National Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola speaking at 27th INTERPOL African Regional Conference at the City Century Conference Centre in Cape Town, 27 August 2025. National Police Commissioner General Fannie Masemola says transnational organised crime remains a major threat across the continent. Masemola was speaking at the opening of the 27th International Interpol Conference in Cape…
FILE | Compliance inspections conducted at spaza shops. 2 minutes Several foreign owned spaza shops have been closed in Soweto after they were found with expired food items and non labelled goods. City of Johannesburg officials, together with the police, raided spaza shops in Dobsonville and Diepkloof on Friday. The raids follow incidents of foodborne…
An illegal miner is arrested after resurfacing from underground a shaft in Sabie, Mpumalanga. 1 minute Eight illegal miners facing charges of kidnapping, illegal mining and contravening the Immigration Act made a brief appearance in the Sabie Magistrate’s Court in Mpumalanga. The eight are suspected of being the kingpins who kidnapped the other foreign nationals…
Graphic of murder scene. 19-year-old Lungelo Sithole, accused of being involved in the murder of the 19-year-old Lusanda Mathabela in Mbombela, Mpumalanga, says he intends to plead not guilty. Sithole was arrested together with his co-accused, Katlego Mokoena, after Mathabela was stabbed to death at her home in Mattafin late last year. Sithole took to…
Former Reaction Unit 6 leader Johan Marais appears in the High Court in Pretoria on July 10, 2025. Former apartheid-era police officer Johan Marais has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for the murder of student activist Caiphus Nyoka. Marais, who led the Reaction Unit 6, was found guilty of Nyoka’s premeditated murder in…
Court gavel. Twelve men are expected to appear in the Zeerust Magistrate’s Court in the North West on Tuesday. They were arrested last Tuesday following shooting incidents in Marula Kop village in the Masebudule area. Police say preliminary investigations indicate that a conflict between two security companies led to the attack in which a man…
Court proceedings in Asbestos case. 1 minute The trial within a trial in the R255 million asbestos roof removal case has been postponed to Wednesday in the Free State High Court, after a state witness fell ill last week and is still unwell today. Judge Phillip Loubser was expected to deliver a ruling on whether…
Handcuffs and fingerprints. 1 minute Former Municipal Manager of the Doctor JS Moroka Municipality in Mpumalanga, Thami Khubeka, will either serve two years in jail or pay a R50 000 fine. The Middelburg Specialised Commercial Crimes Court in Mbombela handed down his sentence yesterday. It had found Khubeka guilty of contravening the Finance Management Act. …
MK Party President Jacob Zuma and newly appointed SG Floyd Shivambu 2 minutes Newly appointed uMkhonto weSizwe Party Secretary-General Floyd Shivambu has clarified his recent U-turn on former President Jacob Zuma. This comes as Shivambu and many others were at the forefront of Zuma’s removal following Public Protector Thuli Madonsela’s investigation into the multi-million-rand upgrade…
Empty benches in court. The trial of three people accused of stealing a large amount of US dollars at President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Phala Phala farm is expected to resume in the Modimolle Regional Court in Limpopo on Friday. In the last court appearance, a fourth state witness was declared hostile. The court found that he…
