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Ekurhuleni adopts unrealistic budget while service delivery keeps deteriorating

Ekurhuleni adopts unrealistic budget while service delivery keeps deteriorating

The Ekurhuleni Metro Council (Boksburg, Alberton, Benoni, Kempton Park, Springs, Germiston, Brakpan, Edenvale, Nigel and surrounding areas) definitely did not take into account the...
Highways in Gauteng are turning into war zones

Highways in Gauteng are turning into war zones

The FF Plus has requested the Gauteng MEC for Community Safety, Faith Mazibuko, and the Gauteng Police Commissioner, Lt.-Gen. Elias Mawela, to take urgent...
Pretoria serial rapist handed 5 life sentences and 1088 years

Pretoria serial rapist handed 5 life sentences and 1088 years

As Gauteng police continue to prioritise cases against women and children and also to intensify efforts to bring down the scourge of gender-based violence,...
Drug dealers in custody for shipping heroine to the United Kingdom

Drug dealers in custody for shipping heroine to the United Kingdom

Two suspects, Lihle Manana (42) and Calvin Mzoli Mpemba (44) were remanded in custody on allegations of illegal dealing in drugs by the Germiston...
Fresh produce market robbed in Welkom

Fresh produce market robbed in Welkom

An unknown number of males allegedly fled with an undisclosed amount of money and a pistol after robbing a Fresh Produce Market in Mannys,...
Woman convicted for SASSA grant fraud

Woman convicted for SASSA grant fraud

Nonkuliseko Masimini (45) got convicted and sentenced by Mthatha Specialised Commercial Crimes Court for South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) grant fraud on Thursday,...
Mother hospitalized after poisoning her kids and herself

Mother hospitalized after poisoning her kids and herself

On Thursday the 27 May 2021 at about 05:50, the police received a complaint about children alleged to have died at a house in...
Suspect in custody for police murder, Durban

Suspect in custody for police murder, Durban

A 22-year-old suspect will appear in the Verulam Magistrates’ Court on 28 May 2021 following his arrest in an intelligence driven operation was conducted...
National Lotteries fraud, sixth suspect arrested

National Lotteries fraud, sixth suspect arrested

The Gauteng Provincial Head of the Hawks, Major General Ebrahim Kadwa has welcomed the sixth arrest on allegations of fraud involving R1.5 million stolen...
Police attacked, reservist constable killed, sergeant critical, Jouberton

Police attacked, reservist constable killed, sergeant critical, Jouberton

The South African Police Service's Management has sent messages of condolences to the family of a police reservist constable killed in the early hours...
5 Pinetown home invaders shot dead, 6th robber handed 56 year sentence

5 Pinetown home invaders shot dead, 6th robber handed 56 year...

On 27 May 2021, the Pinetown Regional Court sentenced Sboniso Msomi (33) to fifty six years imprisonment for charges of burglary, robbery, murder and...
Farm attack, man brutalized by 4 attackers, smallholding raided, Naauwpoort

Farm attack, man brutalized by 4 attackers, smallholding raided, Naauwpoort

A farm attack took place on Monday 24 May 2021, at 13:00, on a smallholding in Naauwpoort, South of Witbank, in the Mpumalanga province...