KwaZulu Natal

On Friday 20 October 2023, Hawks members from Pietermaritzburg Serious Organised Crime Investigation working together with Umgungundlovu Trio Task Team, Visible Policing and private...

Another intelligence driven operation by police officers attached to the Durban Harbour has resulted in cocaine worth a street value of R80 million being seized at a warehouse at the Dube Trade Port within the King Shaka International Airport. Members had been tracking various containers which arrived into the country via the Durban Harbour from [...]

On Thursday 12 October 2023 Durban Regional Court convicted and sentenced Ndumiso Sithole (47) for four counts of contravention of Income Tax Act as well as fraud. Sithole submitted fraudulent income tax returns for the period 2013 to 2016. His conduct was revealed following an audit by the South African Revenue Service (SARS). A case [...]

On Thursday 19 October 2023, Newcastle Regional Court convicted and sentenced four accused for possession of stolen copper cable. The four accused were arrested by Kingsley Visible Policing members in January last year when they were doing patrols around Blood River area. Police stopped the vehicle with four occupants and a search was conducted. During [...]

On Monday 16 October 2023, Hawks members from Pietermaritzburg Serious Organised Crime Investigation working together with Umgungundlovu District and Crime Intelligence arrested two suspects aged 34 and 44 for dealing in drugs at Scottville area in Pietermaritzburg. Members received information about drugs that were going to be dropped off in the area and a joint [...]

Communities in the Amathole District Municipality (ADM) in the Eastern Cape have been urged to remain vigilant amid the rainy weather conditions. The municipality said...

The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) has cautioned residents regarding heavy rainfall that could potentially lead to flooding in the...

Port Shepstone Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences Unit (FCS) detectives are seeking assistance of community members in searching for a rape suspect Xolani Milton Mbambo (41) of uMthwalume area. Mbambo is wanted for the alleged rape of a 37-year-old psychiatric patient at a medical facility in Scottsburgh on 8 April 2021. Reports indicated [...]

A multi-disciplinary operation involving various police disciplines, a vehicle tracking company and private security resulted in the arrest of four suspects who were found to be in an unlawful possession of firearms and ammunition, as well as possession suspected hijacked vehicle on Saturday afternoon. Reports indicate that a Toyota Avanza which was reported hijacked in [...]

The perseverance of the Pietermaritzburg based Hawks’ Serious Organised Investigation team to solve the murder of Constable Mxolisi Desmond Duma (28) led to the arrest of a 30-year-old suspect in the early hours of Friday, 13 October 2023. Constable Duma was shot and killed on 18 November 2021 while he was inside his friend’s vehicle [...]

A 55-year-old suspect who has been on the Hawks’ watchful eye for some time is expected to appear in the Madadeni Magistrates’ court today, 12 October 2023 after he was arrested for dealing in drugs on Wednesday, 11 October in the morning. The Hawks’ Serious Organised Crime Investigation team based in Newcastle working with Newcastle [...]

The Durban based Hawks’ Serious Commercial Crime Investigation served a 61-year-old man summons on 10 October 2023 to appear in court for fraud and contravening the Customs and Excise Act. It is alleged that since July 2022, the businessman misdeclared goods that were imported on 40 containers, prejudicing the South African Revenue Services (SARS) of [...]