Proficient burglars can ransack an empty house in just two minutes, but thanks to a united front by Gonubie SAPS, the community, and private security, crime in Gonubie has plummeted nearly 50% in the past month. According to Stats SA’s…
Five thousand rand. That’s the sum a warrant officer‚ subsequently dismissed from the force‚ demanded from a suspect charged with reckless and negligent driving in exchange for their police case docket to be stolen. Frederick George de…
Police in Coligny are investigating four counts of murder and an inquest docket after a 38-year-old mother allegedly poisoned herself and four of her six sons. Two sons and her husband survived. The 38-year-old and the boys‚ aged between…
The provincial SAPS has been left severely handicapped after safety and security MEC Weziwe Tikana-Gxothiwe’s response to parliamentary questions posed by the DA revealed that all four helicopters have been grounded. Three of the…
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…
President Cyril Ramaphosa has condemned the surge in murders of women and children in SA, saying it has been “a dark and shameful week for us as a nation”. He called on Saturday all South Africans to end the culture of silence around…
Plato, possibly the most significant philosopher of ancient Athens and initiator of the first institution of learning in the Western World about 2,400 years ago, posed a very powerful question that has echoed through civilisations and…
A child abduction emergency alert system launched in SA on Thursday has an “Amber Alert” feature which when activated will appear in Facebook users’ news feeds if they are close to the town or city where the child was last seen. The…
King William’s Town police seek the community’s assistance to identify a female body that was found recently. This after a body of an unknown female was found on the gravel road from town to Balasi Valley/eZinyoka Location on the January…
A teacher from Clanwilliam in the Western Cape has been stabbed to death in her apartment. A 24-year-old man was arrested in connection with the murder of 26-year-old Allison Plaatjies. Her injuries were so severe she was allegedly…
Cambridge SAPS Capt Steve Du Rand was placed fifth in the over-50s division at the International Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation 2019 Championships in Midrand, in Gauteng, recently. The competition saw more than over 3000 participants…
The nearest police station is 120km away Sihle* did not report an alleged attempted rape to police for three days because she could not afford to get to the nearest police station, 120km away. Hers is one of many rape cases allegedly left…
Teenagers who allegedly hijacked a car from a motorist at knife point were no match for the flying squad when they tried to speed away from police in the Eastern Cape. The 45-year-old motorist’s car was allegedly hijacked in Ross Gradwell…
A 69-year-old man allegedly shot his seven-year-old son before turning the gun on himself in Panorama, Cape Town, in the early hours of Sunday morning. The child was a pupil at Panorama Primary School in Welgelegen, where parents, staff…
While the nation grapples with gender-based violence in the past few days, an Eastern Cape woman disappeared on August 3 while travelling from Tsolo. Nolundi Ludidi,30, was initially reported as a missing person at Tsolo SAPS, and later…
