A hostage situation at Gold One Mine in Springs has taken a sinister racial turn.
Last week Thursday, police arrested two suspects at two Cape Town hotels while investigating a hostage situation.
Denyse Holt was rescued from a hostage situation in her own home in Chicago due in large part to her failure to complete the game’s daily challenge.
A Los Angeles man was shot dead by a member of the SWAT team who had barged in to rescue a female victim being held by gunpoint.
Friends of Princess Latifa Al Maktoum managed to smuggle her a phone, through which she sent videos from prison before all communication ceased.
An armed man who took 13 people hostage in Ukraine is clearly a big fan of Joaquin Phoenix’s work.
David and Louise Turpin aren’t exactly model parents, and the more we learn about their methods the worse it gets. How about the Elvis obsession?
After an early morning escape, a 17-year-old girl was able to call for help and successfully free the rest of her siblings who had been chained and bound.
A 39-year-old man in Mossel Bay took family members hostage yesterday, firing on police during a tense stand off. It didn’t end well for him.
Sporting a beard and a surprisingly upbeat attitude, Stephen McGown shared what it was like to be held captive by terrorists in the Sahara desert.
A delegation sent to speak to a man who was known for erratic behaviour were held hostage for five hours yesterday afternoon, and things didn’t end well.
Tempers flared during an address by provincial minister in charge of transport in Gauteng Ismail Vadi, who was eventually saved by police.
An alleged suicidal warder has locked himself in the armoury in Westville Prison and, as the story continues, SAPS attempts to defuse the situation.
Guests and staff at a luxury hotel in Mali were attacked by gunmen early this morning, with around 170 people now believed to be held hostage.
A man has been involved in a fatal shoot-out with police after he holed himself up in house in Athlone. It seems he has an interesting history.
Pictures have emerged from inside the Parisian deli where hostages were taken Friday, and they are rather chilling.
The threat of IS is growing and growing each day, as countries who are trying to help Iraq are threatened by the group. Now a part of IS in Africa is joining in on the fun.
In a very calm plea, an ISIS hostages mother asks that her son be returned. Considering what happened to his former cell mate, the odds don’t look good, but one can only hope ISIS listens.
The family of James Foley have released the final email sent by his kidnappers telling them he would be killed – just days before the video of his murder emerged.
This is terrifying, and it happened right under our noses.
Hostage situations don’t occur everyday, but only in a low budget action film would you see a man wielding a meat-cleaver as his weapon of choice. Check out the radical images of a crazy man in China holding a woman hostage with a meat-cleaver.
In a video published on YouTube recently, three men kidnapped in Mali last year by al-Qaeda say they are well. One of the men is South African Stephen Malcom McGown.
After 547 days of being held as hostages in Afghanistan, two French journalists,Hervé Ghesquière and Stéphane Taponier, have been released and are due back in France today. The two were kidnapped on the 30th of December 2009 along with their Afghan translator, fixer and driver in the mountainous Kapisa province northeast of the Afghan capital of Kabul.