Forensic officials hold a meeting outside a tavern, the scene of an early morning shooting in Bekkersdal, December 21, 2025. The five people who are accused of shooting nine patrons dead at the KwaNoxolo tavern in Bekkersdal, Gauteng, will be back in the Westonaria Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday. The five who appeared in court on…
Alleged criminal cartel kingpin Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala gives evidence before Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee at the Kgosi Mampuru Correctional Facility in Pretoria on November 26, 2025. The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) has confirmed that alleged cartel member and attempted murder-accused Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala has been moved to a super maximum correctional centre in Kokstad,…
Picture shows barrier tape and gun cartridges. An eight-year-old boy and three adults have been shot and wounded in a crossfire between rival gangs in Parkwood on the Cape Flats. Police spokesperson, Ndakhe Gwala, says the child sustained wounds to his pelvis and right leg. Gwala says all the victims were taken to a nearby hospital…
A search and rescue police vehicle seen in Komatipoort, Mpumalanga were an SANDF member went missing. Rescue teams have recovered remains believed to be that of the missing South African National Defence Force (SANDF) member on the borderline of Mozambique and South Africa in Komatipoort, Mpumalanga. The two soldiers were swept by the Nkomati River…
Polokwane Magistrate’s Court. The Polokwane Magistrate’s Court in Limpopo has postponed to February 19, 2026, the case of one of the three suspects in the shooting incident in Saulsville, Atteridgeville, west of Pretoria. Twelve people were killed and 13 others were wounded in the incident, which happened earlier this month. The suspect was arrested on…
The Bekkersdal shooting crime scene, December 21, 2025. The case of the five people suspected to be linked to the shooting incident in Bekkersdal has been postponed to Monday next week in the Westonaria Magistrate’s Court west of Johannesburg. Nine people were killed in the incident, which happened at the KwaNoxolo tavern earlier this month….
A view of the collapsed double-storey building in Soweto. Johannesburg MMC for Economic Development, Nomoya Mnisi says the Xaba family will be relocated following the collapse of a double-storey building in Doornkop, Soweto, which claimed the lives of three of their family members, Hloniphile Xaba (60), her daughter Nqobile (24), and her granddaughter, Langelihle (one-year-old),…
SAPS members conduct search for missing SANDF soldiers. Rescue teams are continuing their search for the remains of the second missing SANDF member in Mpumalanga. This follows the discovery of remains believed to be those of another missing soldier on the border in Komatipoort on the border between Mozambique and South Africa on Monday. DNA…
Deputy Executive Mayor: Cllr. Nokuzola P Kolwapi. Police in the Garden Route District in the Western Cape have confirmed establishing a team to lead the investigation into the conduct of the Deputy Mayor of the Bitou Municipality in Plettenberg Bay. Nokuzola Kolwapi was captured discharging a gun, allegedly in celebration of her son’s initiation, in…
Members of the Gauteng Serious and Violent Crime Investigations team arrested one suspect on the Atteridgeville case of 12 counts of murder and 13 counts of attempted murder. Police have discovered a firearm that was used in the fatal shooting of twelve people and the wounding of 13 others in Saulsville in Attridgeville, west of…
