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…
Justice and Constitutional Development Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi and Eastern Cape Premier Oscar Mabuyane attended the reopened inquest into the deaths of the Cradock Four at Gqeberha High Court on June 3, 2025. High-ranking officials in the apartheid police, Gerrit Erasmus and Izak “Krappies” Engelbrecht, have denied any involvement in the killing of Fort Calata, Matthew…
Informal trader. The Socio-Economic Right Institute of South Africa (SERI) is taking the City of Johannesburg to court over the removal of informal traders in parts of the city. In recent weeks, the municipality has implemented its clean-up and by-law enforcement programme as part of reclaiming the city. The initiative has also seen City officials…
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…
FILE | Former Police Minister Bheki Cele speaks at a press briefing. Former Police Minister Bheki Cele will appear before Parliament’s Ad hoc Committee over the next two days. The committee was established following allegations of criminal infiltration, corruption and political interference in the criminal justice system made by KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner, Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi. Cele,…
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…
File photo: Bullets, a gun and police tape pictured. Witness B told the Madlanga Commission that the Vereeniging engineer Armand Swart was not the intended target when he was assassinated. She says that Swart’s murder was a case of mistaken identity. Swart, an employee at Q-Tech, was shot 23 times while sitting in his vehicle…
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…
