Police in Mpumalanga say they cannot ascertain whether the woman who nearly burned to death inside a truck set alight along the N2 toll road between Piet Retief and Ermelo could have been a sex worker. According to provincial police spokesperson Brigadier Selvy Mohlala, the victim allegedly slept in one of the four trucks attacked in the area last week. “It is alleged that people emerged from the grass and approached the trucks with firearms and instructed the drivers to…

LOBBY group Gun Free South Africa (GFSA) says the government should establish a specialised firearms unit that will undertake the task of recovery and destruction of illegal firearms if it’s serious about curbing the escalating murder rate in the country.  The organization’s statement comes after crime statistics released by Police Minister Bheki Cele a few days ago showed that gun-related crimes had significantly increased to 35%. The number of people shot and killed daily increased from 23 in the 2021/2022…

 In a strange turn of events, a member of a 10-man gang of robbers escaped death after being shot by an accomplice during a cash-in-transit robbery in Limpopo. Provincial police spokesperson Colonel Malesela Ledwaba said the heist took place at around 4:40 pm on the Senotlelo-Mokgwaneng main road in Matlelerekeng outside Sekhukhune District on Monday. “According to reports, a cash-in-transit van was travelling along the Senotlelo-Mokgwaneng road when it was attacked by a group of about ten suspects driving a…