The chairperson of the portfolio committee on police has called for CCTV cameras to be installed in police stations across the country following the killing of five police officers and a soldier this morning.
Francois Beukman said the installation of the cameras would be an urgent implementation of police station safety which was in line with strong recommendations made by his team.
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The SAPS Northern Cape Trio Crime Unit are investigating a farm attack that allegedly took place during the evening of Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at a farm near Windsorton.
The 82 year old farmer and his wife were allegedly asleep when the suspects entered the house, assaulted them and tied them up.
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An elderly couple was attacked in their home on the farm in the Reitz area in the Free State on Sunday morning 11 February 2018.
Marius Müller, National Operations Co-ordinator of AfriForum, told Maroela Media on Sunday that a preliminary investigation indicates that three armed robbers attacked the couple at about 05:00.
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A 65-year-old man from Bronkhorstspruit, east of Pretoria, was stabbed in his house on Wednesday in from of his entire family Provincial police spokesperson, Capt. Mavela Masondo told the media on Wednesday that the incident occurred at Puntlyf at 03:30. “Seven armed suspects broke the sliding door and entered the house; Everything in the house..
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A massive police hunt has been launched after a well-known businessman and diamond dealer, Piet Els, was brutally attacked on his farm outside Kimberley last night. Els and his partner, Magrietha (Rikkie) Alsemgeest (67), the owner of Kimberley Clothing, are currently being treated in the emergency department of Gariep Mediclinic where they are expected to..
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Last weekend a family were attacked and robbed in their home in Pretoria, South Africa. Their niece was beaten with a crowbar, her husband stabbed and shot in the head. Their two young daughters were tied up and witnessed this gruesome event. Their niece’s husband survived. The bullet came out above his eye. They are..
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A Gauteng man is in a critical condition after a hijacking occurred on a smallholding in the west of Pretoria on Monday. It is believed that the man was severely assaulted with an iron rod. Ian Cameron, Head of Community Safety at AfriForum, said the incident happened on a smallholding in the Zandfontein area at..
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A team of seasoned investigators spent several hours at a scene of house robbery that took place at a smallholding in Grahamstown on the afternoon of 3 January 2018, where two suspects were arrested on scene. A little after 17:00 local security officers responded to a panic alarm and called on the SAPS for backup…
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An 89-year-old Sedgefield woman is in good spirits and well on her way to recovery only days after she was violently attacked and robbed at her home last week. A sprightly Janet Rendell, who lives in the Groenvlei area with her husband Tony, this week relayed the scene that played itself out on 5 December,..
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A woman was stabbed and wounded in a house robbery in Moreleta Park, east of Pretoria, in the early hours of Monday. ER24 paramedics called to scene and found her and her 15-year-old daughter being consoled by Bull Security members, said ER24 spokesperson Russel Meiring. “Paramedics found she had sustained numerous lacerations and stab wounds..
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The Police in Bela-Bela have arrested three suspects who were involved in the farm attack which occurred in the Roodekuil area on 26 November 2017, in the afternoon at about 16:00. It is alleged that eight armed suspects traveling with two cars entered the house, tied up the three victims and robbed them of several..
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When Mzwandile Ntuli woke up naked, bound and bloody in a strange bathroom in Albertville, Johannesburg, all he could do was scream for his life. Ntuli, 27, was kidnapped on Friday afternoon in Hillbrow by four men who bundled into the boot of a white car. He claimed he was sedated and severely assaulted. Ntuli..
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Knysna News: A Narnia Village woman was viciously attacked by a man she called a “yellow-eyed animal”, who tried to bite the rings off her fingers on Sunday morning 19 November. A shaken Ethne Hillhouse this week said her sunny morning turned into a sudden brush with death when the man appeared from nowhere. She..
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An alleged child rapist from Delft was assaulted by an angry mob on Monday after an 11-year-old girl was attacked. Residents say police failed to arrest the 32-year-old man for an entire day after the case was reported and he was subsequently assaulted in the street and a tyre placed around his neck. The girl’s..
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Popular Afrikaans rapper Jack Parow was recently caught in the crossfire between Uber and metered taxi drivers, when he was threatened with a panga to prevent him from taking an Uber. Drivers of metered taxis and Uber vehicles have been at loggerheads for months over business in popular areas. Jack told TshisaLIVE that he was..
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