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Crime
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Five-Year-Old Tells Hijacker He’s “Naughty”
29 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
For most people, when a gun is pointed at them, and the car they are in has been hijacked, will quietly, whimpering softly, kak themselves. Not five-year-old Angie Lombard of Pretoria. This tiny bad-ass simply gave the criminal a good telling off.
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Josef Fritzl, Austrian Incest Rapist, Divorces Wife For Failing To Visit Him In Prison
26 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
You may remember the story of Josef Frizl, the crazy Austrian who locked up his daughter in the basement. He was eventually caught out by the police, and will be spending the rest of his natural life in jail. He now wants a divorce from his marriage of 52 years, claiming his wife has failed to visit him.
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FBI Arrest NYPD Cop Plotting To “Kidnap, Cook, And Eat Women”
26 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Land of the free, home of the complete nut-cases. A 28-year-old New York City police officer was arrested this week by the FBI and charged with “conspiracy to kidnap, cook, and eat” nearly one hundred women including his girlfriend.
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NATO Warship Blasts Pirate Boat Off Somali Coast [PICS]
25 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Yesterday, the the crew of Dutch warship HNMLS Rotterdam spotted a suspected pirate boat close to the Somali shoreline. As they approached the boat, the pirates pulled out AK-47’s and opened fire.
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SAPS Blames Lonmin For Marikana Deaths
23 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Fingers were pointed in every direction at the Farlam Commission of Inquiry into the Marikana shooting on Monday. With transport for the victims now seemingly sorted out to an extent, proceedings got underway in Rustenburg with opening statements by the representatives of the various groups.
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Powerful Images Show Aftermath Of Massive Car Bomb In Beirut [GALLERY]
22 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A massive car bomb went off late Friday afternoon in Beirut – the first of its kind in four years. Rubble and the twisted, burning wreckage of several cars filled the central Beirut street where the bomb exploded. The blast literally ripped the facades and balconies off buildings. Eight people were killed, and a further 78 injured.
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McIntosh Polela Now Sorry For Jub Jub Vaseline Tweet
18 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Did you catch the article we penned about The Hawks’ spokesperson, McIntosh Polela, saying he hoped Jub Jub’s friends had given him Vaseline for prison yesterday? Well, Polela, who was initially unapologetic, has changed his mind about that.
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Hawks Spokesperson McIntosh Polela Hopes Jub Jub Has Vaseline For Prison
17 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Look, there isn’t much that needs to be said here. The crux of the matter is that the spokesperson for The Hawks, McIntosh Polela, hopes that Jub Jub has Vaseline for his time in prison.
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Dr. Shock Claims Alleged Sexual Assault Was A Medical Technique He Learnt In South Africa
17 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Aubrey Levin is on trial in Canada for sexually assaulting 10 patients between 1999 and 2010. He is claiming the prolonged fondling of his patients’ genitals was a technique he learned in South Africa to treat erectile dysfunction
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BREAKING: Jub Jub Found Guilty Of Murder
16 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A short while ago, Eyewitness News’ Mandy Wiener delivered the news that Molemo ‘Jub Jub’ Maarohanye and Themba Tshabalala were both convicted on four counts of murder and two of attempted murder.
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IFP Member Shot Dead In Front Of KZN Court
16 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Showing the signs of the political tension between the Inkatha Freedom Party and the National Freedom Party, violence erupted outside a KZN courtroom yesterday. This resulted in the shooting of an IFP member, Siya Dlamini, who was killed as a result.
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A Croatian Blonde, Danish Spy And YouTube Cleric: How The CIA Got Al-Awlaki
16 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Morten Storm is a Dane who claims to have been used by the Danish intelligence agency (PET) and the CIA to infiltrate al-Qaeda and by finding well known YouTube cleric Anwar al-Awlaki a wife, help the agencies eliminate him.
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Images Released Of Arrested South African Drug Smuggler In Indonesia [PICS]
15 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Last week, it was reported that another South African had been arrested abroad for trying to smuggle drugs into another country. Kathlyn Dunn (28) was arrested last week at Lombok International Airport after arriving on a flight from Singapore. Her goal was to carry 2,6kg of methamphetamine, with a street value of R4,4m into the Indonesian resort island of Lombok.
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Report: Why You Don’t Want To End Up In A South African Jail
15 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
Prisons should not be fun, but they should be nothing like what we have. A slap in the face to basic human rights, a cesspool of disease, abuse and mismanagement. Reading a government report on our prisons, the notion of rehabilitation becomes the biggest joke since a chicken stepped off a curb.
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Striking Mine Workers Kill Colleagues, Assault Security Guards [VIDEO]
12 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Yesterday, about 400 miners at the Nkaneng informal settlement in Photsaneng near Rustenburg resulted to violence in order to voice their frustrations. In the process, a man was burned to death, and another was shot dead. Several security guards were also assualted by strikers.
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Bing Maps Show The CIA’s Secret Bin Laden Training Facility
11 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Just yesterday we reported on the fact that Apple Maps had exposed a Taiwanese military facility, now, using information contained in a Navy SEAL’s book, someone found a satellite image on Bing depicting what is surely the training facility used for the assault on bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound in Pakistan.
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Drug Charges Dismissed After 1 600 Seized Plants Turn Out To Be Daisies
05 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Well I’m certainly looking at this weekend’s Rocking The Daisies festival a little differently. A Canadian man is breathing a huge sigh of relief after police laboratory tests revealed that his grow operation was completely legal. He tried to raise this with the police during the raid, but I’d imagine that the “It’s not weed, I swear!” excuse wasn’t that effective.
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High Density Of Apple Fanboys In New York Contribute To City’s Increased Crime
03 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
While the Apple lovers are not committing the crimes themselves, popularity of the company’s devices in New York is being blamed for the increase of crime in the city. The NYPD commissioner has said that crime in New York City has significantly risen due to the theft of Apple products.
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Transport Strike Update: More Vehicles Torched, Petrol Pumps Start Running Dry
02 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Members of the transport industry are marching in the Johannesburg CBD today to protest their current salaries. Earlier this morning, in related activities, two trucks were set alight in Boksburg outside the Jerusalem Informal Settlement. To make matters worse, reports are starting to come in that petrol pumps around Gauteng and other provinces are starting to run out of fuel fast.
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Sheryl Cwele’s Sentence Goes Up After Appeal
01 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Sheryl Cwele is not a happy bunny today, she and her guilty-as-charged co-accused, Frank Nabolisa, have had their prison sentences increased to 20 years by the Supreme Court of Appeal. The pair were found guilty in May 2011 of drug dealing by the Pietermaritzburg High Court and sentenced to 12 years imprisonment each.
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The Citizen Fires Journalist Who Called Them Out On Doctored Photo
28 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Last week, we reported on a picture that appeared on The Citizen’s front page. It was an image of the recent suicide attack in Kabul. Shortly after the paper came out, Johann “Slang” Hattingh alerted the rest of us to the fact that the image was actually Photoshopped – leading to questions regarding the ethics of the journalism.
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Countrywide Truck Driver Strike Turns Violent [VIDEO]
27 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 5 Comments
Today is the fourth day that approximately 20 000 workers across South Africa from the freight transport sector are on strike over wages. They rejected the latest offer of a staggered 9% increase, and asked for a 12% increase instead. They have promised to “bring the economy to its knees” if their demands are not met.
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New Report Sheds Detail On Cape Town’s Crime Stats
27 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
In the first ever ‘shadow’ report, the provincial MEC, Dan Plato, has given more detail to Cape Town’s crime statistics, using information gathered from police reports and mortuaries. The biggest shock? A lot of 18 – 35 year-old Capetonians are getting stabbed, making up the majority of murder victims.
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US Soldier Killed Following Botched Attempt At Scaring Away Hiccups
26 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Getting rid of a bad attack of hiccups can be a real bitch. You try everything – drinking a glass of water, holding your breath or counting back from 100 while jumping on one leg. A classic method is getting a friend to scare you suddenly. Pulling a gun on them should do the trick.
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BREAKING: Arrest Warrant For Julius Malema Issued
21 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
Adriaan Basson, the assistant editor at City Press, announced a little while ago on Twitter that he had learnt that an arrest warrant for Julius Malema has been issued.
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SA’s 2012 Crime Statistics Overview, Things Are Looking Up
21 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Yesterday, the SAPS released the latest Crime Statistics Overview and, although it might not always seem like it, crime is on a steady downward trend.
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Did The Citizen Newspaper Lose Credibility Over Image Manipulation? [WARNING: Graphic Image]
20 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 10 Comments
WARNING: Graphic content. Yesterday morning, the Citizen newspaper decided to run a front page image of the bomb blast that killed eight South Africans in Afghanistan, but they manipulated the image. The image depicted above is the image that the Citizen ran on their front page. However, the image had been digitally manipulated, despite concerns […]
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Striking Miner Dies After Being Dragged Under Armoured Car
20 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Evans Ramokga, an Amplats strike leader, has told the Associated Press that a miner was run over by a police armoured car and dragged several metres before it stopped yesterday. He said the man died overnight in hospital.
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Victim’s Mother Confronts Sunday Rapist In Court [VIDEO]
19 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
“Jaco Steyn, I am Louise de Waal’s mother – you killed my child and you will pay for what you did.” These words were spoken by the mother of one of the “Sunday Rapist’s” victims shortly before he was found guilty yesterday on 33 charges – including kidnapping, rape, and murder.
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High-Level Shell Executive Sentenced For Printing Child Porn At Work
18 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
One of Shell’s senior executives in the UK has been sentenced for deciding to be smart enough to print out his child porn collection at work. Anthony Sturman, who works at the London office of the oil giant, has now been given eight months and made to sign the sex offender’s register.
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