Police urgently sent an unknown drug for forensic testing, after 14 young adults and teenagers residing in Pretoria had to be rushed to hospital after they had consumed an unknown herbal mix known as, puff or blazing. It came after the incident where three teenagers from Pretoria West had to be rushed to hospital on..
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Parents warned about new drug following the hospitalisation of 14 Pretoria school children
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Western Cape woes continue:- Cosatu threatens to shut down WC if province fails to deal with gangsterism
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Cosatu in the Western Cape has confirmed that it will file a section 77 notice on Tuesday after being approached by communities across the Cape Flats who are struggling under a barrage of gang violence.
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Police buildings are a safe haven … for criminals
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Police residences should be free from illegal activity. After all, it’s here where our men and women in blue – the law enforcement officers whose primary duty is to the protect people and property – live. But this is not the case in Durban, where police blocks of flats – which accommodate thousands of officers..
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Ncobo killings victim speaks out
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A police officer who survived this week’s attack on the Ngcobo Police Station in the Eastern Cape has described how he had to crawl on the ground to escape a volley of rifle fire that met him when he arrived to help his slain colleagues.
When the officer and a colleague, who were called as back-up from a nearby police station, arrived at 23:00 on Tuesday, the station was a “war zone” as between 15 and 20 armed attackers opened fire on them with automatic rifles.
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Listeriosis outbreak: Hunt for a killer bug
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It’s like trying to find a needle in a haystack.
The medical scientists at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) have been trying to find the source of the listeriosis outbreak, but the haystack seems to grow larger by the day.
With over 900 cases confirmed through laboratory tests, the food-borne disease has so far claimed 172 lives across the country.
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Krugersdrop Cops busted for bribery
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Two SAPS cops were arrested this weekend in Kurgersdorp, Gauteng for taking a R3000 bribe from drug dealers.
The information was shared on the FB page Police pics and clips’s.
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Fuel tankers used for drugs, ivory, arms smuggling operations across Zim and SA
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Modified tanker trucks are at the center of a new wave of drug smuggling into and through South Africa as well as movement of illegal arms and ivory from and out of Zimbabwe, a Khuluma Afrika investigation has established.
This was discovered after a fuel tanker truck was hijacked just after the South Africa – Mozambique border post. The hijackers reportedly took the truck to a secluded farm believed to be their ‘extraction’ point only to find out the vehicle barely had fuel, and the tank had been modified.
Listeria outbreak: Why your back-to-school lunch box staples may be dangerous
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Worried your child could be at risk of contracting the bug as they head back to school? You might have to leave polony off the menu. South Africa’s ongoing spate of listeria cases has claimed more than 60 lives in what the World Health Organisation (WHO) is now calling the world’s biggest outbreak of the..
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What The FLAKKA?! Calls For Urgent Action as Zombie Drug Hits South Africa
HERO TO ZERO: CAPE TOWN COP ARRESTED IN DRUG BUST WAS NOMINATED FOR AWARD
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Clinton Langeveldt was arrested this week after he was found in possession of tens of thousands of mandrax tablets. In what may be a case of hero to zero, it’s emerged the City of Cape Town law enforcement officer arrested in a major mandrax bust was nominated for an outstanding service award last year. On..
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