Whatever was happening at the base, people from the local villages say they have known about the training grounds for a while now, and report that the soldiers/security guards roamed around the nearby villages in groups, harassing people and ‘behaving in an almost arrogant manner’.
The disruptions come after concerns over possible security threats during the Olympics as millions of visitors and thousands of athletes will flock to Paris.
The desperate hunt for kidnapped businessman Calvin Naidoo enters the sixth day, with the kidnappers now demanding a ransom.
The South African Police Service and the Hawks have been working overtime busting massive drug operations across the country.
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Emily Leuner, 38, was shot after a disciplinary hearing when the employee returned to the lodge and shot her four times in the upper body and legs.
Things took a weird turn when police questioned the other inmates in the cell, who then claimed Ali and Mustafa made strange ‘owl-like noises’, before transforming into cats and slipping through the bars.
That Goolam X account that has been bent on blackmailing politicians and media professionals has just caused another Independent Media Group scandal.
Springboks winger Sbu Nkosi might have just played his last match.
Former champion boxer and “one Johannesburg’s most notorious thugs”, Mark Strydom, died in a shooting on Saturday night after allegedly pulling a gun on a woman.
The official trailer for the French-language psychological thriller Red Rooms is here, offering a dark look at society’s obsession with true crime.
An ongoing political scandal playing out via an anonymous X account has South Africans feeling like we have our very own Lady Whistledown – but unlike Bridgerton, this secret gossiper is far from being exposed.
A Cape Town Uber driver has been arrested after a 28-year-old woman sustained injuries when he tried to rob and kidnap her on a trip home.
A messy (‘scuse the pun) scene is unfolding in the world of international football, following a live stream video of the Argentinean national soccer team using a racist chant while travelling in their team bus.
It’s not so much the joyride that thieves are after, but the car parts that can be resold on the black market.
Parents in the small Western Cape town of Swellendam are accused of fraudulently funnelling funds using an account they opened in their daughter’s name when she was nine.
It’s hard not to be sceptical that the government can handle just how deep this wormhole of illegal activity goes.
The prisoner tells his ‘haters’ not to worry about them being in prison because they have access to free food, electricity, and education.
The fugitive couple connected to the former high jumper’s murder have vanished but in the meantime, new twists and allegations have surfaced around the shocking case.
Some of the thinking is that law enforcement’s failure to act is a sign that the apparent assassination attempt was coordinated by the “deep state”.
A forensic investigator describes the latest shenanigans of scammers, who are now using pseudo-spiritual practices to lure their unsuspecting victims in.
The botched project ultimately claimed the lives of 144 mental health patients after they were relocated to cheaper care centres.
Police said Chantelle Oosthuizen and Rudie Lubbe are believed to be on the run from the law following the discovery of Freitag’s body.
In finance, having the right credentials – like degrees from top schools, experience at an A-list hedge fund, and spending summers in the right Long Island towns – has always been a proven way to pass through many of the industry’s key filters.
Shame, its a bit rof if you have a Toyota bakkie in South Africa.
Prosecutors told the court she had believed being a mother would spoil her career as an executive in the luxury carmaker’s legal department.
From January 2024 to date, 49 kidnappers who had demanded ransom payment from families of victims have been arrested in Gauteng, North West, and the Free State.
One FBI agent says he was home in Florida when she was hit by a crippling force “like a dentist drilling on steroids” and has not been the same person since.
The reported kidnapping of an alleged 28 gang boss last week by a Colombian drug cartel following a ‘failed international drug heist off the shores of Western Cape’ should be a clear indication that the wolves are no longer at the door, they are inside our house and getting comfortable on your couch.
Western Cape Police had a busy weekend.