LIMPOPO - The Provincial Head of the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation Major General Thobeka Jozi has lauded her team for responding swiftly and arrest a suspect who allegedly held captive four Zimbabwean nationals. The four victims aged between 15 and 20 were allegedly kept…
Pretoria, Tuesday 3 January 2017: The Acting National Commissioner of the South African Police Service, Lieutenant General Khomotso Phahlane, has taken note of the judgement handed down in the Durban High Court today. Lieutenant General Betty Mmamonnye Ngobeni had previously filed an execution application to…
WESTERN CAPE - A former Municipal manager Martin Noël Pietersen (60) is due to learn his fate next year, when the George Magistrate's Court decides his future. Pietersen is set to be sentenced on the 30th of March 2017 following sweeping investigations by the Serious…
An experimental Ebola vaccine was highly protective against the deadly virus in a major trial in Guinea, according to results published today in The Lancet. The vaccine is the first to prevent infection from one of the most lethal known pathogens, and the findings add…
Pretoria, Thursday 22 December 2016: The South African Police Service (SAPS) has noted with concern that a hoax (or so-called satirical) media report has been published online which claims, inter alia, that police stations will be closed on 25 and 31 December 2016 - that…
Pretoria, Wednesday 21 December 2016: On Tuesday, 20 December 2016 at about 11:50, two buses arrived at the Embassy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Francis Baard Street, Pretoria, carrying approximately 250 people. An unauthorised protest took place which turned violent when stones…
Pretoria: 15 December 2016 – Today, the South African Police Service (SAPS) simultaneously hosted four passing-out parades for newly trained police officials who had successfully completed the Basic Police Development Learning Programme (BPDLP) at the SAPS Tshwane Academy in Gauteng, the SAPS Philippi Academy in…
Over one million refugees and migrants arrived in Europe by sea in 2015. 2016 has become the deadliest year ever for these travellers, with over 4700 people found dead or missing at sea so far. Sudden and large influxes of refugees and migrants can disrupt…
Arguably one of the five greatest fielders in South African cricket over the past ten years and one of the most underrated middle-order domestic batsmen, SA Engelbrecht, has announced his retirement from first-class cricket. The 28-year old athlete, a graduate in financial management as well…
One third of more than 700 health facilities in Borno State, north-eastern Nigeria, have been completely destroyed, according to a report released today by WHO. Of those facilities remaining, one third are not functioning at all. "High insecurity, difficult terrain and lack of health workers,…