjury after car he reported hijacked was repossessed

Court ruling reopens asylum doors as Durban centre blocked

Limpopo court orders release of 50 matric results after 'group copying' findings set aside

Home Affairs has two tests for asylum, and the doors are open again

Asylum in South Africa: two grounds, many tests, no quick papers

Niekerkshoop man who beat and kicked his girlfriend gets five years

Protesters picket Durban refugee centre as Home Affairs faces fresh asylum pressure

Vryburg court jails fraudster Lynda Schneider for seven years over iPhone contract

Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma lays charges over rape and murder threats as ANC calls for probe

Mpumalanga father gets 22 years for raping and assaulting his two daughters

Police seize drug-making machine, guns and four suspects at Scheerpoort farm

SAPS arrests three suspects in ninth Gauteng woman murder case

Feroz Khan's testimony postponed after relative shot dead in Ekurhuleni

Phuthaditjhaba mother gets suspended sentence for kicking daughter in the eye

Qwaqwa man gets eight years for breaking into elderly woman's home and attempting to rape her

Qwaqwa man gets 18 years for raping 15-year-old girl

Sibiya's disciplinary hearing postponed to next week as Labour Court bid runs alongside

Second arrest after hijackers target Western Cape social development staff

Sasolburg police seize crystal meth and Mandrax in two Heilbron raids

Malmesbury teen faces 15 charges as cyber child abuse case returns to court

Lephalale police seize R150,000 in illicit cigarettes, arrest 42-year-old suspect

Mthatha security boss held after 140 guns seized, 135 missing

Interpol team arrests Turkish fugitive in Isipingo, court begins extradition