The Hawks’ National Priority Violent Crimes (NPVC) team arrested a suspect in connection with the murder of Sergeant Sithembiso Mnatwana. The police official who was attached to Cape Town Central police station was shot and killed in September last year in front of his residence in Samora Machell. The case[…]
The presence of mind of a 19-year-old woman saved her entire family from getting trapped under the rubble of their house when two deadly earthquakes struck southern Turkiye, Anadolu News Agency reports. Umit Aslanoglu got out of her bed when her dog started barking incessantly. Just as she felt the first tremors,[…]
A woman has been arrested at Eersterivier, Cape Town, after 300 boxes of stolen liquor worth R1.8 million were found in her possession. Police spokesperson, Ndakhe Gwala, says this follows an incident where a truck transporting the same alcohol brand was hijacked in Maitland. “The team received information from crime[…]
An Israeli woman accused of spying for Iran and put under house arrest in December has attempted to commit suicide on Thursday. According to Israeli paramedics, the woman had tried to overdose on pills and was taken to the hospital in critical condition. In January, Shin Bet shared that they[…]
An Indonesian woman suspected of planning a suicide bomb attack in the southern Philippines was arrested on Saturday in a pre-dawn raid, the military said. The arrest comes less than two months after 15 people were killed and 74 others wounded when two suicide bombers, both of them women, blew[…]
A man accused of beating the mother of his four-month-old child to death will spend Christmas behind bars. The bail application of Andrew Makeleni, who appeared in the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court on Monday, was postponed to January 8. The State has indicated they would oppose his release. The decision was[…]
Four people, one of them a minor, have been arrested after a woman was stabbed to death in a play park in Macassar, Western Cape police said on Sunday. Captain FC van Wyk said the men were aged between 17 and 21. The 40-year-old woman was attacked in the park[…]
Shark spotters saved an elderly woman from near drowning at Muizenberg beach after she was found floating face down at the water’s edge, the City of Cape Town said on Tuesday. In a statement, mayoral committee member for energy, environmental and spatial planning Councillor Johan van der Merwe said the[…]
The woman found dead at a Camps Bay hotel in Cape Town on Wednesday is believed to have been strangled. This according to a family member of murdered American Gabriella Kabrins Alban. A Guatemalan man, understood to be her boyfriend, appeared in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court on a murder[…]
A man has been arrested after the body of a 39-year-old woman was found at a Camps Bay hotel on Wednesday afternoon. Details surrounding the incident remain sketchy, but it is understood the murdered woman was an American citizen on holiday in Cape Town. The 41-year-old suspect is believed to[…]
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