Two men are expected to apply for bail when they appear in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday for the murder of Maitland bakery owner Manuel Correia. The 72-year-old businessman was shot in the face during an armed robbery at the Broadway Deli and Confectionery in Voortrekker Road on[…]
A Western Cape ward councillor’s house as well as two cars and a number of shacks were burnt down in a protest over housing at the weekend. A group of around 200 Paarl East residents had allegedly taken part in an illegal march in the area late on Friday evening[…]
A total of 6 602 firearms were lost and stolen from the police in the past five years, civil rights group AfriForum said on Tuesday. There were 3 576 firearms stolen and another 3 026 reported lost between January 2009 and June 2014, the organisation said in a statement. The[…]
Two cigarette vehicle heists on opposite ends of the country were thwarted on Wednesday. Three armed men were arrested. National police commissioner General Riah Phiyega said on Wednesday that the victories were the result of hard work by special task teams. Two men were nabbed in connection with a robbery in Muizenberg,[…]
A sharp increase in police fatalities since the beginning of the year has led to calls from the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) for an urgent redress into the countries firearms laws. The murder of a policeman in Mitchell’s Plain last week, shot in front of his young[…]
Twenty-one police officers were dismissed from the organisation at the end of July on charges including corruption, theft and defeating the ends of justice, national police said on Friday. The officers’ dismissals were part of national commissioner General Riah Phiyega’s effort to clean up and professionalise the SA Police Service,[…]
A Khayelitsha man was arrested after apparently stripping hubcaps and other items from a police minibus taxi and another taxi, Western Cape police said on Wednesday. Two constables were alerted and found the parked vehicles in Mandela Park on Tuesday morning with hubcaps, fire extinguishers, a jack and wheel spanners[…]
A 36-year-old woman was arrested at the Cape Town International Airport for the possession of cocaine on Thursday. Police spokesperson Constable Noloyiso Rwexana said in a statement that cocaine with an estimated street value of R300 000 was found in the woman’s luggage, stashed inside a Salticrax box. She said[…]
A bomb attack killed two Bahraini policemen on duty in the mainly Shi’ite village of Sitra, south of the capital Manama, the Interior Ministry said on Tuesday, days after the government said it had disrupted an arms smuggling plot linked to Iran. “A terrorist bombing targeted policemen on duty in[…]
Reddam House Constantia, a prominent private school in Cape Town, has confirmed that surveillance cameras have been fitted in all music rooms where private teaching takes place. This is one of the many steps it has taken in the wake of allegations against one of its former music teachers, who appeared[…]
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