Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan‚ through his legal team‚ on Wednesday sent a letter demanding answers from the Hawks over its investigation into the so-called rogue unit at the SA Revenue Service when he was national commissioner. The unit is alleged to have spied on people. Gordhan misses Hawks’ 27 questions[…]
Although South African Airways (SAA) chairperson Dudu Myeni was an important part of the Hawks’ investigation into the airline, she was not being investigated herself, Hawks boss Lieutenant-General Berning Mthandazo Ntlemeza said on Wednesday. “For the record, Miss Dudu Myeni is not being investigated by the Hawks,” Ntlemeza said in[…]
Those behind the theft of millions in foreign currency from the State Security Agency in Pretoria knew exactly what they were doing, the Hawks said on Wednesday. “Whether it’s an inside job or not is a matter that we are also looking into,” spokesperson Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi said. It was[…]
The Hawks have established a new task team with the hopes of clamping down on cases where parents are accused of selling their children. The move comes after two such cases were reported this year, although neither bore any indication of being linked to a organised crime syndicate. A 20-year-old[…]
Western Cape Hawks boss Maj-Gen Yolisa Matakata has been appointed as the new deputy national head. Matakata enlisted in the SA Police Service in 1995 and has held several crucial positions since, Hawks spokesperson Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi said. She worked in crime intelligence for 15 years and was appointed head[…]
A female traffic official based at the New Ottery Testing Center is due to appear in court on Thursday on charges of corruption. The licensing official and a driving school instructor were arrested in a sting operation after taking a R3 500 bribe from a driver’s licence applicant, the City[…]
A group of six men who tried to rob a general dealer in Epping, Cape Town on Friday, were career criminals, the Hawks have said. Four of the six had criminal histories dating back to 1990, spokesperson Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi said. Police shot and killed three of them, seriously injured[…]
A 20-year-old woman has been arrested for trying to sell her baby for R5 000 on Gumtree, the Hawks said on Thursday. She was arrested in Pietermaritzburg after an undercover agent arranged to buy the 19-month-old baby from her, Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi said. The child was handed to a social[…]
The new head of the Hawks, Mthandazo Berning Ntlemeza, pipped four other candidates to the post, Police Minister Nathi Nhleko said on Thursday. This despite being referred to as dishonest and lacking in integrity and honour by North Gauteng High Court Judge Elias Matojane. Matojane said Ntlemeza had withheld information and[…]
Suspended Gauteng Hawks head Major-General Shadrack Sibiya has been fired, Hawks spokesperson Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi has confirmed. This was in line with the recommendations of a disciplinary inquiry into his role in the illegal deportation of five Zimbabweans. ”We do not know whether he is going to challenge the decision[…]
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