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Unions fed-up with new minimum wage for farm workers

The new minimum wage for farm workers of R3,169.19 a month is a “slap in the face” to workers, says the Commercial, Stevedore, Agricultural...

Brave Pinetown woman, 54, fights off intruders with kitchen knife

A 54-year-old Pinetown woman armed with only a kitchen knife was injured during a violent fight with a gang of home invaders on 29...

Moseley resident expecting family mistakenly opens gate for robbers

Armed robbers cleaned out a Moseley home of electronics and jewellery valued at a large sum after an elderly resident mistakenly let the suspects...
323 firearms confiscated from dealer, Pretoria

323 firearms confiscated from dealer, Pretoria

A team from the Hawks’ Head Office National Bureau for Illegal Firearm Control and Priority Violent Crime (NBIFCPVC) has seized three hundred and twenty...
Culture of non payment encouraged by DA? Photo: Die Vryburger

Culture of non payment encouraged by DA?

The DA controlled Tshwane Metro Council, which manages Pretoria, has written off nearly R400 million of so called "unrecoverable debt of the poor". This debt...
Cape Town hiker murdered, wife injured. Photo:Die Vryburger

Cape Town hiker murdered, wife injured

After the alarming increase in the number of serious attacks on hikers, beach goers and cyclists in and around Cape Town in recent months,...
Mogale anti drug protests prompts action from Minister Mbalula

Mogale anti drug protests prompts action from Minister Mbalula

The Minister of Police, Mr Fikile Mbalula accompanied by the leadership of the South African Police Service returned to Mogale City as per commitment...
Two violent kidnappers remanded in custody, Ogies

Two violent kidnappers remanded in custody, Ogies

Two suspects, Sipho Alfred Msumba aged 37 and Nolufefe Mbulana 33 were remanded in custody by the Ogies Magistrate’s Court today, after their appearance...
Rapist gets 20 years sentence, White River

Rapist gets 20 years sentence, White River

The Provincial Commissioner of the South African Police Service in Mpumalanga, Lieutenant General Mondli Zuma lauded the police for securing a hefty sentence for...
New born found dead after being dumped in sewage system

New born found dead after being dumped in sewage system

Members of the South African Police Service at Phola, near Ogies are looking for the unknown mother of a newly born baby boy who...
Rape parolee arrested for violent murders and arson, Hluhluwe

Rape parolee arrested for violent murders and arson, Hluhluwe

Pitol Zamani Gumede (26) from Hluhluwe will make his second appearance in the Ubombo Magistrate’s Court on 31 January 2018 facing two counts of...
Suspect wounded in police 'shoot out' gets 33 years, Inanda

Suspect wounded in police ‘shoot out’ gets 33 years, Inanda

A man, Mnqobi Shozi (29) from Inanda was convicted and sentenced to a total of 33 years imprisonment for two counts of attempted murder,...