Three workers from a logistics company were killed in a horrific road accident. The crash happened on the R44 near Wellington, just outside Cape Town, on Monday night, 12 May. The victims were travelling in a staff transport taxi when the driver lost control of the vehicle at about 5pm. Read more
Laurentia “Renz” Lombaard, the key witness in the Joslin Smith case, testified that those who took the girl wanted her for her eyes and skin. She provided this testimony in the Western Cape High Court, held at the White City Multipurpose Centre in Saldanha Bay on Monday, 17 March. Joslin’s Read more
Imaan Syms, 30, was tragically shot and killed on Monday night in Sussex Street, Woodstock. The unidentified suspect fled the scene, leaving the community in shock and mourning. Syms, who was pregnant at the time of the attack, will be laid to rest in accordance with Muslim rites at 11 Read more
Taxi owners and drivers in Cape Town are living in fear as they are being killed by unknown people. On Tuesday morning, 4 March, a 33-year-old taxi owner was shot and killed near the Ramaphosa informal settlement in Philippi, Cape Town, along Govan Mbeki Road. He was one of the Read more
The hartseer family of slain toddler Davin Africa are appealing for help in raising funds to lay him to rest. Nearly two weeks after the horrific shooting in Wesbank which resulted in the death of the four-year-old, his grieving family say they have been unable to bury him due to Read more
Ekuthuleni Primary school principal was killed in a hail of bullets on Thursday morning, 23 January, prompting several parents to take their kids home. Witnesses said that the shooting occurred as pupils and teachers were entering the schoolyard. ALSO READ | 18-year-old shot and killed while walking to the shop The Read more
Cape Town woman wanted to sell a guest house she had been running for over 20 years with her late husband, had to take his three sons to court to compel them to sign the deed of sale. Margaret Hart, 78, was married to the late Peter Dionysius Hart out Read more
Cape Town man who owes more than R200,000 in unpaid traffic fines when an in-vehicle camera triggered an alert behind his bakkie in Cape Town. According to TimesLive, An officer attached to the city’s transport enforcement unit received the alert via a tablet in his vehicle — triggered by an Read more
The City of Cape Town and the South African Police Services (SAPS) Crime Intelligence Unit have shut down an unlicensed butchery in the Western Cape. They were caught manufacturing sausages in an unsanitary condition in the Mfuleni area. Cape Town city councillor JP Smith, said authorities received a tip-off and Read more
Six-year-old Shahnawaz Asghar, who was kidnapped at gunpoint outside his Cape Town home on Thursday, has been found safe and unharmed. The Kasi-Boy has reliably learnt his family had received a ransom request of R800,000 for his safe release. It was not immediately clear whether the entire amount had been Read more