Introducing The Cobras Mountain Protection Team. A privately funded initiative dedicated to creating safer mountain experiences for both locals and tourists in Cape Town has recently launched in partnership with City Bowl and Atlantic Seaboard businesses, including property developer Blok, and private individuals. Dedicated guards are now actively patrolling routes around Lion’s Head, Signal Hill, […]
The Provincial Head Major General Mboiki Obed Ngwenya expressed his delight and lauded the swift fruitful joint effort by the Interim Cash-In–Transit (CIT) task team of the Hawks with provincial Tactical Response Team (TRT) in locating the CIT suspects within a few hours of the incident on 29 July 2024. It is alleged that on
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A KwaZulu-Natal primary school teacher has been shot dead in full view of pupils. The incident happened on Monday morning at the Phikiswayo Primary School in Ntuzuma, north of Durban. The motive for the shooting is unknown. eNCA’s Dasen Thathiah was on the scene. Local authorities were also on the scene for assistance and further
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Engen employee and De Waterkant local Mike Rushton has helped raise funds for non-profit organisation, Volunteer Wildfire Services (VWS). Utilising Engen’s Employee Community Partnership Programme (ECPP), the company’s Trading Operations Manager (and volunteer firefighter) was eligible for a R5 000 grant, which will used for fire equipment, PPE, equipment maintenance, and fuel. Engen’s ECPP seeks to create
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North West Premier Kagiso Lazarus Mokgosi condemns the mass killing of eight people at extension 13 Kanana Township in the City of Matlosana Local Municipality. Preliminary investigation indicates that five men entered the tavern in the evening of Friday, 26th of July 2024. They refused to be searched at the entrance and a scuffle ensued.
A Cash-in-Transit heist has forced the N6 road between East London and Komani near Maclean Town to be closed as the spot is an active crime scene. It is alleged that the robbers have used explosives to bomb the cash van and access the money. Law enforcement is on the scene along with other rapid
A former Crime Intelligence (CI) Warrant Officer aged 48 will appear in the Bloemfontein Magistrates’ Court on Monday, 29 July 2024 for allegedly defrauding the Secret Services Account (SSA). He was arrested in Botshabelo on Sunday, 28 July 2024 by Serious Corruption Investigation detectives of the Hawks. The suspect was a member of Free State
Several Response Vehicles, a Police Vehicle and buildings were damaged by fifteen suspects who opened fire with high calibre rifles after robbing a jewellery store in the Phoenix- KZN. A Security Officer was deprived of his firearm and a policeman and a civilian were shot by the suspects during a robbery at the Phoenix Plaza
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Organised Crime detectives initiated an investigation as two suspects were arrested following the discovery of a warehouse where cannabis was cultivated. After monitoring vital information about suspicious activities at a farm in the Philadelphia policing precinct, an integrated operation led by the Provincial Organised Crime detectives including police members of Philadelphia SAPS pounced on the
Khangelani Mtyida (42) was sentenced to nine (9) years direct imprisonment by the East London Regional Court on Friday, 19 July 2024, for armed robbery and kidnapping. Whilst his co-accused Siyabonga Hesewu (40) passed on during the court proceedings. On 21 October 2014 at approximately 10:40, a sales representative from British American Tobacco was delivering
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