An immigration expert has weighed in on the case of U.S. rapper Yasiin Bey (formerly Mos Def), who was arrested in Cape Town last week for allegedly travelling on fraudulent documents, describing the case as a perfect example of the inefficiencies in South Africa’s new immigration laws. Bey, who has[…]
US musician and actor Mos Def, aka Yasiin Bey, never entered the country using a world passport, the Home Affairs Department said on Wednesday. “He has entered South Africa 10 times, and has always entered the country on a visitor’s visa [90 days exemption] using a US Passport, not a[…]
A Cape Town man recounts his experience at the hands of police officers who detained him for filming an arrest, reports GroundUp. Cape Town – Late on Sunday, January 3, I happened upon an arrest taking place in a street close to my home in Observatory. The arrestee was pinned[…]
A Queenstown Public Order Policing Unit that was deployed at Dutywa in King William’s Town have arrested two suspects in connection with a hijacking in Cape Town recently. According to police spokesperson, Captain Jackson Manatha, the suspects, aged 32 and 34, were found in possession of four unlicensed pistols with[…]
A 65-year-old man is expected to appear in the Goodwood Magistrate’s Court on Thursday after a hydroponic dagga laboratory was discovered on a Richwood smallholding. The bust on the premises, situated outside Durbanville, was made on Tuesday following an investigation by Western Cape police detectives, police spokesperson Captain FC van[…]
A German preacher was arrested in Germany on Tuesday for recruiting fighters for a militant group in Syria and purchasing and delivering military equipment, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office said. Sven Lau, 35, is suspected of recruiting Germans living in and around the western German city of Duesseldorf to fight abroad[…]
Around 2,000 people protested on Friday over the arrest of two prominent journalists on charges of espionage and terrorist propaganda, a case that has revived long-standing criticism of Turkey’s record on press freedom under President Tayyip Erdogan. A court on Thursday ordered the arrest of editor-in-chief of the Cumhuriyet newspaper[…]
A stolen vehicle and a gun under the driver’s seat. This is what Cape Town Metro Police found when they pulled over a police reservist and his two male passengers on Wednesday morning. The three men were travelling in a VW Polo Vivo on the N2 when tactical response unit[…]
Iranian authorities have arrested a cartoonist and sent him to prison to complete a suspended jail sentence, his lawyer said on Tuesday, joining a growing list of journalists, artists and activists detained on security charges. Hadi Heidari, a cartoonist at the Shahrvand newspaper, was arrested on Monday and sent to[…]
A fish seller was arrested for perjury after allegedly fabricating a story about an armed robbery at his Khayelitsha home, Western Cape police said on Tuesday. Andiswa Cubeni, 27, appeared in the Khayelitsha Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, Captain Frederick van Wyk confirmed. According to a statement, Cubeni opened a case[…]
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