Mbuso Moloi, perhaps best known as the ‘Mercedes Woolies looter’, was caught out in a web of lies after footage showed him leaving a Durban outlet.
Jean-Claude van Damme proved to be a distraction with dire consequences when a jewellery thief made off with €3 million worth of gems in a Parisian heist.
‘Stomach in, chest out’ was the rallying cry regarding the fitness of our country’s officers and soldiers. This video paints a different picture.
South African-born Hamilton Cheong, a forensic sleuth now based in the US, is determined to get to the bottom of the missing Africrypt funds.
A Twitter account under the name ‘Tracy Zille’ shot to prominence last year and quickly racked up more than 30 000 followers. An investigation soon drew back the curtain.
Raees Cajee, one half of the duo behind Africrypt, a so-called cryptocurrency investment platform that the brothers’ claim was hacked, has now filed court papers to oppose the company’s liquidation.
At least 11 cats have been brutally murdered, making this one of the largest animal killing sprees the Cape Metro has ever witnessed.
In KwaZulu-Natal, a large blue sofa that was taken during last week’s looting had Twitter sleuths digging around.
In the profitable world of rhino horn syndicates, one name stands tall above the rest – Dawie Groenewald, who is credited with having “a genius for staying out of jail”.
The South African Police Service is out in full force, so it is a good time to discuss your rights if you’re pulled over at a roadblock.
M-Net’s new crime thriller series is debuting this Sunday, complete with a stellar local cast and an actor from ‘Game Of Thrones’.
The couple who sparked last year’s deadly cross-country El Dorado wildfire after a botched gender reveal party are being made to pay for their mistake.
You might not know the name Richard Wershe Jr., but you’ve probably heard of White Boy Rick.
According to filmmaker Anthony George Kirkwood, “no one could train you for what we have witnessed on the frontline”.
Hotel meetings, sleight of hand swaps, and a change of clothing in a pub toilet all form part of an elaborate London jewellery heist.
In amongst the videos of chaos at the central Cape Town terminal, and gunfire in Langa, it’s easy to lose sight of the root cause of what we are witnessing.
Since the start of the year, at least 82 people have been murdered in Western Cape taxi violence, and the past week has seen things worsen.
Katie Hopkins is no longer welcome in Australia after openly mocking the country’s quarantine measures.
I know, you probably saw this video last week already. No harm in watching it again before you carry on with your day.
An 18-year-old momentarily hijacked a plane flying to a tiny town in Alaska, which had five other passengers on board.
It doesn’t seem to matter that the cameras are rolling, because it’s been total and utter anarchy in parts of the country.
Ameer Cajee and Raees Cajee, dubbed South Africa’s ‘crypto bros’ by many, have gone rather quiet. Now their names have turned up in connection with Vanuatu’s “golden passports” scheme.
Guo Xinzhen has finally been found and reunited with his family, 24 years after being abducted in eastern China.
The US Court of Appeals has ruled that Joe Maldonado-Passage, better known as Joe Exotic, should have his prison sentence shortened.
What we have witnessed this past week or so are not merely random acts of violence, but rather a planned and executed “insurrection”, using social media mobilisation and the know-how of former uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) operatives.
The man filmed exiting a Durban Woolies as it was looted and hopping into a Mercedes-Benz has flatly denied any wrongdoing. Twitter sleuths never rest, though.
Sacha Baron Cohen’s 2018 series ‘Who is America?’ made a fool out of many US politicians and public figures. Roy Moore, then a US Senate candidate, was one of them.
It’s easy to blame those stoking the fires on social media, and they do shoulder a large burden of responsibility, but there are also forces operating in the shadows.
Sorry in advance. Feel free to exit stage left if you don’t want to go down this road, or just need a break from all of the negativity.
When your citizens have so little, for so long, and their pleas for assistance go unanswered, desperation sets in. Some of the looting, however, was indefensible.