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Gangs, violent crimes and drug trafficking, 7 arrests, Cape Flats

Gangs, violent crimes and drug trafficking, 7 arrests, Cape Flats

Members attached to Operation Thunder secured arrests during the past 24 hours. The operation team has been deployed to ensure stability in various areas...
Unlicensed firearms, illegal mining equipment recovered, Krugersdorp. Photo: SAPS

Unlicensed firearms, illegal mining equipment recovered, Krugersdorp

On Monday, 9 September 2019, Krugersdorp SAPS conducted a crime prevention operation around the CBD which started at about 08:30 ending at 15:45.The focus...
Cato Manor man slits girlfriends throat

Cato Manor man slits girlfriends throat

An operation conducted by Cato Manor detectives produced positive result when they arrested a 42 year old wanted murder suspect. Police had been searching...
More illegal firearms recovered across KZN

More illegal firearms recovered across KZN

On 9 September 2019, three suspects aged 21 and 41 appeared in the Madadeni Magistrate’s Court facing charges for possession of unlicensed firearms and...
Pretoria SAPS operation sees 102 buildings searched

Pretoria SAPS operation sees 102 buildings searched

South African Police Service Tshwane District held a two day inner-city operation under the banner of "Okae Molao". Brooklyn, Pretoria Central and Sunnyside policing...
Mandrax dealer arrested, Aliwal North

Mandrax dealer arrested, Aliwal North

During the weekend of 8 September 2019, Members of Aliwal North Cluster Operational Command Centre (COCC), conducted an information driven Operation in Maletswai Area,...
Operation Lockdown cracks the whip on violence, looting, Samora Machel, CT. Photo: SAPS

Operation Lockdown cracks the whip on violence, looting, Samora Machel, CT

Operation Lockdown forces have been deployed to Samora Machel, Cape Town, where violence erupted during the early hours of 8 September 2019, in an...
Truck driver doused with petrol: WC transport MEC - 'obstruction to our economy'. Photo: Arrive Alive

Truck driver doused with petrol: WC transport MEC – ‘obstruction to...

Following attacks on more trucks in our province overnight, we have stepped up the intensity of operations on the N7 and in other affected...
Xenophobic attacks, South Africa: Hatred incited against whites, unacceptable

Xenophobic attacks, South Africa: Hatred incited against whites, unacceptable

The racial hatred incited against whites during xenophobic attacks in South Africa is not only unacceptable to TLU SA, but also of grave concern. “Even...
Another four trucks petrol bombed overnight. Photo: BKA

Another four trucks petrol bombed overnight

In the early hours of 10 September 2019, three trucks were petrol bombed and burnt out. This time the attacks took place in Moorreesburg,...
Swanepoel murder, wife torture, grandchild threatened with oven, 2 in court. Photo: SAPS

Swanepoel murder, wife torture, grandchild threatened with oven, 2 in court

Two men, Kholofelo Makhudu aged 19 and Gift Mbola aged 22, made their second appearance at the Witbank Magistrate’s Court on 9 September 2019,...
R85 million cocaine seizure at Port Elizabeth harbour

R85 million cocaine seizure at Port Elizabeth harbour

More than R85 million worth of narcotics was seized at Port Elizabeth Harbour (Ngqura Port) over the weekend of 8 September 2019, following an...