This week Special Assignment has decided to re-broadcast the multiple-award winning documentary Deadly Decisions, which has recently scooped three Diageo Responsible Drinking Awards for Best Broadcast, Best up and coming and Journalist of the Year. The documentary, produced by Cleopatra Jones, looks at the impact…
NORTHERN CAPE – Lindiwe Cynthia Nqumashe (44) was arrested on Friday for alleged bursary fraud worth over R80 000,00. Nqumashe works for the Department of Health, Northern Cape, Kimberley, attached to the student’s bursary funds office dealing with allocation of funds to successful bursary applicants.…
GAUTENG – The Hawks' South African Narcotics Enforcement Bureau (SANEB) executed search and seizure warrants at four residences in the Eastern and Southern In the process, two clandestine drug manufacturing laboratories were dismantled. The Hawks members seized a quantity of illegal drugs believed to be…
HAWKS SEIZE MILITARY EXPLOSIVES LIMPOPO - The Limpopo Hawks' Serious Organised Crime Unit members today arrested a (46) year-old suspect for unlawful possession of alleged military explosives and ammunition in Makhado. The Hawks received intelligence about explosives that were allegedly kept at the suspect's business…
MPUMALANGA - Two suspects were arrested on Thursday by the members of DPCI Secunda Serious Organised Crime Investigation, Secunda CI for alleged dealing in drugs. The Hawks members received information about two suspects and a disruptive operation led the members to 426 clear zip bags…
In an ongoing multidisciplinary, proactive fight against crime in and around ORTIA, members of the Customs Division of the South African Revenue Service (SARS) and the Crime Intelligence Division of the SAPS arrested four suspects after they were found to be in the possession of…
In December 2015, members of the public began to report the shocking health and welfare conditions of the Little Falls Garden Centre monkeys in Muldersdrift, Johannesburg. People were desperate to help the monkeys and contacted the NSPCA. Annemarie Redelinghuys runs a Facebook group for monkey…
GAUTENG – An intelligence-driven sting operation by the Gauteng Hawks National Bureau of Illegal Firearms Control and Priority Violent Crimes (SANEB) has led to the arrest of a 65 year old suspect for possession of unlicensed firearms, ammunition, explosives and gold bearing material. The arrest…
NO RAINBOW NATION YET In recent weeks several video recordings that went viral on social media, have once again exposed a deeply divided country still grappling with racism along clearly-cut social fault lines. The so-called 'KFC assault,' in which a group of five white men…
Police patrols lead to arrest of 5 including a member of the SAPS in connection with poaching Five (5) men, including a police official, were arrested at a game farm in the Limpopo area in two separate incidents by the Rhino 08 Poaching Task Team.…