Police believe that a man shot dead on a Cape Town beach on Monday morning was driving a stolen car. The body of the the 26-year-old man was was found near the vehicle, which was stuck in the sand at Blue Waters Beach in Strandfontein. Police said on Tuesday that[…]
Police need more training in dealing with domestic violence cases, a Limpopo-based victim support group said on Monday. Often when police intervened in a domestic dispute without the intervention of social workers, women and children were killed, Thohoyandou Victim Empowerment Programme’s legal officer Tshilidzi Masikhwa said. She was reacting to[…]
National Police Commissioner Riah Phiyega on Thursday dodged questions about the Marikana report released by President Jacob Zuma last month. Phiyega was attending her first public engagement since Zuma announced that the commission of inquiry, which probed the deaths of 44 people during a 2012 strike at Lonmin’s Platinum Mine in[…]
A US judge has ruled that evidence exists to charge two police officers in Cleveland, Ohio, over the fatal shooting of a 12-year-old black boy. The judge’s ruling is largely symbolic because he cannot compel prosecutors to charge the officers in the death of Tamir Rice last November. “This court[…]
Members of the Manenberg Community Police Forum (CPF) along with community activists were ecstatic as they were sworn in as Commissioners of Oath by Cape Town Advocate Hishaam Mohamed on Monday. The idea of community workers providing the service of a Commissioner of Oaths to the community stemmed from a[…]
Surrey Estate was the scene of chaos late Monday night following a shooting and attempted robbery at a convenience store at the busy Engen petrol station. Armed suspects stormed into the Primrose Supermarket in Surrey Estate on the corner of Comet and Ruimte road and held up staff and customers.[…]
An armed gang hit a petrol station in Cape Town in the early hours of Monday morning, just two days after a similar incident nearby. Four unidentified suspects entered the petrol station on the N2 near Macassar around 02:30 and ordered employees to lie down, said police spokesperson Captain FC Van[…]
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has apologised to the nation for human right abuses committed by the police. “I apologise to every Egyptian citizen who has been subjected to any abuse. I am accountable for anything that happens to an Egyptian citizen,” Sisi said on Sunday, a year after he[…]
An armed gang is on the loose after robbing a shop and blowing up an ATM in Somerset West, Western Cape police said on Sunday. The seven gang members targeted a shop in Abelia Street, Heldervue around 07:00 on Saturday, said police spokesperson Tembinkosi Kinana. They took an undisclosed amount[…]
The burnt bodies of three men were discovered in Lwandle, Cape Town, on Sunday morning, Western Cape police said. Officers had driven into Asanda Village around 02:30 to follow up on complaint of a murder taking place, said police spokesperson, Colonel Tembinkosi Kinana. “…when they arrived at the scene, they[…]
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