The tragic murder of five-year-old Valentino Grootetjie who was brutally shot in the back of the head on Saturday by a gangster in Lavender Hill has horrified community members and grown the already disproportionate sense of danger for those living in gang-ridden areas. The little boy was playing in his[…]
Two medical doctors, who were arrested for culpable homicide earlier on Tuesday, have been released on bail and their case has been postponed. Doctors Peter Beale and Abdullhay Munshi appeared briefly in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court hours after their arrest. The two allegedly performed botched surgeries on minor children, resulting[…]
A man described as one of the most wanted criminals in the Netherlands has been arrested in Dubai, according to authorities. Ridouan Taghi, the alleged head of a cocaine-trafficking gang known as “Angels of Death”, was detained after a joint operation that involved local police, Dutch authorities and the Interpol, the state-run Emirates[…]
The City of Cape Town says that although the City faces criticism for wasting electricity, the continued burning of streetlamps during the day serves as a deterrent against vandalism and infrastructural theft. According to the executive director for energy at the City of Cape Town, Kadri Nassiep, it is more[…]
The brutal murder and abuse case of 18-month-old Jeremiah Ruiters has finally seen justice served, according to Cheslyn Steenberg of the Wake Up Kensington Campaign. On Wednesday, Ameerodien Peters was convicted in the Western Cape High Court for raping and murdering young Jeremiah on June 24 2017 and the young[…]
At least 3 patients were killed after scores of lawyers clad in business suits besieged a hospital in Pakistan, storming the building and attacking staff and patients alike. The crowd was eventually dispersed by police tear gas. The angry mob descended upon the Punjab Institute of Cardiology in Lahore on[…]
South African law enforcement officials are once again in the public spotlight, only this time it’s due to what has been called out by some as an abuse of power against a woman too afraid to stop for blue lights until she was in the public eye. The woman seen[…]
Criminals have been targeting motorists along the freeways of Cape Town, hurling stones at cars travelling the busy highways at night, according to local law enforcement. In Simonsvlei, a woman driving her husband’s car was last week killed after someone threw a brick that hit the vehicle, triggering the fatal crash. READ: Four killed[…]
Cape Town criminal law veteran Vernon Jantjies received an offer he could not refuse. But when he could not deliver on his client’s demand to keep him out of jail at all costs, he paid with his life. Police spent the past week scouring the Cape Flats for two gunmen[…]
All four of the men accused of a grisly rape and murder of a young Indian veterinarian have been shot dead by police, killed around the same area the young vet’s badly burned remains were discovered. The men had reportedly been taken to an area near the initial crime scene[…]
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