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Hendrik Hancke is an award-winning senior journalist who escaped the clutches of the Afrikaans media and now writes for Sunday Times and TimesLIVE about safety and security, energy and social issues.
Embattled Postbank says while it will respect a high court ruling throwing out its urgent application seeking to force Sassa to uphold a service agreement it is concerned about the impact this will have on three-million social grant…
The department of international relations and co-operation (Dirco) has called for safe passage for the Global Sumud Flotilla which is carrying activists from several countries, including six South Africans, to deliver much-needed…
Police say all weapons confiscated in a raid in Bellville in the Western Cape, including AK-47 rifles, pistols and ammunition, are accounted for despite a contrary claim by DA MP Ian Cameron
Three suspects aged between 30 and 41 years appeared in the Centane magistrate's court on Friday for allegedly burning and beating a 12-year-old boy to death.
Two family members will join Mpumalanga farmer Pieter Grobler, who is accused of repackaging and selling expired and rotten food for human consumption, in court after they were arrested by the Hawks this week.
The police national anti-kidnapping task team rescued a 30-year-old kidnap victim on Friday and arrested two suspects during an operation in Germiston.
A retired police detective has turned to AfriForum’s private prosecution unit for assistance as he fears the SAPS has not gathered all available evidence in the murder case involving his daughter, who was also a former police detective.
Two soldiers were stabbed to death during the early hours of Saturday at the Macadamia Military Base near Komatipoort in Mpumalanga, allegedly after a confrontation with a colleague.
In yet another success story for the national anti-kidnapping task team, a wanted Mozambican kidnapper was shot dead this week during a tracing operation in Johannesburg.
Five suspects were killed in two separate shoot-outs with police in Inanda in KwaZulu-Natal on Friday.
Three suspected gangsters were arrested in KwaZulu-Natal after they were found in possession of firearms and ammunition.
“Water levels have risen rapidly overnight in the Vaal Dam due to heavy inflows on the upper catchments as a result of the continuous above-normal rainfall on already saturated catchments,” water and sanitation department spokesperson…
Police have asked the public to be on the lookout for three police constables who have been missing since Wednesday.
Police minister Senzo Mchunu has written a letter to Gerrie Nel of AfriForum’s private prosecution unit to apologise to Jaco Pieters, the principal of Bergview College, for implicating him as a possible suspect in the rape of a minor that…
Three suspects were arrested on Saturday for allegedly illegally stripping bark from trees in Cape Town’s protected Newlands forest.