Hijackers have stolen a Cape Town traffic official’s car early on Tuesday morning and then used it to hijack another vehicle, while hours later the official car of an officer from the City’s Law Enforcement unit was also hijacked. One of Cape Town’s Law Enforcement (LE) unit officers was hijacked[…]
Western Cape police are non-compliant with the Domestic Violence Act (DVA), the province’s MEC for community safety (DoCs), Albert Fritz, said on Monday. “The DoCS has concluded the census project, monitoring the level of compliance of 150 police stations in the province with the Domestic Violence Act (DVA) 116 of[…]
Police are searching for two people who shot a patient in the head and killed him at a Durban hospital, while the health department re-evaluates its security measures after the incident. The armed men entered Clairwood Hospital in Mobeni at around 18:30 on Friday, said police spokesperson Captain Nqobile Gwala.[…]
Scammers are separating helpful South Africans from their money in what appears to be a wave of fraud that relies on hijacking WhatsApp accounts – and then simply asking for money. The scammers first take control of a victim’s phone number, usually by porting the number to a new service[…]
The mother of 12-year-old Michaela Williams has broke down in the Wynberg Magistrates Court shortly before the man accused of her daughter’s murder was due to appear. 40-year-old Beatrice Adams was escorted by friends and supporters out of the packed court room. A 48-year-old man is set to appear for[…]
Eskom says it is not planning to institute rotational power cuts on Monday despite a tight power system. In a status update on Monday morning the utility said that unplanned outages or breakdowns were at 13 867MW as at 6am, still far above its goal of 9 500MW. “Should we[…]
An alleged armed robber has been shot dead and another wounded following an armed robbery at a shop in Strand Main Road in Strand, Cape Town, paramedics said on Sunday. ER24 paramedics, along with another service, arrived on the scene at 10am on Saturday morning to find the local authorities[…]
South African Police Service (SAPS) detectives have arrested a suspect and are questioning two other possible suspects in connection with the robbery of 11 tourists in Khayelitsha in Cape Town last week, the Western Cape SAPS said on Sunday. “As part of the police investigation into the robbery of 11[…]
Eskom says it does not expect to implement load shedding on Sunday. The power utility says its technicians have successfully returned Koeberg Unit 1 to service after a planned outage, which has added an additional 900 megawatts to the system. Eskom says its teams will continue to work around the[…]
City of Cape Town mayoral committee member for economic opportunities and asset management James Vos has welcomed the swift action taken by the South African Police Service (SAPS) and Cape Town Tourism after a gang of armed men robbed a group of tourists in Khayelitsha in Cape Town on Friday.[…]
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