Snow clings to branches during below-freezing temperatures. 1 minute The South African Weather Service(SAWS) has issued a weather warning for extremely low temperatures in Johannesburg, Gauteng from Wednesday. The cold spell is expected to last for the rest of the week. City of Johannesburg Emergency Management Services has encouraged residents to use all heating devices…
File Image: Bullets seen at a crime scene. 1 minute Police have confirmed that two cash-in-transit and murder suspects have been killed in a shootout with officers in Boksburg on Gauteng’s East Rand. A Hawks tactical team and SAPS members who have been following the case from KwaZulu-Natal traced the two to a house in…
1 minute The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has confirmed that it will not prosecute a case of the sexual assault of a seven-year-old girl that was presented to prosecutors in Matatiele Magistrate’s Court in November last year. NPA spokesperson Advocate Mthunzi Mhaga says the prosecutors assessed the contents of the docket and concluded that there was…
Phala Phala farm in Limpopo. 2 minutes The trial of the three accused in the February 2020 theft at President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Phala Phala farm will start tomorrow in the Modimolle Regional Court in Limpopo. Immanuela David and siblings Floriana and Ndilinasho Joseph allegedly broke into Ramaphosa’s farm and stole over $580 000 that had been…
Broken glass from a crash seen on the road. 1 minute One person has died and two others were seriously injured in a head-on collision on the R102 between Humansdorp and Tsitsikama in the Eastern Cape. Transport MEC’s spokesperson Makhaya Komisa says the crash last night involved a bakkie and a seven-seater passenger vehicle. Komisa…
A crime scene were a shooting happen cordoned off. 2 minutes KwaZulu-Natal Premier Thamsanqa Ntuli is expected to visit a crime scene where eight people were shot and killed in Umlazi, south of Durban. Ntuli will be joined by the KZN Police Commissioner General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi. According to the police, the victims were inside a…
Handcuffs used to effect an arrest. 1 minute More than 700 suspects have been arrested through the police’s Operation Shanela in Diepsloot, north of Johannesburg. The area is known for its high crime rate. Police say more than one hundred people were apprehended for GBV-related crimes, 28 for being in the country illegally and 13…
Police graphic with crime scene tape and bullets. 2 minutes Police Minister Senzo Mchunu has condemned the killing of eight people, six men and two women, in Umlazi, south of Durban, in KwaZulu-Natal. According to the police, the victims were inside a dwelling at the Zama informal settlement when an unknown number of suspects entered…
FILE IMAGE | A confiscated gun that was used at a shooting. 2 minutes KwaZulu-Natal Premier Thamsanqa Ntuli has urged people to work with the police to fight crime and root out illegal firearms. Ntuli was speaking at the crime scene where eight people were shot and killed at the Zamani Transit Camp in Umlazi,…
Police graphic with crime scene tape and bullets. 1 minute Eight people have been shot and killed at an informal settlement in Umlazi, south of Durban. Police spokesperson Robert Netshiunda says the victims were inside a dwelling when an unknown number of suspects entered and opened fire, killing all of the victims at the scene….
