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Former Ukhozi FM presenter and Jacob Zuma supporter in handcuffs on Monday.Image: Sandile Ndlovu

WATCH | Jacob Zuma supporter and former Ukhozi presenter leaves police headquarters in handcuffs for Gauteng

Former Ukhozi FM presenter and Jacob Zuma supporter Ngizwe Mchunu left police headquarters in Durban in handcuffs on Monday and is headed to Gauteng to face charges. The police would not immediately confirm the charges but Mchunu —…

Police recovered thousands of rands worth of looted goods, including beds, electronic appliances and mag wheels, in and around Durban on MondayImage: Lirandzu Themba

WATCH | Police recover looted goods including beds‚ electronic goods and mag wheels

On Monday police recovered thousands of rands worth of items stolen from warehouses and retail stores in Durban during widespread looting in KwaZulu-Natal last week. Police minister Bheki Cele‚ who was scheduled to visit Pietermaritzburg…

People flee after looting a Cambridge food store in Vosloorus, east of Johannesburg, earlier this week.Image: Alaister Russell/The Sunday Times

Government lifts ban on large gatherings in bid to quell unrest

The government has lifted the ban on gatherings with immediate effect. In a notice published in the government gazette on July 14‚ co-operative governance and traditional affairs (Cogta) minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said regulation 21…

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Mob sets mall in Vosloorus on fire — several shops looted, M2 closed in Gauteng

A violent mob on Monday morning set Naledi Mall in Vosloorus alight, Ekurhuleni disaster and emergency management services said. “I can confirm that we have received a call that Naledi Mall is on fire. Firefighters can’t access the scene…

Traffic on the N3 between Durban and Pietermaritzburg was backlogged for several kilometres due to protest action.Image: Vernon Moodley

Police deployed to Nkandla as protest action grows in KZN

The police were deployed to Nkandla in KwaZulu-Natal on Friday morning. The deployment came after widespread protests in and around Durban following a viral message calling for a “#ShutdownKZN” protest in support of former president Jacob…

A policeman was shot dead after allegedly opening fire at arresting officers who had apprehended him and others for allegedly stealing bricks. Stock photo.Image: 123RF/Pop Nukoonrat

Cop killed while allegedly stealing from construction site in Cape Town

An off-duty cop from Khayelitsha‚ alleged to be with a gang of alleged thieves who were caught red-handed early on Monday‚ has died after a shoot-out with officers who stumbled onto them. Brig Novela Potelwa said Harare police who were on…

Restrictions in place to curb the spread of the coronavirus have put a hold on the training of police recruits. File photo.Image: Sandile Ndlovu

Police put brakes on training new recruits as it warns of job hoaxes

About 7‚000 police recruits will have to wait a little longer to start their training. This comes after the SA Police Service (SAPS) announced it has put on hold the recruitment and training of police trainees due to the Covid-19…

The Constitutional Court will on Tuesday hear a case involving a woman who is taking on the police over their alleged failure to properly search for her when she was missing or to find her rapists.Image: JAMES OATWAY

Woman takes police to ConCourt for not finding her or catching her rapists

In December 2010‚ a woman was assaulted‚ dragged into bushes‚ tied up‚ blindfolded and raped‚ apparently by more than one man‚ for more than 15 hours. Now she has taken her case to the highest court in the land‚ arguing that police failed…

An elderly farm foreman survived a brutal attack near Zastron on Sunday. Stock photo.Image: 123RF/Paul Fleet

Farm attackers try to drown foreman in septic tank

A 77-year-old farm foreman survived a horror attack in which he was stabbed‚ tortured and forced into a septic tank‚ where he was pelted with stones. Three attackers attempted to drown Simon Makhotha in the septic tank on a farm in the…

DA leader John Steenhuisen says Julius Malema’s threat to police officers is ‘hypocrisy of the highest order’ and the EFF leader should give up his security detail provided by the state. File photo.Image: Veli Nhlapo

‘If you’re so anti-police‚ give up your police security detail‚’ Steenhuisen tells Malema

DA leader John Steenhuisen has challenged leader Julius Malema to give up his “police security detail” after the EFF leader’s recent outburst about the police. During a weekend webcast hosted by the party’s new spokesperson‚ Siviwe…

EFF leader Julius Malema told a rally in the Free State, ‘We will not only fight [the police] at the picket lines. We will fight them in their homes, with their own families. We are not scared of the police.’Image: Supplied

‘He’s crossed the line’: Cele slams Malema’s call for EFF to fight police

Police minister Bheki Cele has called on police to protect themselves should they come under attack. This follows statements EFF leader Julius Malema made at the weekend, calling on party members to fight police officers. Cele condemned…

An Eastern Cape woman who was raped on Sunday morning overpowered her attacker and managed to get him to the police.Image: File

Eastern Cape woman catches her rapist and hands him over to cops

An alleged rapist from Ngqeleni‚ in the Eastern Cape‚ was nabbed by his own victim‚ who then turned him over to the police. In a statement‚ police said the 21-year-old man had attacked a 41-year-old woman on Sunday morning. “It is alleged…

Police minister Bheki Cele responded to questions from MPs on Tuesday. File photo.Image: Jackie Clausen

Over 270,000 arrested for breaking lockdown rules: Bheki Cele

More than 270,000 people were arrested for contravening the lockdown regulations in the past three months, police minister Bheki Cele revealed in parliament. BusinessLIVE reported that of the 276,607 arrested since the declaration of the…

Lockdown regulations specify that people can travel freely to see a doctor or visit a pharmacy. Image: Elvis Ntombela

Eastern Cape couple’s nightmare journey to help sick infant

A rural couple taking their sick infant to a family doctor turned to the Matatiele mayor in desperation for help after they were refused entry into the town by police at a roadblock on Monday. The couple, Monwabisi Mafunda, 63, and his…

Two police officers were killed during a shootout with members of the National Intervention Unit on Thursday. Image: iStockphoto/Gallo Images

Two cops killed in shootout with intervention unit in KZN

Two police officers were shot dead during a shootout with members of the National Intervention Unit (NIU) in KwaZulu-Natal on Thursday. Police spokesperson Brig Vishnu Naidoo said the incident occurred in the Dalton area, about 49km from…