Eighteen-year-old Wakeel Dreyer was killed last Thursday afternoon, just hours before he was due to receive his matric results. A man has been arrested in connection with the murder of a Mitchells Plain teenager. Eighteen-year-old Wakeel Dreyer was killed last Thursday afternoon, just hours before he was due to receive his matric results. Gunmen fired […]
The 53-year-old man, who cannot be named at this stage, is facing over 700 counts of rape, sex trafficking and child pornography The trial of a man accused of being part of a sex ring with prominent human rights lawyer Paul Kennedy is set to begin in the Johannesburg High Court on Monday morning. The […]
The 18-year-old was killed in a gun attack in Eastridge yesterday. Cape Town police said they were investigating the murder of a Mitchells Plain teen who started matric this week. The 18-year-old was killed in a gun attack in Eastridge on Thursday. He sustained several bullet wounds. “Police members attended a complaint on Thursday, upon […]
On Friday, councillor in the Mkhondo Local Municipality, Sibongiseni Ntshangase, was shot and killed alongside two others at Longhomes township outside Mkhondo. Cosatu in Mpumalanga said that it was devastated by continued political killings in the region. On Friday, councillor in the Mkhondo Local Municipality, Sibongiseni Ntshangase, was shot and killed alongside two others at […]
The incident took place in Kensington while the mosque was in service. Two men were shot dead after they allegedly attempted to rob a mosque in Kensington, Johannesburg, on Tuesday night. The police’s Dimakatso Sello said the incident took place while the mosque was in service. She said one suspect was arrested on the scene, […]
The court appearance of a 30-year-old man accused of the rape and murder of 4-year-old Bokgabo Poo has been abruptly adjourned in the Benoni Magistrate’s Court in East Rand, Gauteng. This is after the father of the girl tried to attack the accused in the dock. The accused is charged with five counts including murder, […]
It has been a devastating few days in Cape Town, with multiple lives lost in brazen acts of violence. Lester Kiewit spoke to director of the African Centre for Security and Intelligence Praxis, Eldred de Klerk, about the reputation Cape Town is developing as a murder capital. Nine people were killed in Vrygond, two […]
As the country is plunged into Stage 6 Loadshedding, residents of Sharpeville, Tshepiso, Boipatong and other surrounding areas have been in perpetual darkness as their power has been off for days since Saturday Morning. The power disruption is due to a vandalized Substation in the Tshepiso/Divencheng area which is falling victim to theft for the […]
At least 6 bodies – believed to be that of Zama Zamas, have been found in the veld along the N1 highway on Johannesburg’s West Rand. The discovery was made near the Maraisburg off-ramp in Roodepoort on Wednesday. It appears the men have been stabbed, shot and stoned to death. Police are on the scene […]
Police in Plettenberg Bay, in the Western Cape, have arrested two suspects for the alleged murder and armed robbery of a shop owner. The shop owner was shot dead at his spaza shop last week . Police had launched a manhunt after the 27-year-old Ethiopian shop owner was gunned down in Kwanokuthula. Police Spokesperson, Chris […]