Gauteng

Six of the 11 suspects arrested on 14 September 2023, for possession of unlicensed firearms and ammunition were charged and taken to court while five could not be linked. The suspects appeared before the Johannesburg Magistrates’ Court on 18 September 2023, and their case was postponed to 28 September 2023. They were remanded in custody. [...]

The Gauteng Provincial Legislature’s Portfolio Committee on Community Safety has welcomed measures and extra resources put in place to track down the suspects who...

On the night of Monday, 18 September 2023, the police seized an AK47 riffle and undisclosed amount of dye stained cash subsequent to the arrest of a 28-year-old man in Vlakfontein at Lenasia South. It is reported that, the members from K9 Sedibeng, Rapid Response Soweto and Anti-Gang Unit operationalised information about a man suspected [...]

Operation Shanela in Gauteng has resulted in the arrest of more than 900 suspects including wanted suspects for the weekend period. The multi-disciplinary operation comprises of different law enforcement agencies and stakeholders within Gauteng such as Metro Police Department, Department of Traffic, Department of Home Affairs, Department of Correctional Service, Department of Community Safety Crime [...]

Police in Johannesburg intercepted a group of suspects on Thursday travelling in three vehicles and believed to be on their way to commit armed...

A police officer who holds a rank of a Sergeant, Keabetswe Kgope (35) and Elizabeth Zwane (52) were on Tuesday, 12 September 2023 arrested by the Germiston based Hawks’ Serious Corruption Investigation in Sandton for corruption and defeating the ends of justice. It is alleged that in October 2020, two suspects were arrested by officials [...]

Mahlaku Jaqueline Legoabe (51) is expected back in court on 15 September 2023 after her release on R10 000-00 bail by the Pretoria Specialised Commercial Crimes court subsequent to her arrest in March 2023. The Hawks’ Serious Economic Offences unit arrested Mahlaku Jaqueline Legoabe (51) for fraud and contravention of Section 234(d) and Section 235(1)(A) [...]

The Gauteng Department of Education has so far placed 81 033 Grade 1 learners and 65 726 Grade 8 learners for the 2024 academic...

The police in Gauteng request the public to assist with identifying two female bodies that were discovered in the morning of 09 Septemeber 2023 at an open veld in Jan Frederick Tedstoneville, opposite Ramaphosa’s Squater Camp at Elsburg. Victims are black women aged between 16 and 18-year-old. The first victim was wearing a blue jacket, [...]

The ongoing investigations by the Anti-Gang Unit in Gauteng is definitely throwing a spanner in the works of gangsters in the province, as 73 of them have been arrested so far this year in connection with 90 criminal acts and, of those three have been convicted for life in prison and an additional, combined 130 [...]

Crime intelligence information resulted in the recovery of explosives and arrest of four suspects on two separate incident over the weekend. On the first incident on 09 September 2023, members in Johannesburg Central operationalised information about suspects in possession of explosives intended for illegal mining activities. The two suspects, one a woman were indeed found [...]

The management of the police in Gauteng has described the use of multidisciplinary task teams in the investigation of crime as one of effective tools in bringing perpetrators of crime to account. These sentiments came to the fore as four accused were earlier this week sentenced to two life imprisonment each behind bars and an [...]