Simon’s Town police responded to a complaint and found ‘bones scattered on the rocks’ upon their arrival at Whale Watchers Beach.
According to reports, both women were freed on Thursday afternoon after their kidnappers allegedly “panicked” because they realised police were closing in.
According to the police, the Combat Team pursued the men along Bosmansdam Road when the suspects opened fire on the cops, who retaliated in kind.
It has now been seven months since six-year-old Joshlin Smith went missing from Diazville, Saldanha Bay in the Western Cape.
Communities along the Wild Coast are rallying to take a stand against criminals who are scaring off tourists and investors, while striking fear into the hearts of locals in this picturesque yet poverty-stricken region.
After all these years there have now been reports revealing her links to the Bulgarian underworld and the suspected mafia boss involved in her disappearance and, allegedly, her possible murder.
When confronted by police, she insisted she had no memory of the strange heist, all thanks to her alcohol-fueled blackout.
Justice has been served for jeweller Charl Munnik who was senselessly murdered when a couple of robbers attacked his shop.
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Ostensibly having run through a list of careers that could put him in the limelight, Moela seems to have settled on the law as the best avenue to stardom
The counterfeiting claims came after a Carte Blanch episode.
The Gauteng Panic Button is free to use and puts residents in immediate touch with a response team.
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.
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.
It’s hard not to be sceptical that the government can handle just how deep this wormhole of illegal activity goes.
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.
Western Cape Police had a busy weekend.
Crime fighters have even raised the alarm over the use of hectic drugs among children on the Cape Flats after an eight-year-old boy was found high on four types of drugs including cocaine.
While the idea sounds loopy, the actual science has been around since 2018.
Robbers are going for the patrons themselves, taking their smartphones and wallets, while also targeting their cars and even their homes when they are out.
While two cyclists managed to get away from knife-wielding suspects in Simon’s Town over the weekend, another cyclist was shot and killed in Brackenfell.
Describing it as “part of a wider sociological phenomenon hiding in plain sight”, the book Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers, makes for uncomfortable, but fascinating reading.
Another senseless crime taking place on Kelvin Road next to the Kelvin Grove Sports Club in Newlands.
New research from Discovery Insure shows what five things cause 60% of fatal car crashes on South Africa’s roads.
Emergency personnel gathered at the scene shortly after the blast, but were shooed away.
According to new information released by nationally trusted security firm ADT, the items that we should be guarding from criminals are more unexpected than you’d guess.
Hey, you have to move with the times, capise?
Forget about handbags, you’d better hang on to your weave when out in Cape Town and Joburg.
“The suspect was caught tripping balls at 900Mbps”.
The entitlement of our corruption-accused public servants is only eclipsed by their ineptness at covering their alleged crimes.