A metro police vehicle seen during an operation in Johannesburg. The City of Johannesburg has conceded that there are rising tensions between the city’s Metro Police Department (JMPD) officers and the South African Police Service. This after members of SAPS arrested seven JMPD officers in Bekkersdal on Gauteng’s West Rand last Friday. Members of JMPD’s…
A fatal shooting crime scene. A suspect arrested in connection with the Zithobeni tavern shooting incident in Bronkhorstspruit earlier this month is expected to appear in the local magistrate’s court on Thursday. The suspect was arrested on Tuesday. It is alleged that two men entered the tavern and demanded that one of the patrons hand over…
Court proceedings from the Limpopo pig farm murder trial, 07 August 2025. The murder trial against a Limpopo pig farmer and his co-accused has been postponed in the High Court in Polokwane, Limpopo. The second accused, Rudolph de Wet, who is now a state witness, has told the court that he was tortured by police…
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…
