LIMPOPO- The Polokwane High Court has on Monday sentenced Thomas Nunu Makanye (33), and Simon Setwanye Monakedi (37), to life imprisonment for killing a police officer in January 2016. The late Warrant Officer, Joel Seloga (57), who was attached to Groblersdal Cluster detectives was shot…
The Acting National Head of the Directorate For Priority Crime Investigation (HAWKS) Lieutenant General Yolisa Matakata has learnt with disappointment the arrest of the units’ Serious Anti-Corruption commander in Mpumalanga. Captain Richard Nkwanyana (48) handed himself over the Hawks’ Middelburg Organised Unit members on Monday…
This week Special Assignment broadcasts a follow-up to our ongoing investigations into alleged corruption and elite capture of state-owned farms that are turning the fruits of agrarian land reform into a bitter harvest. When one thinks of elite capture, the Gupta family immediately springs to…
The Clanwilliam Regional Court has convicted Jonas White (47), a former, Executive Mayor of Cederberg Municipality, for corruption. The Hawks’ Serious Commercial Crime Unit arrested White and his alleged girlfriend, Ezelle Bianca Mankay (33), as well as, Philippus Volschenk (56), following investigations on 19th December,…
"South Africa has been engulfed by an insurgence of extremely violent crime that has made our people and visitors feel and be unsafe. The levels of violence we have seen in recent months involves the use of weapons of war in the commissions of serious…
The Department of Health has put one of its Forensic analysts, based in Pretoria Forensic Laboratory Services on precautionary suspension from employment in terms of clause 7.2 of the PSCBC resolution 1 of 2003 with full pay. However, the matter is handed over to the…
Kimberley - The Hawks are looking for any information that could lead to the arrest of the following suspect wanted for cash heist in Kuruman, Northern Cape. On Thursday, 8 December 2016, at about 06:00 in the morning, the person depicted in the photo attached…
After steadily declining for over a decade, global hunger is on the rise again, affecting 815 million people in 2016, or 11 per cent of the global population, says a new edition of the annual United Nations report on world food security and nutrition released…
MINISTRY OF POLICE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA UPDATE ON THE MATTER OF AN ALLEGED ASSAULT IN SANDTON The Ministry of Police wishes to make the following update on the matter as reported: 1. The suspect in the matter made arrangements acceptable to SAPS that she would present herself to SAPS Police…
The Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (HAWKS) arrested a Major General on corruption charges on Sunday, 13 August 2017. Following a lengthy joint investigation between the Hawks and Crime Intelligence into alleged corrupt activities, Major General Thuto Gaokgakwe Phefo (55) the Provincial Head of Legal…