# Tshwane police conducted Operation Shanela in Boschkop and Cullinan on Thursday, which resulted in the arrest of 311 suspects. The suspects were arrested for various criminal offences including murder, attempted murder, rape, perjury, and armed robbery. Police spokesperson, Johan van Dyk, says a roadblock executed in Boschkop led to the detention of 24 undocumented […]
# The GOOD Party says it is cautiously optimistic that the latest Gauteng crime statistics for January to March 2025 reflect a strong and reassuring decline in reported crime across the City of Tshwane. Comparing the same period in 2024 and 2025, Tshwane recorded a 17.7 percent reduction in murders, from 226 to 186 cases, […]
# Cape Town mayor, Geordin Hill-Lewis, says they are making progress with their 200-million-rand solar photovoltaic plant in Atlantis. Around two-thousand-400 solar panels of the total planned 12-thousand-850 to power the local grid by the end of this year have been installed. Hill-Lewis says this plant can potentially scale up to ten megawatts fed directly […]
# Roadrunning: National Police Commissioner, Fannie Masemola, has pledged his full support to the 437 police officers who will be participating in the Comrades Marathon on Sunday. The group includes 66 women and 371 men. More than 80 nations will be represented in the race, a down-run over approximately 89 kilometres from Pietermaritzburg to Durban. […]
# The DA says the South African Police Service must be transparent about the real conviction rate for illegal firearm cases, not from the point of prosecution, but from the point of arrest. The party’s Ian Cameron says only five-percent of Cape Town gun arrests lead to convictions and not the 80-to-90-percent SAPS claims. He […]
# ActionSA in Ekurhuleni says it is appalled by the conduct of DA ward 106 Councillor, Timothy Denny, who is facing serious allegations of racism after a disturbing video surfaced on WhatsApp. In the video, Denny is allegedly heard saying he “just hunted the Black people” and proposes the use of tear gas to disperse […]
# The Road Freight Association says it is highly improbable that Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences will be rolled out from midnight. This is despite rumours circulating on some social media. The association’s CEO, Gavin Kelly, says the Road Traffic Infringement Agency, in its last communiqué, said that AARTO would be rolled out in […]
# The GOOD Party is calling on the Judicial Service Commission to urgently review the racially charged remarks made by Judge Ratha Mokgoatlheng, who is presiding over the high-profile Senzo Meyiwa murder trial. During a live broadcast, he used racially divisive language in voicing his frustration with defence advocate Charles Mnisi, who had asked to […]
# Gauteng provincial police commissioner, Tommy Mthombeni says the police family violence, child protection and sexual offences unit maintains a comprehensive approach to address sexual offenses, from enforcement to education and community engagement. He says sexual offences cases were reduced by 2.1-percent in the province between January and March this year. Mthombeni says they have arrested one-thousand-112 sexual offenders and presented one-thousand-356 cases in court:
