A Valhalla Park family is mourning after a 38-year-old man was struck and killed by a train in Heideveld on Monday morning, becoming the fourth person to die in a separate train-related incident in the Western Cape in just over a month. The victim, identified by his family as Alvin Wallace, was hit at about […]

Police in Ekurhuleni are battling to make sense of a terrifying string of deaths after 12 women were killed in the area in less than two months. Investigators say they have not yet established whether the cases are linked, but the sheer number of women dying in such a short space of time has left […]

A man suspected of murdering his 23-year-old estranged wife in Tembisa has been found dead inside his vehicle in Midrand, Gauteng. The man had been identified as a person of interest in the killing of Boitumelo Gift Mashita. His body was discovered after the South African Police Service’s Tembisa Tracking Team was alerted that his […]

The Randburg Magistrate’s Court has heard that a 16-year-old girl whom suspended Deputy National Police Commissioner Lieutenant General Shadrack Sibiya is accused of sexually grooming allegedly told her father that she had a crush on the senior police officer. The claim emerged during Sibiya’s bail application on Tuesday. He faces five charges, including rape, sexual […]

Malema granted leave to appeal firearm conviction and five-year sentence EFF leader Julius Malema has been granted leave to appeal his conviction and his five-year sentence in his firearm case. The development follows Malema’s petition to the Eastern Cape High Court in Makhanda, where he asked to appeal against the ruling of the KuGompo Regional […]

A South African woman living in Luxembourg with her husband says she was assaulted and treated badly during a confrontation with a stranger at a hotel in Fourways, Johannesburg. Mpho Boadia was visiting South Africa with her twin sons, their cousin and a friend when the incident allegedly happened at the City Lodge Hotel in […]

The Special Investigating Unit has secured the preservation of approximately R42.4 million in cash, properties, pensions and investments allegedly linked to bribes paid to officials at Tembisa Hospital. The latest action forms part of a wider investigation into the alleged looting of more than R2 billion from the Gauteng facility through three coordinated procurement syndicates. […]

Police in Gauteng have launched a manhunt for eight armed men accused of carrying out a deadly shooting at a tavern in the West Rand on Sunday night. Seventeen patrons were killed after the attackers arrived at the venue in Extension 3, Wedela, and opened fire. The mass shooting happened at approximately 9.30pm, according to […]

ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa has issued a stern warning to party leaders who are using the councillor candidate-list crisis to turn the political spotlight on secretary-general Fikile Mbalula or demand his removal. During a tense National Working Committee meeting on Monday, Ramaphosa made it clear that attacks on Mbalula would not be tolerated. The meeting […]

The Boksburg Magistrates’ Court heard that Reagan Cheslin Collis—accused number one in the Reiger Park murder case—allegedly continues to breach correctional services rules and was found with a cellphone while behind bars, for the second time. Collis (23) and his three co-accused—Jamal Meyer (24), Elvino Levert Crafford (27) and Mcfoolen Ford (26)—appeared briefly in court […]