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Violence against women: Protest during Ramaphosa's speech. Photo: Die Vryburger

Violence against women: Protest during Ramaphosa’s speech

During Ramaphosa's speech in Irene regarding women violence, an activist group held a silent protest by holding womens underwear in the air and holding...
Gupta contracts: Senior Transnet official suspended. Photo: Die Vryburger

Gupta contracts: Senior Transnet official suspended

Another senior Transnet official has been suspended for his alleged involvement in awarding contracts related to the locomotive project involving the Guptas. The contract involving...
Ford Kuga fire death: Gerrie Nel to tackle Ford Motor Company

Ford Kuga fire death: Gerrie Nel to tackle Ford Motor Company

AfriForum announced on 2 November that Adv. Gerrie Nel, Head of the civil rights organisation’s Private Prosecution Unit, and his team had been supporting...
VIP officer's life saved as suspects rifle jams, Durban. Photo: Phoenix Crime Watch

VIP officer’s life saved as suspects rifle jams, Durban

A KZN VIP Response Officer who responded a burglar alarm in Broadlands, Mt Edgecombe, was met by at least seven suspects. One of those...
Endangered species: Pangolin rescued in Florida. Photo: Drift Reaction cc

Endangered species: Pangolin rescued in Florida

Last weekend, 28 November 2018, we received information that a suspect contacted a Drift Reaction cc client and offered to sell him a Pangolin....
Midrand 'home robbery' revolver seized during arrest in Mamelodi East

Midrand ‘home robbery’ revolver seized during arrest in Mamelodi East

A revolver linked to a house robbery in Midrand was recovered in Mamelodi East last night, 1 November 2018, after the arrest of a...
Murder of Umbilo businessman, three suspects appear in court

Murder of Umbilo businessman, three suspects appear in court

Three suspects aged between 30 and 40 appeared in the Durban Magistrates’ Court today for the murder of a businessman, Kidesh Ramjettan (37) and...
Attack: Cowies Hill man shot, returns fire, kills robber

Attack: Cowies Hill man shot, returns fire, kills robber

In the early hours of 2 November 2018, a 25 year old suspect was arrested by police for alleged attempted robbery and attempted murder....
Community goes on rampage, attacks Soshanguve police station. Photo: SAPS

Community goes on rampage, attacks Soshanguve police station

Police officers were conducting crime prevention duties on 2 November 2018 in Soshanguve. During their patrol they spotted a group of boys who were...
Farm murder of Riaan Scheepers: Lengthy sentences welcomed

Farm murder of Riaan Scheepers: Lengthy sentences welcomed

Eastern Cape Provincial commissioner welcomed the lengthy sentences of the two accused Bulelani Bafo Zozi age 21 and Siphamandla Petse age 24 who on...
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Street vendor stabbed by customer in Cheltondale

Gauteng: At 12H13 Friday afternoon Netcare 911 responded to a stabbing at a petrol station on Louis Botha Avenue in Cheltondale, Johannesburg. Reports from the...
Tom Moyane lies and sabotage, SARS. Photo: Die Vryburger

Moyane fired as SARS commissioner

President Cyril Ramaphosa has terminated with immediate effect the employment of Tom Moyane as Commissioner of the South African Revenue Service (SARS). This, the Presidency...