South African Police Service (SAPS)
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…
Slain SADTU Activist’s Family Cries Foul Over ‘Slow’ Police Investigations
The family of Nkosi Shabalala, the South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU) activist who was…
Durban N2 Cash-in-Transit Heist Suspect Killed by Police, Accomplice Badly Wounded
One of the suspects who was allegedly involved in the dramatic and brazen cash in…
SAPS Arrests Over 12,000 Suspects, Including Killers and Rapists, During Operation Shanela
The South African Police Service (SAPS) has arrested more than 12, 000 suspects – including…
Namibian Bank Accounts of Mpumalanga Couple Nabbed For Illegal Coal Mining in Carolina Seized
The Mpumalanga couple arrested in November 2023 for allegedly mining coal on a farm in the frigid town of Carolina suffered more setback when their eight Namibian bank accounts with a stash of R52 million were seized by authorities. The accounts belong to Jacobus Hosea Jordaan and his wife Elza Jordaan. The seizure of the bank accounts was a result of joint work by the National Prosecuting Authority’s (NPA) Asset Forfeiture Unit, the South Africa’s Financial Intelligence Centre (SA-FIC), the…
Ayabonga Mjilo’s Alleged Killer To Spend Two Month Behind Bars After Dropping Bail Bid
A restaurant manager who allegedly strangled and killed a KwaZulu-Natal woman before burying her body in his yard at Amaotana (Inanda) in Durban will spend at least two months in jail after abandoning his bail application. Mfanafuthi Kunene, accused of killing Ayabonga Mjilo, abruptly gave up his bid for bail when he appeared before the Durban Magistrate’s Court on Monday, January 6. According to KwaZulu-Natal police, Kunene (37) was the last person seen with Mjilo (22), who disappeared on December 23,…
SIU Pounces On Free State’s Masilonyana Local Municipality Over Suspected Tender Irregularities
The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has pounced on a Free State municipality over suspected tender irregularities and maladministration involving water supply contracts. Assisted by the Hawks and the South African Police Service (SAPS), the unit’s members swooped on the Masilonyana Local Municipality’s premises in Welkom. They seized documents relating to tenders for the Brandfort Water Treatment Works and Raw Water Pump Stations and the upgrading of the Brandfort Sports Centre Phase II including payment records and electronic devices. The SIU…
Endumeni Municipal Officials Who Sold R1.7M Grader For A Song Face New Probe
A report to the council of Endumeni (Dundee) Local Municipality in north-western KwaZulu-Natal has recommended that the officials who underpriced and sold a municipal grader worth R1.7 million for R550 000 be hauled over the coals. This report also formed part of the resolutions passed during a meeting late November this year when the matter came up for discussion. In 2023, the municipality resolved that a faulty grader be disposed of in a public auction. However, the process was tainted…
Border Breach: SANDF Battles Illegal Crossings And Smuggling At SA-Zimbabwe
Musina, Limpopo – The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) is battling to contain illegal migrants crossing into South Africa from the Zimbabwe border, said a SANDF official. Briefing the media recently in Musina, Lieutenant Colonel Mzoxolo Ketsekile, Battalion Commander of Operation Corona, said they have deployed many soldiers along the border to stop people smuggling goods and crossing in and out of the country at undesignated points. He said illegal border crossing is prevalent along the borderline and it…
Police Launch Manhunt For Foreign Pastor After KZN House Used To Manufacture Fake Hair Products
The police in KwaZulu-Natal are hunting for a foreign pastor who runs a church in Umbilo in Durban to answer why his house in Pinetown was being used to manufacture fake hair products. The discovery was made on Tuesday while police were following a trail of a flow bin which was stolen at Westmead industrial site near Pinetown in the west of Durban. Intelligence information led the police to a house in Somerset Place in Pinetown where the stolen flow…
North West Official Appears In Court On 54 Counts Of Fraud
The Deputy Director of the North West Department of Public Works and Roads, Mmapitsi Virginia Seate appeared in the Mmabatho Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, November 13, facing 54 counts of fraud related to falsified travel expense claims. According to a joint statement by the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks) and the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), Seate (51) was arrested earlier in the day by the Mahikeng-based Serious Commercial Crime Investigation unit. Her arrest follows an investigation into alleged fraudulent…
‘Mashatile’s VIP Protectors Learned From National Assembly Bullies’
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema has likened the incident in which Deputy President Paul Mashatile’s security detail assaulted motorists on the N1 highway in Johannesburg to the actions of parliamentary police officers who have unleashed violence on opposition members in the past. Malema was speaking during a media briefing held at Uncle Tom’s Hall in Soweto earlier today. He was speaking in reference to the assault that took place on the N1 over the weekend, where motorists who…
FAST AND FURIOUS: Mashatile Protectors Under Investigation For Highway Assault Incident
The National Commissioner of Police, General Fannie Masemola, is investigating a roadside assault incident involving Deputy President Paul Mashatile’s VIP protection team. In cellphone footage wildly shared on social media, armed security personnel are seen assaulting occupants of a popular hatchback brand on the N1 freeway in Johannesburg. In the video, the heavily-armed protectors can be seen jumping out of their blue light vehicle, dragging the two occupants out of their car, and kicking and stomping them in their faces. One…
Concern over stalling GBVF Fund as another woman loses her life
The murder of a 26-year-old woman in Limpopo has once again raised concerns about South Africa’s ever-growing gender-based violence and femicide statistics. This week, the residents of Makhushane Village near Phalaborwa woke up to the news that their neighbour Judith Mathebula, 26, had been stabbed to death. According to local police spokesperson, Colonel Malesela Ledwaba, they are pleading with Mathebula’s ex-boyfriend Watch Ndlovu from Gravelotte to avail himself to the nearest police station. “Police received a complaint about a woman…