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Police minister Bheki Cele has brought a high-powered investigation team to probe the deaths of 21 minors at the Enyobeni tavern in Scenery Park, East London, during the early hours of Sunday. The 21 are aged between 13 and 17 years old, some girls and the rest boys. News of the deaths was reported internationally, with President Cyril Ramaphosa issuing a statement of condolences to the families.
As the families of the 21 children who died in an East London tavern in the early hours of Sunday battled to process the enormity of the tragedy, police investigators spent hours combing the scene, trying to piece together the cause of their deaths. The victims were aged between 13 and 17, prompting searching questions about how they died and why children had been allowed into the drinking establishment in the first place, DispatchLIVE reports (https://www.
Police are investigating the murder of a 63-year-old man who was shot multiple times in Mzintlava, Lusikisiki on Friday evening.
Buffalo City Metro has run out of money and is proposing that residents must pay to fix the metro’s collapsed water and sewage system.
She added that food and emergency accommodation had been arranged for the students evacuated on Sunday. Many students recalled Sunday's ordeal as a day of panic and confusion. They were told to pack their essentials and were then transported from the campus in a haze of smoke. READ | Economics student Mathew Field said the day was "apocalyptic, like a scene from a movie". "Students were on campus studying for tests, while others were sleeping at [the residences] when suddenly the sky turned grey and red," he said. A University of Cape Town library burns after a wildfire spread from the slop...