# A Limpopo businessman faces further serious charges after appearing in the Polokwane Magistrate’s Court today. Tsebe Phillimon Moloto, owner of the Limpopo Anti-Drug Centre, was already out on fifty-thousand-rand bail for malicious damage to property. The state has added arson, trespassing, and five counts of attempted murder. It is alleged Moloto poured flammable liquid […]
# A professor in Criminology at the University of Pretoria, Christiaan Bezuidenhout, says South Africa has 187-thousand-681 police personnel, but only about 25-thousand operational officers may be available at any time. The total includes 155-thousand-231 sworn officers and 32-thousand-413 civilians who don’t do frontline policing. Speaking to 702, he says after suspensions, leave and absenteeism, […]
# Five people were killed and eleven injured in a three-vehicle crash at Old Pretoria Main Road and Maxwell Drive in Midrand, Gauteng, last night. Johannesburg Metro Police spokesperson Xolani Fihla says the driver of a taxi travelling northbound allegedly failed to stop at a red light and hit two vehicles travelling eastbound. The taxi […]
# Activists and Citizens Forum says charges against suspended SAPS Deputy National Commissioner Shadrack Sibiya including grooming and rape are extremely serious because he is a senior officer. The forum’s Dennis Bloem says the courts must show no mercy to rape accused. He called it a blow to the fight against gender-based-violence. He urged investigators […]
# Rise Mzansi condemns the killing of 11 people, including a pregnant woman, and injury of three people in KwaMakhutha, KwaZulu-Natal. The party’s Mabinda Seaba says extreme violence has become too frequent and demands decisive action, accountability and fresh leadership. Seaba calls for the removal of illegal firearms, disruption of criminal networks through swift intelligence […]
# Education MEC Jaco Londt says with the third school term ending today, the Western Cape Education Department urges matriculants to use the break wisely ahead of exams 20 days away. Over 71-thousand full-time Nationals Senior Certificate candidates are expected to write in the province. He encouraged use of matric support resources on its website […]
# Civic organisation Forum for South Africa has expressed concern at the allegations levelled against suspended Deputy National Police Commissioner Shadrack Sibiya. The 59-year-old is accused of raping an 18-year-old woman at a hotel in Sandton in May. He also faces allegations of sexually grooming a 16-year-old girl between July and August this year. FORUM4SA […]
# Acting national police commissioner Puleng Dimpane has directed KwaZulu-Natal police to activate a 72-hour tracking operation after eleven people were shot dead at KwaMakhutha, Durban. Three others were injured when armed suspects entered a house in the Ziko area and opened fire last night. Spokesperson Nonkululeko Phokane says Dimpane expresses deep concern and says […]
# Taxi boss Oupa ‘Bafana’ Sindane has approached the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria to interdict his scheduled appearance before the Madlanga Commission today. He also wants the court to block the inquiry from using cellphone material seized in his pending two-million-rand extortion and money-laundering case. Sindane argues the phone material was unlawfully obtained and […]
