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Nine-year-old girl missing in Kroonstad

FREE STATE – Boipelo Mesi (9), residing at 194 Gelukwaarts, Maokeng was reported missing by her mother Lynette Sesele. She was last seen whilst playing with friends in the street not far from her home on 01 September 2020 at about 13:00. The mother alleges she went to visit a

Men nabbed with four firearms due in court

DURBAN – In the early hours of today, a multi-disciplinary operation was conducted at Pomeroy where four unlicensed firearms were recovered. The team went to Obanjeni area at two homesteads where a search was conducted. Upon searching at the first premise, a 35-year-old man was found in possession two unlicensed

Update: Search launched for missing person in Danielskuil

NORTHERN CAPE – The body of Patrick Hulley was discovered in a room at a guesthouse in Danielskuil on 02 September 2020 at about 10am. The circumstances surrounding his death is unknown, pending the autopsy results. The investigation continues. Source: South African Police Service

Western Cape duo sentenced for over R5.6 million worth of illegal abalone

WESTERN CAPE – Mathew Phiri (45) and Patrick Kanyembo (34) appeared at Paarl Regional Court on Monday, 31 August 2020 for sentencing. This follows their arrest on 23 June 2020 in a joint search and seizure operation on the N1 near the Huguenot Tunnel undertaken by members of the Hawks’

Family found murdered in Bloemfontein

FREE STATE – On Tuesday, 01 September 2020 at about 9:15, the police were alerted to a residence in Raymond Mhlaba Street in Bloemfontein where, upon arrival, three bodies were found in the house. The deceased, a 68-year-old father, a 65-year-old mother and a 40-year-old son were found in the

Convict sentenced to 14 years imprisonment for possession of explosives

KWAZULU-NATAL – On Friday, 28 August 2020 Port Shepstone Regional Court convicted and sentenced Xolani Mteshana (47) to 14 years imprisonment for possession of explosives, detonators, live rounds of ammunition and drugs. On 17 February 2019, Hawks members from Port Shepstone Serious Organised Crime unit received information about a suspect

Bogus medical doctor nabbed for fraud

DURBAN – In the early hours of the morning, the Trio Crime Task Team, Gluckstadt SAPS, Vryheid K9 Unit together with Vryheid Crime Intelligence Unit arrested a wanted bogus medical doctor for fraud. Police received a complaint about a doctor who was practising at a local hospital in Mahlabathini who

Security guard implicated in a cash-in transit heist appears in court

WESTERN CAPE – OOnke Jilingisi (29), a security guard attached to the local store at Fisher Avenue in Epping appeared in the Goodwood Magistrate’s Court today on a cash in transit heist charge. Jilingisi was arrested by Hawks’ National Priority Violent Crimes team following a cash-in-transit robbery on Friday 28

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