Car burglary 1 minute Police have identified the top hijacking hotspots across the most populated provinces for January to March of this year, with Ivory Park and Mamelodi East in Gauteng taking the first and second positions in the country respectively. Mamelodi East recorded an 80 percent increase in the number of hijackings year on…
FILE PHOTO: A man vapes at a coffeeshop. 1 minute The Heart and Stroke Foundation is alarmed by how the tobacco industry focusses on young customers through its marketing. This as today marks World No Tobacco Day. The global theme this year aims to expose industry tactics on tobacco and nicotine products, including vaping and…
A health agent prepares an anti-malaria injection. 1 minute The University of Cape Town (UCT) has played a pivotal role in developing an action plan to combat rising drug-resistant malaria in Southern and Eastern Africa. Senior lecturer at UCT, Stephanie Van Wyk says the initiative is supported by regional health ministers and is a significant…
Person with a knife 1 minute A woman has been stabbed to death, allegedly by her boyfriend, in Malamulele, Limpopo. The suspect has been arrested after initially fleeing the scene. Police say the victim was stabbed in her rental room in Malamulele Section A. The motive for the killing is unknown. Police spokesperson Malesela Ledwaba…
Prison cell 2 minutes The Nelson Mandela University (NMU) has welcomed the life sentence handed down by the George Magistrate’s Court in the Western Cape to a former student, for the murder of a fellow student at the George campus in June last year. Earlier this year, 24-year-old Luyanda Mahlanza was found guilty of murdering…
Retired Anti-Gang Unit Head, Major-General Andre Lincoln (left) with President Cyril Ramaphosa. 1 minute The African National Congress in the Western Cape has called upon the provincial government to grant Cape Town police Major-General André Lincoln an official Provincial Funeral. He died at home in the early hours of this morning. Lincoln was in his…
Prison cells 1 minute A former councilor in the Okahlamba Municipality at Bergville in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) has been sentenced to life imprisonment after the Ladysmith Regional Court found him guilty of murdering his fiancé and their three children. Forty-eight-old Michael Buthelezi was a DA councilor when there was a fire at his home in the…
Police graphic on CIT robbery, 2 minutes Three men believed to have been involved in a cash-in-transit heist on the R56 near Richmond in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) have been fatally wounded during shootouts with police in various areas around Durban Thursday night. A bystander was shot dead and a child wounded in a failed heist. KZN…
Depiction of violence against women. 1 minute The North West provincial government has called on victims of gender-based violence not to drop cases against their perpetrators. They made the request during a men’s march in Mahikeng. Crime statistics for the fourth quarter indicates that the province recorded a decline of 4.8 percent in gender-based violence…
2 minutes Residents of an Amanzimtoti apartment complex, south of Durban, have expressed shock after a police shootout led to the death of Philangenkosi Makhanya, the main suspect in the murder of 30-year-old Olorato Mongale. Philangenkosi Makhanya was killed in a shootout with the police. He is one of 3 people the police have been…
