Northern Cape

Kimberley Specialised Commercial Crime Court convicted and sentenced Macdonald Peloebuang Gaelejwe (48), to Fifty Thousand Rand (R50 000-00) fine or twelve (12) months imprisonment on Wednesday, 20 September 2023 for contravention of Tax Administration Act 28 of 2011. Between the years 2014 and 2018, Gaeleiwe who is the director of Obontse Trading, Projects CC and [...]

A 54-year-old former plant manager of Sishen Iron Ore Company at Kolomela mine, Johan Breedt was sentenced by Kimberley Specialised Commercial Crime Court on Tuesday, 19 September 2023. Breedt was arrested in December 2020 by the Hawks' Serious Corruption Investigation team, together with two other sentenced persons, Anthony Meyer, Theunes Burger and Burma Plant Hire. [...]

On Saturday, 04 July 2023 at 21:30 in Prieska, a 20-year-old female victim was sleeping in the bedroom with her disabled son and daughter. The stepfather entered the bedroom and started to beat the victim with a stick and instructed the victim to go to his bedroom, the victim tried to run away but the [...]

The Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences (FCS) Unit are investigating a kidnapping and rape case at Delportshoop. On Tuesday, 29 August 2023 two unknown assailants forced a 22 year old female victim into their black sedan Mercedes Benz vehicle at Borrelskop in Delportshoop and drove with her to the Barkley West Resort where [...]

In an effort to address the pursuing illicit mining activities in the Namakwa District, the Provincial Commissioner of the Northern Cape, Lieutenant General Koliswa Otola, executed a two-in-one joint multi-disciplinary operation with the main focus on illicit mining at the AK 64 mining block and the Springbok hostel situated in Kleinsee. The operations were led [...]

Emmanuel Ali (19) was sentenced to 10 years direct imprisonment for the murder of Itumeleng Godfrey Marekwa (20) in Barkly West. On Saturday, 11 December 2021 Itumeleng Marekwa was working outside Shoprite as a shopping trolley assistant when he was stabbed in the neck by the accused, after a brief altercation. Marekwa died on the [...]

The high-density, multi-disciplinary, intelligence driven Operation Shanela which commenced on Thursday, 14 September 2023 until Sunday, 17 September 2023, resulted in the arrest of 186 suspects for an array of crimes including possession of dangerous weapons, dealing in drugs, illegal dealing in liquor, possession of drugs, murder, attempted murder, rape, assault with the intent to [...]

The cross provincial collaboration between police stations and units in the North West and the Northern Cape, resulted in two male hijackers being arrested, the hijacked truck recovered, the occupants of the truck rescued and the vehicle utilized in the commission of the crime seized. On Wednesday, 13 September 2023 a 5 ton Isuzu truck [...]

The Upington based Hawks’ Serious Organised Crime Investigation team and Springbok Public Order Policing team acted on information received of an alleged illegal miner who was about to board a minibus taxi travelling to Cape Town. The team put together a quick disruptive operation, the said minibus was identified and stopped. Upon conducting a search, [...]

The Kuruman Regional Court recently handed down a hefty three life imprisonment sentences to a serial rapist, 28-year-old Thabo Mosieleile and his accomplice, 37-year-old Ernst Gaotlhope for housebreaking with the intention to rape and rape in two separate incidences. The court heard that the accused, Thabo Mosieleile broke into the house of a 52-year-old female [...]

The SAPS welcomes the life sentence that was handed down to a 26-year-old man for raping and robbing his 51-year-old aunt in Fraserburg, Northern Cape. The accused and his mother (victim's sister) were living at his aunt's house at the time of the incident. On 17 December 2020 at about 01:00 the victim was sleeping [...]

The five men found guilty of the rape and attempted rape of an 18-year-old female in Strydenburg have been sentenced to 10 and 15...