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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Community and police joined hands against the brutal murder and rape of a 15 year old girl in Motherwell.
This follows after the body of 15 year old Ntombikayise Socenywa was found on Saturday, 10 February 2018 at 13:00. Her naked body was found wrapped in plastic in a drain in an open field in NU5, Motherwell. A post mortem revealed that she was raped and strangled.
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A 73-year-old man died and his wife was extremely traumatised after the couple was attacked on their farm in Charl Cilliers in Mpumalanga on Friday night. Brigadier Leonard Hlathi, Police Spokesperson, confirmed the incident. He identified the couple as Johannes Cornelius (73) and Ilse Jakoba Meyer (69). According to Hlathi the incident took place at approximately 22:30. He..
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“The community of Rustenburg is shocked by the suspected brutal murder of a defenceless, frail old man this weekend,” captain Elsabé Augoustides, a police spokesperson said in an interview with the Platinum Weekly newspaper.
Wilhelm Gustav Napoleon Wagner (88), known to his closest as ‘Oom Willie’, was allegedly brutally murdered in his own home in Maroela avenue, Protea Park in Rustenburg. He was living alone after his wife passed away sever and a half years ago.
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Douglas Notten and his wife Julia were about to stop and share some coffee when a man approached from behind on the hiking trail above Kalk Bay.
They stepped aside politely. Seconds later the 57-year-old pilot had been stabbed. Julia was fighting for her life.
The attack at Echo Valley by a knife-wielding man in the Table Mountain National Park on Sunday ended tragically – robbing a family of a man they described as an absolute gentleman.
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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 family member has confirmed that a badly burnt body found in a secluded cane field near New Hanover in KwaZulu-Natal is that of Siam Lee. Her body had been found by a farmer travelling on a district road on Saturday. It is understood that Lee was positively identified by a relative on Thursday‚ according..
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An official of the Gauteng department of health has been convicted of conspiring to commit murder, Health MEC Gwen Ramokgopa said. Briefing the media in Midrand, Ramokgopa said Zandi Qwabe, a clerk at the Bheki Mlangeni Regional Hospital in Soweto, had organised hitmen to have the CEO and the labour relations manager of the hospital..
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A South African man has been stoned to death by a mob after they allegedly caught him raping a six-year-old girl. The unnamed man was killed with rocks on an estate in the north of Durban, the country’s third-biggest city. Police have started investigations into both the stoning and the rape allegations. Lieutenant Colonel Zwane..
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A 20 year old suspect is scheduled to appear in the Albertinia Magistrates’ Court this morning after he had been charged with the murder of the 52 years old Sharon Bester whose body was found by one of her employees on Saturday, 28 October 2017 at about 20:30 when he went to feed the dogs…
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South Africa’s crime stats for the 2016/2017 were released on Tuesday. According to the stats, “approximately 2.1 million serious crime counts were recorded, of which 1 738 980 were community-reported serious crimes.” In this time period, 19 016 murder cases were reported, the highest in 10 years. Carjacking also continues to increase massively, as does..
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The Gauteng Provincial Commissioner Lieutenant General De Lange has expressed her shock about the ruthless murder of two elderly women (mother and daughter) aged 70 and 91, at a house in Webber Road, Lambton on 12 July 2017. The bodies were discovered at about 14:00 by another daughter of the victim. It is suspected that..
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A father lay helpless with bullet wounds as his 12-year-old daughter was shot dead in their family home in Bethelsdorp in Port Elizabeth last week. Bethelsdorp police said an intruder forced his way into the home after the father refused him entry. “The family was asleep when they heard loud knocking on their front door…
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The police in the Eastern Free State arrested three suspects on Sunday, April 23, in connection with the murders of Pieter van der Berg (49) and his domestic, Tsietso Matsabisa (55). In another merciless farm attack, a farmer of the Wepener district in the Free State and his domestic worker were shot dead on Thursday,..
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[WARNING: Some of the photos in this articles is graphic and not suitable for sensitive readers or children] “THE ILLEGAL communist regime of Jacob Zuma may radiate, yet in his absence to a response of the 11 farm murders in the first two weeks of February, it is seen as a silent approval for our..
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