Well, this is bad news. The the annual crime statistics were released in Pretoria today, and revealed that the murder rate is up 0.6% this year after an annual decline since 2007. And there are loads more people trying to kill other people, but not succeeding. Attempted murder has also increased 6,5% over the past year.
A Swedish court has ruled that masturbation in public is acceptable as long as it is not directed at any particular person.This comes with the acquittal of a 65-year-old man who was charged with sexual assault for masturbating on a beach. The shocking acquittal was ruled by the Södertörn District Court, and raises concerns over what will happen in the future.
New evidence has surfaced in the murder case of Anni Dewani. A series of text messages have been revealed expressing how she felt about her husband and the anguish she felt while she was with him. This is the first evidence to prove Anni was unhappy in her marriage, when she was murdered in a car hijacking in 2010.
Deshnee Subramany and Sarah Evans from Mail & Guardian talk to The Institute for Security Studies’ governance, crime and justice head Gareth Newham. They discuss what to expect when the latest crime stats are released this week, how to unpack the numbers and what these stats might tell us about crime in SA.
Here’s a word of warning to any murderers looking for appeal or bail – if you must wear a chain, keep it on the inside. Two members of the ‘Waterkloof Four,’ Gert van Schalkwyk and Reinach Tiedt, were denied an application for leave to appeal against a previous ruling that they return to Zonderwater prison.
Stephen King’s It has come to life in the small English town of Northampton. A man dressed in full clown attire has been spotted hanging out on street corners late at night, holding colourful flowers, balloons and juggling. Clowns are scary enough as it is in the day-time, but in the middle of night, waving at you from a street corner, they’re terrifying.
The Department of Home Affairs has confirmed it has launched an investigation into the visa irregularities at the Gupta-owned 24-hour news channel, Africa News Network 7 (ANN7), or if you prefer, Gupta-TV.
We published an article on Friday, denouncing ADT for using ‘unknown numbers’ and not sending an SMS when customers’ alarms go off. Instead of implementing basic social comms, they sent this:
Jacob Zuma’s nephew, Khulubuse, and a business partner chartered a jet for R2,5 million to fetch R50 million in gold bars from Conakry, the capital of Guinea. However, on their return they found the “99.9% pure gold bars” were nothing more than copper and zinc knock-offs worth about R7,000. Eish.
A former SAS soldier has confessed, in secrecy, to his wife, that Princess Diana was assassinated by shining a bright light into her driver’s eyes, causing the fatal accident in the Paris tunnel.
Charly, the world’s smallest (hence, cutest) pony has been kidnapped from a horse fair in Italy. The police, who aren’t horsing around on the issue, are suspecting the mafia will hold the pony for ransom.
Yesterday it occurred to me that ADT’s systems are bordering on illegal and we once again urge everyone that subscribes to their services to address this incredibly serious offence with them.
Court documents filed this week recommend that a man going by the online moniker of ‘Fat Longpig’ should be jailed for 27 years for planning the kidnap, rape and eventual cannibalisation of children.
A Toronto woman has been arrested trying to leave Colombia with two kilograms of cocaine inside her fake pregnancy belly. 28-year-old Tabitha Leah Ritchie was stopped while trying to board an Air Canada flight out of Bogota, when an inspector noticed that her pregnant belly was cold and hard. This video shows police removing her […]
It’s tricky to plead not guilty to drinking and driving, when there is a YouTube video that you previously posted, admitting to killing a man whilst driving drunk.
The honeymoon phase wore off quickly for this couple. A woman in Montana is accused of pushing her husband off of a cliff after only being married for just over a week. Jordan Linn Graham is facing second degree murder charges, and could face life in prison.
In the best real-world iteration of Project X yet, students at the University of Delaware turned the city of Newark into ground zero for a massive drunken riot on Monday night.
Last week a truck blasted through a red light in Durban hitting four minibus taxis and three cars in Fields Hill, Pinetown. 19 people died on the scene, and three later passed away in the hospital. Watch this video shot on the dashboard camera of a car directly behind the vehicles that were hit.
Cast your minds back a week. We brought you a story about Kim Jong-Un having his ex-girlfriend executed by machine gun along with 12 other members of an orchestral band, for violating laws against pornography. Here’s the vid..
Another South African has been arrested for possession of child-pornography. This time it’s a 59-year-old Durbanite who was working as a maintenance manager at luxury private game reserves and hotels in KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga.
The video shows cops in America brutally beating a man who is lying defenceless on the ground. The video has just been posted and is starting to create an uproar on Twitter. This kind of brutality is just absurd.
DA MP David Maynier summed the situation up rather nicely when he said, “We welcome the fact that the public protector will effectively be investigating the investigation into Guptagate.” And if that isn’t solid gold, then we don’t know what is
Reports coming out of China are that a dozen people, including Kim Jong-Un’s ex-girlfriend have been executed by machine gun on the order of Kim himself. Sources in China said singer Hyon Song-wol as well as Mun Kyong-jin, head of the Unhasu Orchestra, were arrested on Aug. 17 for violating North Korean laws against pornography […]
With a level of brainlessness usually reserved for dashcam footage from remote corners of Europe (we mean Russia), a Gauteng biker has been filmed leaving a sports bar on a super bike. Oh yes, there was a small child clinging on to the rider’s waist, with no child safety support equipment of any kind. But […]
President Bashar al-Assad of Syria is on Instagram, and he wants everyone to know what he’s been up to. The shots he’s posted so far show the President and his wife doing charitable work, feeding the hungry, embracing children, and being swarmed by loving crowds.
Flashbacks to The Spear. Another political figure has been painted in an unflattering light. This time it’s Russian President Vladimir Putin. The painting depicts him wearing a tight-fitting slip and brushing the hair of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who is also wearing ladies underwear – check it out below.
One week ago today there was an alleged chemical attack in Syria that killed over 1,300 civilians, outside the capital of Damascus. These alleged attacks have been called a “moral obscenity” by US secretary of state, John Kerry, and president Obama has ordered the release of a document justifying a military strike against Syrian military installations.
These drones are becoming more and more popular by the minute. If they’re not delivering you beer at OppiKoppi or sushi in Japan, they’re probably filming you taking a piss in the field at Rocking the Daisies, or at the first US Bull Run in Virginia. Unfortunately for the crowd at the bull run, the […]
Trump University promised its students they would receive “individual instruction until they made their first deal.” Instead, all they got was a picture taken in front of a life-sized cardboard cut-out of the floppy haired Apprentice star, and thousands of dollars of debt resting uncomfortably on their shoulders.
An award-winning author and principal of a high profile private school in White River has been fired following his arrest for child pornography – you can’t trust anyone these days. This guy, who won’t be named until he pleads, has been arrested in connection with an international child pornography syndicate along with six other “professionals” ranging […]