A family was killed in their home on a private golf estate in Stellenbosch on Tuesday morning, Western Cape police said. It is believed the father, 55, mother, 54, and 22-year-old son were attacked in their home in the De Zalze Golf Estate in the early hours of the morning,[…]
Images of a slain protester, blood running down her face and hair as her body was lifted from the ground, have touched off powerful criticism of Egypt’s government on the anniversary of a revolution initially sparked by police brutality. The photos and videos show a heavily armed police unit, with[…]
New evidence has come to light in an investigation into a string of murder and rape cases in the Kensington area of Cape Town, Western Cape police said on Friday. Lt-Col Andre Traut believed the evidence would strengthen a related criminal case against a 30-year-old man who appeared in the[…]
Police negotiators are trying to launch a dialogue with the Charlie Hebdo shooting suspects believed to be holed up in an industrial building north of Paris, French Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet says. “The priority is to resolve this crisis in the most serene way possible, which means without violence,”[…]
When abusers are not reported to the police immediately, they become emboldened, Police Minister Nkosinathi Nhleko said on Thursday. “This nation needs to talk to itself on how best it wants to proceed, as there can never be a policeman or woman in every household,” he said in a speech[…]
The police ministry will not comment in the media about Hawks boss Anwa Dramat, after his lawyers gave Police Minister Nkosinathi Nhleko until Monday to lift his suspension. “Dramat and his lawyer decided to make it a media issue. It is really not what we are going to do. The[…]
Video footage taken at Groote Schuur’s maternity ward is being studied after a 13-day-old baby was kidnapped from the Cape Town hospital. The little boy was asleep in his cot next to his mother’s bed when he was taken. A nurse woke up the mother at 2:45am to ask her[…]
The number of injured from the Shanghai New Year’s Eve crush increased to 49, with 36 people dead, after city police said they underestimated the size of the crowd, news reports said Friday. “Police failed to expect the number of people for this event,” Shanghai’s Huangpu branch police deputy commander[…]
Police said Wednesday they shot dead an African American teenager after he allegedly pointed a handgun at an officer in a town near Ferguson, Missouri, scene of a prior police shooting that sparked nationwide protests. St. Louis County police said in a statement that an officer from the city of[…]
Western Cape police have called for calm, saying media reports of a serial killer targeting women in the city are “pure speculation”. Police have launched an investigation into the murders of six women, whose naked bodies were found at the Century City and Acacia train stations over the past ten[…]
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