Manhunt puts Marydale house robbery suspect safely behind bars
A manhunt in Marydale secured the arrest of a house robbery suspect and recovery of stolen goods. On Saturday, 14 October 2023 at about 17:30 the 18-year-old suspect entered the farm house near Marydale under the pretense of asking water from the elderly female farm owner. The suspect allegedly overpowered the 66-year-old victim and severely [...]
Kimberley police need assistance in tracing a missing person
The Kimberley police are appealing to the public to assist in locating Rachael Matorere aged 35, who resides at De Ville farm, Douglas. Rachael was last seen by her husband on Sunday, 03 September 2023 when she departed for Johannesburg. She was wearing a long blue dress with short sleeves, a black denim jacket and [...]
Trained plant detection dog utilized to curb succulent poaching yields success
The SAPS plant detection dog "Delta" trained to detect succulent plants displayed his training during a police action in Springbok where two males were arrested for illegal possession of 1760 endangered plants. A multi-disciplinary operation involving the Springbok Stock Theft and Endangered Species Unit (STESU), Springbok Public Order Policing (POP) and the Endangered Wildlife Trust [...]
Police in De Aar secures murder and business burglary sentences
Police management in the Pixley Ka Seme District welcomes the murder and business burglary sentences recently handed down in the De Aar Regional Court. Brian Tree (36) was convicted on 12 October 2023 on a charge of murder and sentenced to life Imprisonment. The incident took place in Sunrise on 21 August 2021 at about [...]
Prieska man sentenced for killing his father’s girlfriend
The Pixley Ka Seme District Commissioner, Maj Gen Nomana Mtukushe welcomes the sentencing of Frans Cornelius Vermeulen. He was sentenced in the Kimberley High Court for murdering his father's girlfriend on their farm in Prieska. Frans Vermeulen, was 17 years old at the time of the incident, when he and his father's girlfriend, Sharifa Brown [...]
Port Nolloth man found guilty of tampering with essential infrastructure
During the early hours of Thursday, 31May 2022, members of Port Nolloth SAPS received a complaint from a concerned member of the community, residing in Nollothville, Port Nolloth. The complaint, complained about a disturbing noise near a Telkom line. Members attached to Visible Policing, Port Nolloth immediately attended to the complaint. The members found a [...]
Galeshewe rape accused sentenced to 18 years direct imprisonment
The Northern Cape SAPS management welcomed the sentence handed down to a 64-year-old male accused in the Galeshewe Regional Court recently. On Saturday, 09 April 2022 at 21:00, the accused visited his friend in Vergenoeg, Galeshewe. The 8-year-old female victim's father went to fetch something at his neighbours’ house, leaving the victim with the accused [...]
Bothithong rape accused sentence
On Sunday, 28 October 2018 at approximately 11:00 an 18-year-old victim was walking home from church with a female friend. An unknown man suddenly appeared from behind a tree with his face covered with a t-shirt. The accused cut a branch from the tree and threatened the victim and her friend with it. The accused [...]
Six SANDF members died in a raging veld fire, Lohatla
SAPS in Kathu are investigating an Inquest after the tragic deaths of six members of the South African National Defence Force. On Friday, 06 October 2023, raging veld fires swept through Kathu in the Gamagara Municipality District and spread to the Lohatla SA Army Combat Training Centre. Four males and one female died on the [...]
Two suspects arrested for possession of protected plants in Springbok
The Sprinbok SAPS Stock Theft and Endangered Species Unit (STESU), Public Order Policing (POP) unit and members from Steinkopf SAPS arrested two male suspects at a vehicle checkpoint (VCP) for possession of endangered plants. On 04 October 2023 at about the 00:20, SAPS members conducted a VCP on the R382 road between Steinkopf and Port [...]
Pampierstad rapist sentenced for two counts of rape
The Hartswater Regional Court recently imposed a 26 years’ imprisonment sentence to 27-year-old Tsholofelo Sydney Wesi for raping a 27-year-old female victim on Saturday, 07 September 2019. The Court heard that the victim was hitch-hiking home to Sekhing village, Pampierstad when she was accosted by the suspect who at the time offered to accompany her [...]
Uncle convicted for murder of niece
The Management of SAPS in the ZF Mgcawu District welcomed the conviction and sentencing of 43-year-old David Bosman from Rosedale. The accused was sentenced to 17 years’ imprisonment in the Upington Regional court on 29 September 2023 for the murder of 43-year-old Elizabeth Bosman. The accused was the uncle of the deceased who stayed in [...]
