Author: Malebogo Putu
Police in the KwaZulu-Natal have arrested two suspects, aged 23 and 31, on charges of possessing property suspected to be stolen after recovering 21 head of livestock in separate operations, authorities said. In a statement released Tuesday, Lieutenant Colonel Paul Magwaza of the South African Police Service in KwaZulu-Natal said the arrests followed operations conducted in the Hlabeni and Sdangeni areas on Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025, and Monday, Dec. 22, 2025. “On Monday, 22 December 2025, police received information regarding stolen sheep at Sdangeni area,” Lt. Col. Magwaza said. “Members responded swiftly and recovered nine (9) sheep. A 23-year-old suspect…
As festive season celebrations get underway, the Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities (DWYPD) has called on young people to avoid alcohol and substance abuse.The department warns that while this period is often one of “celebration, rest and social connection,” it also gives rise to troubling and dangerous behaviours that can turn joy into tragedy. “[It] is also a period that consistently records increased levels of alcohol and substance abuse, which contribute to road accidents, crime, family conflict, unsafe sexual behaviour, and heightened incidents of gender-based violence and femicide.“These outcomes stand in direct contradiction to the government’s commitment to…
The Gauteng Provincial Government has commended the South African Police Service for tracking and arresting a suspect wanted in connection with a deadly shooting in Saulsville, Pretoria. “The Gauteng Provincial Government commends the South African Police Service for its coordinated and relentless enforcement effort which led to the identification, tracking, and arrest of a suspect in connection with the horrific shooting at the Saulsville Hostel in Atteridgeville. The nationwide hunt for the suspects culminated in the arrest of a 32- year-old man in Limpopo,” said the provincial government said on Tuesday.On 6 December 2024, three suspects shot and killed 12 people…
Minister in the Presidency, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, has issued an appeal for an immediate end to hostilities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) – urging conflicting parties to honour their pledges for peace. The Minister was delivering remarks at the Ad Hoc Summit of the Regional Oversight Mechanism of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the DRC and region. “South Africa appeals to the conflicting parties in the DRC to demonstrate political will and selfless leadership that this occasion requires. The parties must fulfil their previous commitments to establish a permanent, effective and verifiable ceasefire; they must engage in…
Police in Brandfort, Free State, have arrested a 25 year old woman on charges of attempted murder after her two day old child was discovered abandoned near a hiking spot. According to Police, the Brandfort Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences unit traced and arrested the mother in Brandfort following the rescue of the newborn boy on Friday, 12 December 2025, near the hiking spot on the R30 road outside Theunissen. A man and his cousin, who were walking to the hiking spot, were informed by an unknown man about a baby underneath a tree in the vicinity. The…
Police in KwaZulu-Natal dismantled a drug syndicate on Friday, 12 December 2025 arresting Two Foreign Nationals, one from a West African country and another from a central African country, along with a local South African woman believed to be a girlfriend of the West African Foreign National, for possession and dealing in drugs. Authorities seized narcotics valued at an estimated R1.6 million. According to Police, the operation targeted suspects accused of supplying drugs to youth in Umzinto and surrounding areas. Officers intercepted the main suspect, the West African national, while he was driving. Crystal meth was found concealed under the…
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…