No masks, no camo, and no sticks: Durban High Court slaps strict interim order on Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma’s March and March movement The Durban High Court has granted an interim order restricting the March and March movement and its leadership from using violence to force businesses to shut their doors, blocking roads through violent conduct, […]

“He is in tremendous pain”: Wife breaks silence after North West farmer Donovan Marx has both ears cut off in brutal farm attack The wife of a 50-year-old North West cattle farmer who was shot, stabbed, and had both of his ears cut off during a horrific farm attack near Ventersdorp has thanked South Africans […]

Acting Police Minister Firoz Cachalia has asked Cabinet to approve KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi as the next national head of the Hawks. Cachalia has submitted a formal memorandum seeking Cabinet’s concurrence for the appointment, the police said. The proposal is not yet final: the memorandum is due to be presented at the earliest […]

The R300 was temporarily brought to a standstill on Thursday morning after a suspected taxi-related shooting, as authorities battled to contain a deadly conflict that has left at least ten people shot in recent days. The latest incident followed a series of attacks involving taxi drivers in Khayelitsha, Philippi East and surrounding areas. Police have […]

  Gauteng police have arrested five suspects aged between 15 and 21 after chilling dashcam footage went viral on social media, showing a 20-year-old e-hailing driver fleeing for his life during an armed ambush in Eldorado Park, Johannesburg, while one of his attackers shouted, “Shoot him, shoot him!” According to Gauteng police spokesperson Colonel Dimakatso […]

A 53-year-old KwaZulu-Natal single father who fought off three armed hijackers outside his Pinetown home—killing one gunman and taking a bullet to the knee to protect his three teenagers—has seen a BackaBuddy campaign in his honour surpass R409,000 after South Africans crowned him the country’s "John Wick". Despite global praise and hundreds of thousands of […]

Police have launched a manhunt after the body of a 33-year-old female teacher was discovered at her home in Mashamothane 2, Mmamatipa, in Limpopo’s Tubatse policing area. The woman’s colleagues became concerned after she failed to report for duty at Batau High School and could not be reached on her cellphone. They went to her […]

  Democratic Alliance caucus leader Michael Thulani Mbana has been shot dead in the Free State, just over a week before South Africa’s local government elections. Mbana served as a councillor in the Metsimaholo Local Municipality and previously held the position of Member of the Mayoral Committee for Spatial Planning and Human Settlements. The DA […]

The defence in the murder trial of rapper Kiernan “AKA” Forbes and his friend Tebello “Tibz” Motsoane has challenged a police witness over his ability to identify people in CCTV footage. Sergeant Rajen Sanders, of the KwaZulu-Natal organised crime unit, was questioned in court about his expertise in facial recognition and analysing people’s physical features. […]

A 13-year-old boy has been expelled with immediate effect after allegedly stabbing two 14-year-old pupils with a knife at Helderberg High School, a private Christian school in Somerset West, leaving both victims in hospital. The early morning knife attack unfolded on school grounds shortly after 07:00 on Friday, just days before pupils were set to […]