Human Rights

NELSPRUIT – All communities serviced by Leslie Police Station, are advised that this police station will be temporarily closed due to COVID-19 reported cases. The Community Service Centre will be operating from Leandra Town Hall, Corner of Drieplaas fakude and Davora Streets next to the park. To access the station, the community should call Secunda […]

PORT ELIZABETH – In a joint operation between the Anti-Gang Unit and PE K9 Unit members, 24-year-old gang member was arrested for an alleged attempted murder incident which took place in April 2020 in Arcadia in Bethelsdorp. It is alleged that on 21 April 2020 at about 09:15, the complainant (19) was walking down Hoffman […]

POTCHEFSTROOM – The North West Provincial Commissioner, Lieutenant General Sello Kwena, welcomed two life sentences handed down by the Klerksdorp Regional Court to a 28-year-old uncle, who raped his two nieces. The sentences emanate from an incident reported on Tuesday, 01 January 2019, in Kanana outside Klerksdorp, where the uncle sent the victims, aged 9 […]

Members of the Tactical Response Team (TRT), Crime Intelligence Unit assisted by members of the South African National Defense Force last night, Saturday 06 June 2020 at about 22h00, succeeded in foiling yet another planned armed robbery, including a farm attack in the Marblehall and Denilton policing areas, by arresting two suspects and fatally wounding […]

JOHANNESBURG – Officials in Africa have expressed concern over developments in the U.S. following the death of George Floyd, the black American man killed in police custody in the city of Minneapolis last week. The head of the African Union described Floyd’s death as an act of “murder,” while South Africa’s ruling party is calling […]

A 57-year-old suspect is expected to appear in the Mogwase Magistrates’ Court on today following his arrest on 30 May 2020, in connection with illegal mining in the Rustenburg area. Members of the Hawks’ Serious Organised Crime Investigation assisted by members of Rustenburg Flying Squad, Department of Mineral Resources and the South Africa National Defence […]

DURBAN: When a ten-year-old girl from Efefe was sent to a tuckshop by her mother she didn’t know it was her last day with her loved ones. It is alleged on 28 January 2020, Lindiwe Ndwandwe was sent to a tuckshop by her mother when she bumped into her stepfather who dragged her to an […]