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Northern Cape 4 day operation nets 88 suspects

Northern Cape 4 day operation nets 88 suspects

The high density operation dubbed - "Operation Shanela" continues to net successes in the Northern Cape with the apprehension and arrest of 88 suspects...
Stock theft units have major successes across Eastern Cape

Stock theft units have major successes across Eastern Cape

Fifty three (53) cattle, 101 sheep and three (3) horses, who some of them were stolen, strayed and some lost were reunited with their...
Two arrested for possession of explosives, Booysens

Two arrested for possession of explosives, Booysens

On 6 September 2017, at 12:00, National Crime Intelligence along with Johannesburg Metro Police Department followed up information from a source about explosives in...
Farm attack, farmer assaulted, attackers threaten to return and kill him, Blinkpan

Farm attack, farmer assaulted, attackers threaten to return and kill him,...

A farm attack took place on Saturday 12 September 2020, in Blinkpan, in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. Peter Honeyborne observed suspicious people...
Rapists handed harsh sentences for rape of girl (14)

Rapists handed harsh sentences for rape of girl (14)

On 31 August 2017, Empangeni Regional Court convicted and sentenced Mbuyiseni Ndebele (29) and Sipho Mhlongo (29) to 15 years imprisonment each for rape...
Phoenix triple murder suspect arrested

Phoenix triple murder suspect arrested

Phoenix police worked tirelessly around the clock tracing the alleged killer of three woman who were brutally murdered at Phoenix. 45 year old man who...
House robbery: Elderly couple, 80 and 82, brutally murdered, Sophiatown

House robbery: Elderly couple, 80 and 82, brutally murdered, Sophiatown

A 45 year old man was arrested for the alleged murder of an elderly couple aged 80 and 82 in Sophiatown on Saturday, 19...

Woman beaten and dragged around during farm attack

A woman was beaten and dragged around during a farm attack on Saturday, February 11 on her farm situated in the Umvoti municipality, KwaZulu-Natal. Around...
Jealous boyfriend thrashes girl to death with sjambok

Jealous boyfriend thrashes girl to death with sjambok

Nqamakwe Police have arrested a 37 year old man for alleged murder of his girlfriend aged 28. It is alleged that the suspect found...
Hefty sentence imposed upon a pastor for sexual offences

Hefty sentence imposed upon a pastor for sexual offences

The Provincial Commissioner of the SAPS in Mpumalanga, Lieutenant General Semakaleng Daphney Manamela has welcomed a hefty sentence imposed upon a Pastor by the name of John Philani Masilela (46). He was sentenced on Friday, 01 September 2023, by the Kwamhlanga Regional Court for a series of sexual related offences. The court heard how the [...]

R59 Meyerton protest turns violent – VIDEO

The protest happening around the R59 Meyerton is becoming violent. Police and protesters are clashing. The protesters are throwing the police with stones,...
R384 million tender fraud, former health HOD and 2 company directors in court

R384 million tender fraud, former health HOD and 2 company directors...

Two company directors, a juristic person (their entity) along with the former head for the department of Health in the Northern Cape were charged...