South African Police Service (SAPS)
SIU Pounces On Free State’s Masilonyana Local Municipality Over Suspected Tender Irregularities
The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has pounced on a Free State municipality over suspected tender…
Endumeni Municipal Officials Who Sold R1.7M Grader For A Song Face New Probe
A report to the council of Endumeni (Dundee) Local Municipality in north-western KwaZulu-Natal has recommended…
Border Breach: SANDF Battles Illegal Crossings And Smuggling At SA-Zimbabwe
Musina, Limpopo – The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) is battling to contain illegal…
Police Launch Manhunt For Foreign Pastor After KZN House Used To Manufacture Fake Hair Products
The police in KwaZulu-Natal are hunting for a foreign pastor who runs a church in…
North West Official Appears In Court On 54 Counts Of Fraud
The Deputy Director of the North West Department of Public Works and Roads, Mmapitsi Virginia Seate appeared in the Mmabatho Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, November 13, facing 54 counts of fraud related to falsified travel expense claims. According to a joint statement by the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks) and the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), Seate (51) was arrested earlier in the day by the Mahikeng-based Serious Commercial Crime Investigation unit. Her arrest follows an investigation into alleged fraudulent…
‘Mashatile’s VIP Protectors Learned From National Assembly Bullies’
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema has likened the incident in which Deputy President Paul Mashatile’s security detail assaulted motorists on the N1 highway in Johannesburg to the actions of parliamentary police officers who have unleashed violence on opposition members in the past. Malema was speaking during a media briefing held at Uncle Tom’s Hall in Soweto earlier today. He was speaking in reference to the assault that took place on the N1 over the weekend, where motorists who…
FAST AND FURIOUS: Mashatile Protectors Under Investigation For Highway Assault Incident
The National Commissioner of Police, General Fannie Masemola, is investigating a roadside assault incident involving Deputy President Paul Mashatile’s VIP protection team. In cellphone footage wildly shared on social media, armed security personnel are seen assaulting occupants of a popular hatchback brand on the N1 freeway in Johannesburg. In the video, the heavily-armed protectors can be seen jumping out of their blue light vehicle, dragging the two occupants out of their car, and kicking and stomping them in their faces. One…
Concern over stalling GBVF Fund as another woman loses her life
The murder of a 26-year-old woman in Limpopo has once again raised concerns about South Africa’s ever-growing gender-based violence and femicide statistics. This week, the residents of Makhushane Village near Phalaborwa woke up to the news that their neighbour Judith Mathebula, 26, had been stabbed to death. According to local police spokesperson, Colonel Malesela Ledwaba, they are pleading with Mathebula’s ex-boyfriend Watch Ndlovu from Gravelotte to avail himself to the nearest police station. “Police received a complaint about a woman…