# Former SAPS Head of Financial Services in the ZF Mgcawu District, Northern Cape, lieutenant colonel Pieter Andries Nel, has been convicted of 160 charges after admitting to defrauding the police of more than 1.2-million-rand. Nel pleaded guilty to 80 fraud and 80 money-laundering counts in the Upington Serious Commercial Crimes Court. Between 2022 and […]
# Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi today provided a comprehensive update on key provincial governance programmes, touching on crime statistics, high-profile gender-based violence cases, public health initiatives, and anti-corruption measures. He express sadness over the discovery of eight women’s bodies in Ekurhuleni. Lesufi says contact crimes declined by 3-percent in the first quarter, with Operation Shanela […]
# Eastern Cape farmer Louis Lategan has been found guilty of rape and human trafficking in the Makhanda High Court. He was charged for luring six young women to his remote farm with offers of au pair work before sexually assaulting them. The court rejected his claims that the sexual encounters were consensual and that […]
# Kaapstad se burgemeester, Geordin Hill-Lewis, het sy vierde belofte in Rocklands, Mitchells Plain gemaak, as deel van die DA se veldtog vir die plaaslike regeringsverkiesing, naamlik om te verseker noodsaaklike dienste bly betroubaar en bekostigbaar. Hy sê die party het in sy vorige termyn vier keer meer rioolpype vervang en tot 100-kilometer per jaar […]
# Die KwaZulu-Natalse polisie ondersoek ‘n moordsaak nadat ‘n onbekende vrou se liggaam op ‘n vullisterrein in Copeville, Pietermaritzburg, gevind is. Haar hande was agter haar rug vasgebind en die polisie sê sy het vermoedelik brandwonde opgedoen. Vullisherwinnaars het op die liggaam afgekom. Die polisie vra inwoners om te help om die moordenaars op te […]
# Die DA in Gauteng sê bome en takke wat die Hartbeesspruit in Tshwane versper, skep ‘n veiligheidsgevaar vir eiendomme op sy oewers. Die DA-lid, Leanne de Jager, sê die opgehoopte puin versper die natuurlike vloei van die water, wat veroorsaak dat die spruit van sy normale vloei afwyk en die oewers wegkalf. Sy sê […]
# Die Adjunkpresident en voorsitter van die Justisie-Misdaadvoorkomings- en Veiligheidsgroepering, Paul Mashatile, veroordeel die onlangse moorde op vroue in en om Kemptonpark in Gauteng. Mashatile het by president Cyril Ramaphosa aangesluit in solidariteit met die vroue en inwoners van Kemptonpark en omliggende gebiede. Hy sê geslagsgeweld hoort nie in gemeenskappe nie, en mans moet aan […]
# The South African Council of Churches is calling for urgent action to protect women following the discovery of eight women’s bodies on Gauteng’s East Rand over two months. General-secretary, Reverend Mzwandile Molo, told the SABC the deaths in Kempton Park, Olifantsfontein and Springs have sparked fear and outrage. He calls for swift investigations, prosecutions, […]
# Police have launched a manhunt after former SABC sports presenter and businessman Owen Ndlovu was allegedly abducted outside a church in Katlehong on the Gauteng East Rand. Police say Ndlovu was picking up his wife when three armed men confronted the couple. His wife was pushed aside before the suspects forced Ndlovu into his […]
