The South African Police Service (SAPS) members who have been deployed to KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces as part of Operation Rhino, have arrested a total of eight suspects in the past seven days for possession of firearms, hijackings, conspiracy to poach and possession of…
Pretoria - 6 May 2016: Ongoing efforts led by the South African Police Service (SAPS) aimed at reducing incidents of rhino poaching in the country’s national parks are yielding massive positive results. Through Operation Rhino, a SAPS-led operation in conjunction with the South African National…
Pretoria – The Hawks in Mpumalanga have arrested two women and a man for a conspiracy to poach rhinos at the Kruger National Park on Thursday. A tip-off was received from an anonymous source about a group of people who were plotting to poach rhinos…
Pretoria - Four suspects have been arrested for kidnapping and a car hijacking which happened over the weekend in Mpumalanga. A man was allegedly driving his Mini Cooper when two vehicles, one with flashing blue lights, ordered him to stop. Immediately when he pulled over…
Pretoria: 2 September 2015 – Two suspected rhino poachers have been sentenced to a total of 11 years imprisonment for their crimes. Phinias Sithole (23) and France Nkuna (22), who are Mozambican nationals, were convicted and sentenced at the White River Magistrate Court on Monday,…
Preetoria: 12 June 2015 - The South African Police Service's National Intervention Unit and Mpumalanga Tracking Team pounced on three suspected rhino poachers in the early hours of this morning, 12 June 2015, in Acornhoek, Mpumalanga. A 30 year old South African male and a…
Two more suspects arrested for rhino poaching related crimes will appear in court after members of the South African Police Service (SAPS) and South African National Parks (SANParks) rangers arrested them in two separate incidents in Mpumalanga. Carlos Mathebula (34) will appear at the Skukuza…
Pretoria: Today, the Acting National Head of the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation, Major General Yoliswa Siyotula, applauded the Organised Crime Unit of the Hawks in Mpumalanga for securing two convictions against two rhino poachers. Yesterday, the White River Periodical Court handed down an eight-year…