KING WILLIAM’S TOWN – Eastern Cape Provincial Commissioner Lieutenant General Liziwe Ntshinga condemned gender based violence after the murder of a 38-year-old woman whose body was found strangled with multiple stabbing wounds at Mdeni location, Butterworth on Sunday, 20 June 2020. The gruesome discovery was made by her boyfriend who

DURBAN – Investigating officers from the Provincial Investigation Unit worked throughout the night to solve a murder case that had baffled many in the quiet suburb of Overport. Their resilience yielded positive results when two suspects aged 32 and 36 were arrested. Police proceeded to Inanda where a 36-year-old man

UITENHAGE – The investigative work conducted by the Uitenhage Cluster Commercial Crimes task team and Forensic investigators yielded positive results when a bank teller in Uitenhage was arrested for fraud and theft. On Monday, 22 June 2020 at about 07:30, the 35-year-old woman was arrested at her house in Rosedale

GAUTENG – Police, in conjunction with Johannesburg K9 Unit, arrested five suspects between the ages of 30 and 66 for possession of a suspected stolen motor vehicle, possession of two unlicensed firearms and ammunition at Fordsburg on 22 June 2020 at 10:00. One of the arrested suspects is a former

NORTHERN CAPE – On Saturday, 20 June 2020 at about 21:00 the Kimberley SAPS Visible Policing unit arrested a 25-year-old male suspect hours after a robbery took place in Green Street, Kimberley, earlier that morning. Two males allegedly robbed a female of her handbag and fled the scene. Police followed

NELSPRUIT – The Provincial Commissioner of South African Police in Mpumalanga, Lieutenant General Mondli Zuma has called on community members to be more vigilant with their children. The General’s plea emanates from recent incidents involving children which occured at Mmametlake and Emzinoni respectively. On the Mmametlake incident, which occured on

KIMBERLEY – The Provincial Commissioner of the South African Police Service in the Northern Cape, Lieutenant General Risimati Peter Shivuri has strongly condemned the fatal shooting of a 28-year-old woman by a police Sergeant aged 37. It is alleged this morning at about 01:00, the police Sergeant had an argument

BLOEMFONTEIN – A man was arrested for rape after he reportedly lured a woman using Facebook to a meeting in Odendaalsrus on Saturday, 20 June 2020 where she was alleged to have been raped. It is alleged that a 25-year-old woman from Welkom went to Odendaalsrus to meet a male

BLOEMFONTEIN – Residents in Bohlokong Bethlehem closed De Viliers Street in Bohlokong with burning tyres after they caught a 27-year-old alleged murder suspect and assaulted him. Nhlapo has been admitted in a local hospital with serious injuries. Bohlokong SAPS and Bethlehem Public Order Policing (POP) Unit members are at the

PARKTOWN – A 22-year-old woman is expected to appear before the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on Monday, 22 June 2020, following her arrest on 18 June 2020. The suspect was arrested for the alleged murder of a 36-year-old man in Tshwane. After not being able to reach the deceased on his

NAIROBI – Many amateur astronomers in Africa and Asia had the chance to observe Sunday, for the summer solstice, a rare solar eclipse of the “ring of fire” type, despite the restrictions imposed by the coronavirus and sometimes unfavorable climatic conditions. This astronomical phenomenon, which occurs once or twice a

NELSPRUIT – Mpumalanga police have launched a manhunt for suspects who shot and killed 57-year-old Amos Mgwenya who was a security guard at Mthayiza Primary School in Kabokweni. Mgwenya was shot during an armed robbery incident which occurred yesterday Friday, 19 June 2020. The incident was uncovered when three women