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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,...
Fake news, pictures of armed robbery at Bedfordview. Photo: SAPS

Fake news, pictures of armed robbery at Bedfordview

Management of the South African Police Service has noted with concern, pictures doing the rounds on social media of what appears to be an...
Unisa's labour strike called off

Unisa’s labour strike called off

The strike action at the University of South Africa (Unisa) has been called following a collective agreement reached by the parties. In terms of the...
SA to host 10th BRICS summit in July

SA to host 10th BRICS summit in July

South Africa, which took over the rotational chairship of the emerging economies grouping Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS), is set to...