Gauteng’s Crime Prevention Wardens shake hands with Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi. The civil society group, Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA), has criticised the repurposing of the Crime Prevention Wardens, also known as AmaPanyaza. On Wednesday, Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi announced the disbandment of AmaPanyaza in a phased approach. He said the wardens will undergo extensive…
Gauteng’s Crime Prevention Wardens The Public Protector (PP) has released a report on allegations of irregularities in the establishment, appointment, and deployment of Gauteng’s Crime Prevention Wardens (CPW), also known as Amapanyaza, an initiative led by Premier Panyaza Lesufi. The investigation, prompted by a complaint from Advocate Paul Hoffman, found that the Gauteng Department of…
Former accused-turned-state-witness Rudolph De Wet testifies before the Limpopo pig farm murder trial on 22 October 2025. Rudolph de Wet, the second accused-turned-state-witness in the double murder trial of Limpopo pig farmer Zacharia Olivier, has told the court he was tortured by police on the day of his arrest. De Wet testified against Olivier in…
File image Seven South African Police Service officers have been arrested for alleged extortion and kidnapping by the Johannesburg Metro Police Department’s Tactical Reaction Unit. The officers are accused of demanding money from an illegal miner found in possession of gold-refining material. City of Johannesburg Public Safety MMC Mgcini Tshwaku says the JMPD officers apprehended…
A Crime Prevention Wardens vehicle is seen during an operation to recover stolen and hijacked vehicles in Ekurhuleni on 10 October 2025. The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) in Gauteng has rejected the proposed 36-month phase out of the Crime Prevention Wardens (CPW). This follows Premier Panyaza Lesufi’s decision to disband the wardens programme. Lesufi says the wardens…
Court gavel. The Free State High Court has sentenced a 58-year-old Welkom lawyer to three life sentences for raping five minor children. In 2019, two of the victims, who are the lawyer’s stepdaughters, disclosed the abuse to their mother. Investigations revealed that the abuse began in 2007, when the youngest victim was seven, and continued…
FILE | A man throws water on a shack engulfed in flames in Langa, Cape Town, in this image captured on 16 April 2022. Two people in their sixties died in a house fire in Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal, despite the efforts of bystanders and the emergency services to quell the blaze. The fire gutted the house…
School classroom with tables and chairs. Police fired stun grenades outside Milnerton High School in Cape Town to disperse a group of demonstrators. This after a discussion between the school principal and protesters. Members of various civic organisations and political parties are demanding that learners who were allegedly involved in a violent bullying incident at…
School classroom Ninety-five percent of schools in Gauteng have not been inspected for structural safety in the past five years. This is contained in a written reply to a question by the Democratic Alliance in the Gauteng Legislature. DA Gauteng spokesperson on Education Michael Waters says only 105 of the more than 2 000 public…
Accused number one in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial, Muzi Sibiya. The State in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial is expected to continue probing accused number one, Muzi Sibiya, on his evidence in chief when the case resumes at the Pretoria High Court on Wednesday morning. Five men are on trial for the 2014 murder…
