MOPANI DISTRICT – SAPS members led by the District Commissioner, Major General Maggie Mathebula have on Thursday, 28 January 2021 conducted a COVID-19 compliance monitoring operation in the Giyani policing area. Members patrolled several areas including Giyani CBD, Taxi Rank and Giyani Section F, and Dzumeri aiming to monitor compliance
DURBAN – It is alleged that yesterday, 27 January 2021, at 10:00, five unknown men entered a business premises on Stamford Hill Road and held the employees at gunpoint. The suspects took various brands of new cellphones, clothes and colognes before fleeing the scene in their getaway vehicle. The police
DURBAN – Mountain Rise Police are appealing to the community to help in identifying the body of an unknown man believed to be in his early twenties. The deceased was found on Monday, 11 January 2021 lying on the road in Raisethorpe in Pietermaritzburg. It is suspected that the victim
BLOEMSPRUIT – A 37-year- old rapist was sentenced by Bloemfontein Regional Court for raping two young boys It was on 24 October 2017 when the accused saw the two boys playing near their homes in Bloemspruit Phase 10 when he lured the two boys aged 7 and 4 to the
JOHANNESBURG – African officials say they are working to acquire hundreds of millions of vaccine doses for the continent over the next year and are urging African solidarity in the battle against coronavirus. Africa has seen 3.4 million confirmed cases since the virus arrived last February. Since then, Dr. John
WASHINGTON – In 1614, six years before the Mayflower crossing, English explorer John Smith led two ships to survey the New England coast. As he described in his “Historie of New England,” Smith left shipmaster Thomas Hunt behind to fish and trade with the Natives. But Hunt saw an opportunity
WASHINGTON – Top U.S. diplomat Antony Blinken has signaled that U.S. sanctions on Iran will remain in place for some time as Washington waits to see if Tehran verifiably stops violating a 2015 nuclear deal with world powers before potentially rejoining the deal that the prior U.S. administration quit. Speaking
DURBAN – A 64-year-old alleged drug dealer is set to appear before the Verulam Magistrate’s Court today for dealing in drugs. The suspect was arrested by the Provincial Drug and Firearm Unit yesterday afternoon at his place of residence in Newlands West. In the fight against the dealing and use
DURBAN – Gluckstadt SAPS is appealing to the members of the community for assistance in locating a missing person named Victor Muntukabongwa Nyandeni (52) from Kwagwebu area, Gluckstadt. Victor was last seen on 31 December 2020 at 19:00 leaving his homestead to visit his girlfriend who lives just across the
KWAZULU-NATAL – A 39-year-old suspect is expected to appear in the Amanzimtoti Magistrate’s Court on Thursday following his arrest for an armed robbery which happened at the Amanzimtoti post office yesterday. It is alleged that on Tuesday, 26 January 2021 armed suspects entered the Amanzimtoti post office and reportedly used
KIMBERLEY – On 26 January 2021, the Pixley Ka Seme District Communication Official, Sergeant Luvuyo Poni, Pixley Ka Seme District Health Inspector, Miss Ndodana and members of De Aar SAPS embarked on compliance inspections at the Tuckshops in Nonzwakazi and De Aar town respectively. One Tuckshop was closed for not
PARKTOWN – All communities serviced by Elsburg SAPS Police Station are hereby advised that the police station is temporarily closed for COVID-19 decontamination. The Community Service Centre will be operating from Elsburg SAPS at the back office parking space (follow the direction sign). Members of the community are advised to
