The Police in the Eastern Cape have confirmed that a student was shot dead at the Mthatha campus of Walter Sisulu University and another one was injured yesterday, 15 April 2025. According to the police, the incident happened when frustrated students mobilised themselves on the evening of Monday, 14 April 2025, complaining about the bad state of their residence. At about 07h00 early on Tuesday morning, the students went to the Residence Manager, who stays within the institution with his…

A teacher who was forced to take an early retirement in April 2023 has been forced to live in a shack after her pension was fraudulently cashed out while she was on a sick bed.  Dumisile Benedictta Gumede’s pension, worth R615 164, 79 was held by the Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF) —a retirement fund that manages pensions and related benefits on behalf of all government employees in South Africa.  Gumede (58) retired before time while she was a teacher…

A former police officer has been convicted and sentenced to 15-years direct imprisonment by the Mokopane’s Regional Court in Limpopo.  According to Limpopo Police Spokesperson Colonel Malesela Ledwaba, Sergeant Nierush Seanego (39), formerly attached to Mahwelereng Visible Policing, has been slapped with a hefty long-term incarceration after being found guilty of robbing a motorist, while in a marked police vehicle along the N1 road.  “The conviction stems from an incident in February 2023, when the complainant was stopped near Nyl…

The Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) has given KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Police Commissioner, Lt General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi until 19 March 2025 to submit a sworn statement regarding an investigation against him. Mkhwanazi is alleged to have defeated the ends of justice by preventing the arrest of a senior Westville prison official accused of selling drugs. The alleged incident took place in Richards Bay in 2023. The IPID also made a U-turn on its earlier statement that Police Minister Senzo Mchunu requested…

Malawi’s chief Resident Magistrate Court in Lilongwe, Madalitso Chimwaza, has ordered that fugitives prophet Bushiri and his wife, Mary, be extradited to South Africa. There, they face charges of fraud, money laundering, and other crimes. The controversial couple mysteriously fled the country after skipping bail in 2020, facing charges of money laundering to the tune of R102 million, fraud and contravention of the Prevention of Organised Crime Act. The prophet and his wife were later located in their country of…

Three employees of construction company, Hillary Construction, have been criminally charged for allegedly defrauding the civil engineering giant of over R12 million.  Given Victor Mathebula (31), Simnikiwe Ndinisa (48), and Demala Ndou (41) allegedly generated fraudulent invoices to order equipment worth millions for their personal benefits in Westenburg township, just outside Polokwane, in Limpopo.  The suspects, which include a 48-year-old woman and two men, were arrested on separate occasions between Saturday, 1st and Monday, 3rd March 2025, by the Limpopo’s…

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…

The family of Nkosi Shabalala, the South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU) activist who was killed on 18 January this year in front of his kids and wife, are concerned with the slow pace of the police investigations into the case.  Shabalala was from Bergville in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, but lived in Clermont as he was a teacher at Eric Mtshali Secondary School near Pinetown. He was also the head of the department for physical science and mathematics. According to…

One of the suspects who was allegedly involved in the dramatic and brazen cash in transit (CIT) heist along the N2 in Durban on Tuesday morning has been shot dead by the police. The suspect was killed during a gunbattle with the police in the suburb of Glenwood, some 10 kilometers away from the crime scene.  According to the police in KwaZulu-Natal, they followed up information regarding the vehicles which were spotted fleeing from the cash in transit robbery crime…

The South African Police Service (SAPS) has arrested more than 12, 000 suspects – including killers, rapists and drug dealers – during their anti-crime crackdown last week. At least 12,251 suspects, among them 1,065 illegal foreign nationals, were rounded up across the country during Operation Shanela between Monday, January 27, and Sunday, February 2.  The high-density operation is managed at the provincial level by each provincial commissioner.  In a statement on February 3, SAPS reaffirmed its commitment to combating crime,…