It seems as if the truth behind the Radovan Krejcir case is slowly beginning to unravel. He appeared along with his three co-accused at a bail hearing in Palm Ridge Magistrate’s Court in Katlehong yesterday, when the state accused Krejcir of involvement in a worldwide drug-ring.
Yup, it actually happened. At midnight last night, Gauteng’s multi-billion rand etoll network went live.
60 years ago, two children were born in the same hospital. One of them had rich parents – the other had poor parents. In a cruel twist of fate, the children were swapped by the hospital staff.
Donka Panova is a 77 year-old woman who is revered in her community for her “special talent”. Otherwise known as ‘Golden Hands’, Panova is one of the most well respected pick-pockets in Bulgaria.
Following on from our earlier story about “Higella” and her drug use, it’s emerged that there was “a culture of secrecy” between Lawson and ex-husband Charles Saatchi.
Warrant officer Samuel “Saddam” Maropeng, one of the two hawks linked to Czech fugitive Radovan Krejcir, had been leading a lavish lifestyle before his arrest, thanks to his various operations in the criminal underworld.
Ian Watkins has admitted to attempting to rape a baby, and 12 other sex-offence charges hours before the commencement of his trial at the Cardiff crown court in Wales. This, from the Guardian: Watkins, whose former band has sold around 3.5m albums, admitted 13 offences over five years, including attempting to rape one of the […]
BIPS is one of the largest European Bitcoin payment processors. And just last week, they were the victim of a huge Bitcoin heist, which saw them lose 1,295 Bitcoin – currently worth R10 million.
The never-ending Krejcir saga has taken another wild turn, when it was revealed that two Hawks members – linked to the Czech fugitive – were arrested.
We all remember Silk Road, don’t we? That multi-million dollar website that illegally sold drugs using bitcoins? Yes, that one. So, the owner of said site, Ross Ulbricht, was caught and imprisoned. But what was on his laptop at the time he was caught?
Last week we posted CCTV video footage of an extremely clinical hijacking that took place somewhere in Jo’burg. Now we’ve found even more footage of a similarly well-executed hijacking, also taking place in Jo’burg.
Oscar Pistorius has been served. His indictment, which was issued just yesterday, contains two extra charges of recklessly firing his gun out of an open car sunroof last year, and firing someone else’s handgun at a restaurant just weeks before he murdered Reeva Steenkamp. Read the whole indictment here
We all had our suspicions, but it’s now been confirmed. Evidence from the eThekwini Municipality conclusively reveals that the doomed mall in Tongaat had been built illegally.
You may have noticed a few ludicrous art sales happening lately, what with this Andy Warhol painting going for a billion rand, and this Francis Bacon piece which was sold for a billion and a half. But how is this value created? Where does it come from and how does it rise so exponentially? Perhaps the world of crime is to blame.
In America these days, if you’re not knocking out random people on the sidewalk, you’re not cool. Aptly named ‘knockout’, the aim of the game is to identify a target – and then knock him or her out in a single punch. Which is bad enough as it is, but now several teens in New Jersey face jail-time after reportedly beating a homeless man to death.
He just can’t keep out of the headlines, can he? This time he’s had an interview with Emma O’Reilly (the whistleblower who first called him out), and claimed that certain individuals at the very top of the UCI hierarchy played a hand in helping him get away scott-free for so long.
Wian Bonthuyzen, the former Media24 manager of community newspapers in Media24’s Volksblad stable, had some damning evidence against Media24 – and like any slimy old man, he tried to get Media24 to pay him off before he went to the Competition Tribunal.
As the shopfront of of Radovan Krejcir’s bombed-out Money Point cash for gold premises in Bedfordview smouldered yesterday evening, a heavily arm man standing with the grieving relatives of the victims muttered, “Blood will flow. I tell you, now blood will flow.”
Instagram just isn’t the fun, family-friendly service that it used to be. The Facebook-owned platform had some problems a few weeks ago when it was found that users were selling guns via the photo-sharing app. Now though, if you wanted to buy a little bit of drugs to go with your guns, you need not even leave the Instagram app – it’s all there.
We often tend to lambaste the SAPS on this site, but we do also give recognition when recognition is due. And sincere praise is due to one Beauty-Queen Nchabeleng, who went deep undercover to nab a rapist, and make our country that little bit safer.
Honestly – do people not know that CCTV cameras see everything? Apparently not. In the latest episode of ‘smile, you’re on CCTV,’ 22 year-old Dinara, from Turkey, attempts to sell her baby at an airport for R5,000.
In September, we released a story that lamented South Africa’s worsening crime statistics. At the time of release, those statistics were considered to be ‘the worst crime statistics in 10 years’. It turns out that the reality is a lot more worse than worst.
If you’re the grandson of a Nobel Peace Prize winner and all-round good guy, the world kind of expects you to be at least somewhat good-natured, yourself. Such was the expectation that weighed on Mandla Mandela’s shoulders. Furthermore, as Madiba’s eldest grandchild, you’re also expected to handle your affairs with a certain degree of maturity. Sadly, despite the expectations, Mandla managed to mess it all up. Quite badly.
Just after we published the article on Mango Airlines and their case with the ASA, we had a little squizz on their website to see if they had obeyed the ASA’s ruling – and we found something that might be of interest.
There have been rumours about this sort of transaction happening for a while now – but sources in Russia have just confirmed that a deal has very definitely been sealed. What’s more, police have given the lucky lady the green light, claiming that the transaction, “does not fit into a description of the ‘Prostitution’ clause.” Really? It doesn’t?
In 2002, three women from Cleveland, Ohio went missing. In May this year, after 11 years in captivity Amanda Berry, Georgina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight emerged from the basement of Ariel Castro’s house, after Amanda and her new baby managed to escape and alert authorities with the help of this guy. Now, Michelle Knight has come clean about some of the things that their captor, Ariel Castro, had done to them.
Everybody knows the the people at News Of The World are a bunch of lying, hacking, no-good, low-lifes – but it needs to be proven in court before any punitive action can be taken. And now, former News International (NOTW’s parent company) chief executive, Rebekah Brooks, stands accused by the prosecution of orchestrating a conspiracy to pervert the course of justice by using News International employees and resources to hide or destroy notebooks, computers and emails that would prove that NOTW had repeatedly broken the law.
Meet Loyiso Nkohla. Loyiso is the ANC councillor for Ward 98 in Khayelitsha, and a member of the Cape Town provincial Health Portfolio Committee. Loyiso is the man who may be responsible for the riots in Cape Town’s CBD today. This last weekend, Nkohla addressed a gathering of residents in Nyanga’s KTC Hall. The meeting […]
A video has surfaced that shows a pupil at Sizimele High School in Dannhauser, KwaZulu-Natal being murdered in full view of other pupils at his school. Bongani Nkabinde was beaten and speared to death in a fight with other pupils. The horrifying attack happened just after pupils attended their morning assembly.
John Julyan is a former Western Cape relationship manager at Barclays Wealth (a division of Absa). He is also a very naughty man. Not “use tax-payers money to buy porn” level of naughty, but more “steal more money than I can carry” kind of naughty. He was so naughty that he was found guilty on Monday of 39 counts of theft, totalling R15 million.