In the first ever ‘shadow’ report, the provincial MEC, Dan Plato, has given more detail to Cape Town’s crime statistics, using information gathered from police reports and mortuaries. The biggest shock? A lot of 18 – 35 year-old Capetonians are getting stabbed, making up the majority of murder victims.
Getting rid of a bad attack of hiccups can be a real bitch. You try everything – drinking a glass of water, holding your breath or counting back from 100 while jumping on one leg. A classic method is getting a friend to scare you suddenly. Pulling a gun on them should do the trick.
Adriaan Basson, the assistant editor at City Press, announced a little while ago on Twitter that he had learnt that an arrest warrant for Julius Malema has been issued.
Yesterday, the SAPS released the latest Crime Statistics Overview and, although it might not always seem like it, crime is on a steady downward trend.
WARNING: Graphic content. Yesterday morning, the Citizen newspaper decided to run a front page image of the bomb blast that killed eight South Africans in Afghanistan, but they manipulated the image. The image depicted above is the image that the Citizen ran on their front page. However, the image had been digitally manipulated, despite concerns […]
Evans Ramokga, an Amplats strike leader, has told the Associated Press that a miner was run over by a police armoured car and dragged several metres before it stopped yesterday. He said the man died overnight in hospital.
“Jaco Steyn, I am Louise de Waal’s mother – you killed my child and you will pay for what you did.” These words were spoken by the mother of one of the “Sunday Rapist’s” victims shortly before he was found guilty yesterday on 33 charges – including kidnapping, rape, and murder.
One of Shell’s senior executives in the UK has been sentenced for deciding to be smart enough to print out his child porn collection at work. Anthony Sturman, who works at the London office of the oil giant, has now been given eight months and made to sign the sex offender’s register.
In yet more violent retaliation against a film mocking the Prophet Mohammed, the Hezb-i-Islami insurgent group has claimed responsibility for an attack that’s killed 12 people, including South Africans, in Kabul, Afghanistan today.
Our recent article on Stephen Birch and his theory on the location of Madeleine McCann’s body has been a hot topic of discussion lately. Many people took to the comments section of this article, offering many new viewpoints on what exactly has happened. Stephen Birch’s podcast has been listened to almost 300 times – which is quite something seeing it’s over 30 minutes long.
Yesterday we told you we’d be having Stephen Birch on 2oceansVibe radio. If you missed his incredible story, you missed out. It’s a fantastic tale, and the South African property developer swears that he’s found her body buried in a driveway.
Some of you may remember this guy, Stephen Birch. He’s a South African, who claims to have found Madeleine McCann’s grave, and – get this – the Portuguese government know about it too, but choose not to act on it. Birch will be live on Mark Bayly’s show at 16h15 this afternoon. Make sure you […]
A suspected drunk driver has been caught on camera crashing into a petrol pump at a filling station in Kroonstad. As you’ll see from the footage, the driver literally missed crushing the petrol attendant to death by milliseconds. But unbelievably no one was injured. The driver, identified as one Molefi Mokoena, then proceeded to belly-flop out his car window before trying to escape. He was however quickly apprehended by witnesses and appeared in the Kroonstad Magistrate’s court on charges of drunk driving.
This is seriously creepy. When Tracy, a single mother of five, heard strange noises coming from her roof, it was only natural to assume that some kind of animal had managed to find its way in there. Must have been quite a shock to find the man that she broke up with 12 years ago.
A North African man, believed to be in his thirties, has fallen thousands of feet onto a car in the London suburb of Mortlake. He froze to death, and had fallen out of an airplane’s landing gear. The plane had been on its way to Heathrow.
Not only will drivers caught speaking on their mobiles face a new R1 500 fine, but those texting will also face the strong arm of the law.
It was reported today that Seychelles authorities have withdrawn a case of negligence against Stefan Pokorny, of Austria, last week. He had been arrested in Seychelles after a Cape Town yachtsman went missing.
Four men were arrested following an attempted robbery, shootout and accident in Woodstock this morning.
On Sunday, a group of young German men, who call themselves the “Bavarian Dumbasses,” were attempting to add to their repertoire of Jackass-like stunts when events took a horrible turn for the worse. A misguided attempt to emulate their American counterparts ended in tragedy after a playground stunt lead to the death of one of the performers.
For some reason, investigators decided against opening a car following a gruesome shooting attack on a family of British holidaymakers on a remote road in the French Alps yesterday.
Striking miners are deciding to stick with violence as a means to solve the problems at Lonmin’s Marikana mine. Representatives of protesting workers who marched 5km to Lonmin’s Karee mine today from Marikana, said that they will kill Lonmin management unless they stop operations at the platinum mine.
The press have repeatedly been denied access to speak to the hospitalised or imprisoned survivors of the Marikana mine riots, but since their release began this week, one miner in particular has found the courage to tell his story.
On Friday, the body of a young man from Cape Town was found in Khayelitsha, he was killed after trying to sell his BMW to a man who responded to his ad on Gumtree.
Professor Igor Danilevskiy has admitted to stabbing to death to people in an apartment in Kazan, Russia Todau reports. The crazed man scrawled “Free Pussy Riot” on the wall in the victims blood which he said was meant to confuse the cops into thinking it was a ritual killing.
Yesterday, in a “bizarre and shocking” act, the National Prosecuting Authority slammed the 270 miners who were arrested at Marikana with charges of murdering 34 of their colleagues who were among them. Law expert, Pierre de Vos, has called the “shameful” decision a “flagrant abuse of the criminal justice system”.
The bodies of two women in the Russian Republic of Kazan, were found yesterday evening in an apparent statement on the imprisonment of punk band Pussy Riot. They were found in their apartment with multiple stab wounds, and the words “Free! Pussy Riot” [sic] painted on the wall in what police believe were the victims’ blood.
A South African woman is facing the death penalty in Indonesia after she was caught with 6kg of crystal meth, locally known as tik, at Sam Ratulangi International Airport in Manado earlier this month.
Post-mortem analysis of the shooting at Marikana has revealed startling new evidence, showing that the death of the 36 protestors at the hands of the police may not have been due to the police acting in self-defense. This is contrary to earlier reports that have stated that police retaliated at a small group charging at them with machetes.
A laid-off clothing designer fatally shot a former colleague near the Empire State Building on Friday morning. In turn, he was shot dead by police officers during a confrontation that also wounded nine bystanders. Newly released CCTV footage shows the moment the shootout happened. Please be warned that this is not for sensitive viewers.
In a case that has dragged on for nine years, and been in court for three, an American man is set to feel the full wrath of the music industry after it was confirmed by court on Friday that he will have to pay $675 000 in damages for downloading and sharing just 30 songs from once-popular music-sharing sites, Napster and Kazaa.