Limpopo SAPS Commissioner Lieutenant General Thembi Hadebe
Lt Gen Thembi Hadebe Bids Farewell to SAPS After 40 Years of Service as Limpopo’s Trailblazing Police Commissioner
Limpopo’s first female Provincial Commissioner of Police, Lieutenant General Thembi Hadebe, officially ended a distinguished…
Breakthrough in Kruger National Park Murder Case as Two Suspects Arrested in Mozambique
A major breakthrough has been achieved in the investigation into the brutal murders of South…
Sgt Lelaka Given Heroic Send-Off with Salutary Tributes
Mokgophong – Limpopo police, Sergeant Nyiko William Lelaka who died on the R101 road with…
Seven Inmates, Police Officer Die in Head on Collision
Limpopo – Six awaiting trialists and a police officer died when a vehicle they were…
Limpopo Cop Wanted for Rape Hangs Himself to Evade Arrest
A 45-year-old police officer in Limpopo who was wanted on allegations of raping a 17-year-old girl has committed suicide by hanging himself with a rope at his home in Ditshosing village just outside Giyani. According to the Limpopo Police provincial spokesperson Colonel Malesela Ledwaba, a police sergeant who cannot be named at this stage allegedly raped a 17-year-old female on Sunday, 25 May 2025, at Ditshosing village. On Monday, the 17-year-old teenager opened a rape case against the said police…
A Six-Year-Old Boy Dies as Floods Wreak Havoc in Limpopo
A six-year-old boy has died after flash floods overwhelmed his family’s shack on a farm in Limpopo, in the northern part of South Africa, and swept him away. His desperate parents survived by jumping on top of the roof and watching in dismay as the boy disappeared. Provincial police say the tragic incident happened at Uitenhage farm in Thabazimbi, Waterberg District, on Wednesday, February 19, but the boy’s body was recovered today. “A couple, together with their child, were in…
Seven Suspects, including Five Foreign Nationals, Arrested for Running Illegal Gold Processing Laboratory in Limpopo
The Limpopo Police’s Vala Umgodi Task Team arrested four foreign nationals following the discovery of an illegal gold processing laboratory in Tzaneen on Saturday. They nabbed three Zimbabweans and a Mozambican when they raided a plot along the R71 near Tarentaalrand, Mopani District, in the northern part of South Africa. Zimbabweans John Vondo (39), Hardlife Manjoko (35), Biggie Chimwero (36) and Samuel Mashaba (46), a Mozambican national, appeared briefly before the Ritavi Magistrate’s Court outside Tzaneen town, on Monday, 10…
Facebook Serial Rapist Sentenced To 99 Years In Jail
The Polokwane High Court in Limpopo has sentenced Facebook serial rapist Ronny Maluleke to 99 years imprisonment for multiple counts of rape, counts of robbery aggravating circumstances, and housebreaking with intent to rape. Maluleke’s sentencing on Tuesday came after he was arrested at Lenyenye Village outside Tzaneen in November 2021. He was remanded in custody until his case was finalised. According to Provincial Police spokesperson Brigadier Hlulani Mashaba, in May 2015, the convicted criminal intruded into one of his victim’s…