Author: Malebogo Putu
Two men, aged 30 and 36, were arrested on charges of drug possession and contravention of immigration laws following a police roadblock in the Maokeng township near Kroonstad, in Free State. The operation took place on Friday, 12 December 2025 when members of the South African Police Service, in collaboration with traffic officials, the Community Police Forum and the youth desk, set up a roadblock in the Marabastad section of Maokeng. A taxi was stopped for routine checks, during which officers discovered an undocumented individual carrying a box containing packets of noodles concealing a black plastic bag with substances suspected…
Nearly 12,000 unlicensed venues shuttered in six months, yet mass shootings and deadly incidents claim dozens of lives South African authorities have shuttered 11,975 illegal liquor outlets nationwide between April and September this year, arresting more than 18,676 individuals for unlicensed alcohol sales, in a sweeping effort to curb crime hotspots. Yet the campaign has done little to stem a surge in deadly violence at both licensed and unlicensed drinking establishments, with the latest tragedy unfolding Saturday in an illegal Pretoria shebeen where gunmen killed 11 people, including three children, and wounded 14 others. The shutdowns, part of intensified police…
Fourteen others wounded as gunmen open fire in Saulsville hostel; manhunt underway for three suspects A mass shooting at an unlicensed liquor outlet in Saulsville, Atteridgeville, west of Pretoria, claimed the lives of eleven people, including three children aged 3, 12, and 16 and left fourteen others wounded in the early hours of Saturday morning, authorities said. According to National Police spokesperson Brigadier Athlenda Mathe, twenty-five people were shot in the attack, which occurred around 4:15 a.m. “Ten died on this particular scene, and one died in hospital. We’ve got 14 victims in hospital,” Mathe told reporters. She confirmed that…
The South African Police Service’s Provincial Organised Crime Unit in the North West has arrested five suspects in connection with an alleged jobs for sale scheme at the City of Matlosana Local Municipality in Klerksdorp. The arrests follow a complaint lodged with the municipality on Tuesday, 02 December 2025, by individuals who reported that they had been made to sign employment contracts on 17 November on condition that they each pay R10 000. Despite making the payments, no employment followed. Police said a preliminary investigation identified two municipal officials along with two additional suspects. The municipal officials were traced and…
Two Zimbabwean nationals have been remanded in custody after appearing before the Mkhondo Magistrate’s Court on charges of dealing in dagga and contravening immigration laws. According to police, the duo were arrested on 04 December 2025 at about 20:35 on the N2 near Mahamba in Mpumalanga during routine crime-prevention patrols. Officers stopped a truck with two men on board and conducted a search, during which they discovered six big bags of compressed dagga at the back of the truck. The suspects, identified as Tinashe Chitsamba, 40, and Oscar Mutsetemari, 45, allegedly told police that they had travelled from Empangeni and…
Police in Free State have arrested six suspects shortly after a violent house robbery at a farm near Warden on Friday, 05 December 2025. According to Police, the incident began at approximately 08:30 when a 74-year-old farm resident was confronted by a group of unknown males while travelling along a dirt road on his property after refilling a tractor with diesel. The victim reported seeing his own white Toyota Hilux bakkie, fitted with a white canopy, being driven away from the direction of his farmhouse. SAPS stated that “five suspects approached the complainant, opened his vehicle door, and forcibly took…
Police in Limpopo province have arrested a 31-year-old woman suspected of murdering and dismembering her 42-year-old boyfriend and burying his remains in a shallow grave behind his home in Morutji Village, Bolobedu South. The mutilated body of Isaiah Thomas Maphalle was discovered on Thursday wrapped in a maize-meal sack after local residents raised the alarm and alerted authorities. Officers responding to the scene unearthed the shallow grave at the rear of the victim’s residence in the rural community near Tzaneen. Following a rapid investigation, police took Mr Maphalle’s girlfriend into custody the same day. Provincial police spokespersons confirmed the arrest…
President Donald J. Trump announced late Wednesday, 26 November 2025, that South Africa will not receive an invitation to the 2026 G20 summit, which the United States will host in Miami, Florida, and that Washington is immediately terminating all payments and subsidies to Pretoria. “The United States did not attend the G20 in South Africa, because the South African Government refuses to acknowledge or address the horrific Human Right Abuses endured by Afrikaners, and other descendants of Dutch, French, and German settlers. To put it more bluntly, they are killing white people, and randomly allowing their farms to be taken…
A matric learner from Schaumburg Combined School in Hartbeespoort has died from injuries sustained during a violent incident at the school last Thursday, the Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) confirmed on Monday. According to GDE Spokesperson Steve Mabona, the girl succumbed to her injuries on Sunday, 23 November 2025, after being struck by a scholar bus amid escalating unrest on the school premises. The department said it had received a report that “chaos broke out at Schaumburg Combined School when four boys allegedly entered the school through a fence at the back of the premises.” The intruders reportedly started a…
A regional court in Hanover, Northern Cape, has sentenced William Matheuws, 27, to life imprisonment plus an additional ten years for the rape of one five-year-old girl and the attempted rape of another, the National Prosecutions Authority said Monday. The attacks occurred on 12 August 2023. According to the NPA statement, Matheuws was with both victims when a neighborhood child alerted an elderly community member. Upon arrival, the elderly person who later became the complainant in the case, found the children, who described what had happened. The child who was raped was too traumatized to testify in court. The State…