By Thakira Desai After a week of gruelling searches and the discovery of a body positively identified as missing Courtney Pieters, the family was dealt another blow when police arrested a suspect, said to be a trusted family friend. Police spokesperson, FC van Wyk confirmed that a 40-year-old man was[…]
Turkish authorities have identified the gunman responsible for the attack on an elite nightclub that killed 39 people celebrating New Year, the foreign minister said Wednesday. “The identity of the person responsible for the Istanbul attack has been established,” Mevlut Cavusoglu told Anadolu news agency during a televised interview. He[…]
A suspect has been arrested in connection with the murder of Stellenbosch student Robyn Pearce, the family’s lawyer William Booth said on Wednesday. He said the man, believed to be a labourer who worked at the apartment building where Pearce’s body was found, was arrested shortly after 20:00. The man[…]
Western Cape police have arrested a suspect in the murder of a 20-year-old man in Hanover Park on Friday. Police on Friday said the suspect was in his twenties, and was arrested following three shootings in the embattled area on Thursday. Two people were killed and five were injured. “The[…]
A 35 year old man was stabbed to death at his home in Pontac Street in District Six on Wednesday after he was confronted by an intruder. Relatives say Ebrahim Ely was sleeping after working a nightshift when a man broke into his home and stabbed him at around midday.[…]
A State Security Agency employee implicated in the theft of R17m from the agency appeared in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on Monday. The case against William Mmotong was postponed to January 19, said Hawks spokesperson Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi. Mmotong, a driver at the SSA, was one of three men arrested[…]
Two suspects in the deadly Paris attacks claimed by ISIL were killed this month by coalition air strikes in Syria and Iraq, the US military said on Tuesday. French national Charaffe al-Mouadan, 27, a native of the St Denis suburb of Paris, was among 10 Islamic State of Iraq and[…]
The youngest convict in the 2012 Delhi gang rape case has been released after completion of three years of imprisonment. Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets of India’s capital on Sunday to protest the impending release of a juvenile convicted in the fatal gang rape that deeply shook the[…]
A second man has been arrested in connection with the attack at Rhodes Park in Kensington, Johannesburg, where two men were drowned and a woman was raped, Gauteng police said. Lieutenant-Colonel Lungelo Dlamini said the 22-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday in Yeoville. He is expected to appear in the[…]
Australian police have revealed that a 12-year-old is on the radar of counterterrorism authorities as Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull urged closer cooperation with Muslim leaders to combat a growing “terror” threat. The warnings came on Thursday, just days after the federal government announced controversial plans to bolster its counterterror laws.[…]
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