Today marks the start of the ’16 Days of Activism’ campaign, with this year’s theme being ‘women’s economic justice for a nonviolent and non-sexist South Africa’. Meanwhile, within the ANC.
15 months after Jeffrey Epstein died from what was officially ruled a suicide by hanging, prison authorities are taking no chances with Ghislaine Maxwell.
Prior to being gunned down in a hail of bullets last Friday, the former 28s boss sent out a video warning about the dangers of gang life.
The outcome of Ace Magashule’s trial will have huge, far-reaching implications for this country going forward. Here’s a quick recap of how we got to this point.
In 1971, a man hijacked a plane, was given $200 000 in ransom money, parachuted out of said plane in a black suit, and was never seen again. It remains the only unsolved plane hijacking in US history.
Ernie “Lastig” Solomon was gunned down in a hail of bullets in Boksburg last Friday, after two men opened fire on his BMW. According to sources, his life was bound to end this way.
A shooting has taken place at the Cape Town Station Deck taxi rank, leaving multiple people injured.
During a protest on Thursday, November 19, a man was tipped out of his wheelchair by law enforcement officers.
With Magashule’s arrest earlier this month, lines have finally been drawn in the sand. The next few weeks are going to reveal a great deal about who holds party power.
A 28-year-old Cape Town businessman was unaware that the loan he had taken out was from a man with underworld connections. In December last year, he found out the hard way.
Self-styled ‘prophet’ Shepherd Bushiri and his wife finally handed themselves over to Malawian authorities yesterday, after fleeing the country. The couple lives a rather lavish lifestyle.
Extortion is alive and well in the Cape Town CBD, and business owners who speak out often find themselves on the receiving end of death threats and violence.
A taxi strike is underway in Gauteng, as the National Taxi Alliance (NTA) protests outstanding COVID-19 relief fund payments.
Apart from his alleged $35 million Ponzi scheme, Matthew Piercey will go down in history as the guy who tried to evade justice using a water scooter.
Gerhard Jansen van Vuuren fled the country before he could face trial for the brutal 2011 murder of Andrea Venter. Finally, he has returned home.
The quarterly crime stats, released by police minister Bheki Cele, show a marked increase from the three months prior.
During the US Prohibition years, gangster Dutch Schultz grew in both wealth and power, but he wasn’t a big believer in keeping his fortune in a bank.
A number of countries require negative COVID-19 tests at airports, which has provided fraudsters with the perfect opportunity to make some cash.
Cape Town-based international male model Keagan Carl Troskie has been charged with allegedly trying to strangle and suffocate his wife.
When detectives found a body dumped in Sunnyside, Pretoria, back in May, the fact that the body was wrapped in a sheet and a curtain, along with fallen leaves found alongside the body, proved crucial.
Back in September, ESPN announced ‘The Life and Trials of Oscar Pistorius’, which had been several years in the making. Now it’s under fire for how it portrays the disgraced athlete’s life.
In another brazen morning jewellery heist, armed crooks attacked Narandas Jewellers at Gateway Mall in Durban.
Having seized the coastal town of Palma, the reign of terror continues, with several villages in Cabo Delgado province coming under attack this week.
Shackled legs, armed guards, and a team of medical professionals bringing him back from the brink – here’s how Angelo Agrizzi describes the past few weeks.
I guess after a long day of heisting and terrifying CIT van drivers, it’s nice to settle into a Porsche as you drive away from the scene of the crime.
Jeffrey Epstein died a rich man, with an extensive list of properties under his estate. One of those is the infamous Palm Beach mansion.
The investigation into the alleged murder of Vladimir Marugov has taken some bizarre twists and turns, with no sign of slowing down.
Simone Jasmin, perhaps better known as ‘Queen of the South’, was laid to rest yesterday, with residents in the south of Durban lining the streets as the hearse passed by.
The perpetrator of the terror attack in Austria had been enrolled in a deradicalisation programme before he took to the streets armed with a machete and two guns.
It has been less than a month since the Aarto Act was gazetted, and we’re already seeing confusion and criminals looking to take advantage of it.