Category Crime

Traffic officer sentenced for R50 bribe

Traffic officer sentenced for R50 bribe

Thembisile Yende (48), a traffic officer, narrowly escaped a five-year prison term when her sentence was wholly suspended at the Ermelo Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, December 9. Yende was arrested in 2022 in Ermelo after the Hawks Middelburg based Serious Corruption Investigation team responded to motorists’ complains in Ermelo about…

Policewoman fatally stabbed by husband

A 48-year-old man was arrested for allegedly stabbing his wife (43) on the evening of Tuesday, December 2 in Ntunda near Tonga. According to a report, police were conducting routine patrols in the area when they were alerted by community members about a domestic violence incident occurring at a nearby…

Pensioner and co-accused sentenced for murder

Pensioner and co-accused sentenced for murder

A 71 year-old woman, Elina Magagule and her co-accused, Pleasure Ngobeni (35) were sentenced by the Nelspruit Regional Court for murder this week. The sentence follows the arrest of three people accused of assaulting a woman who had confronted the three accused for allegedly stealing her cattle in Acornhoek in…

Man behind bars for lover’s murder

A 42-year-old male was arrested yesterday in at Sihlakwane Village, Groblersdal in the Limpopo province for the alleged murder of a woman. On November 6, a missing person’s inquiry was opened at the Carolina Police Station after Nokuhle Lethukuthula Malaza (26) disappeared. According to police reports, she was last seen…

Police in search of seven year-old girl's killer

Police in search of seven year-old girl’s killer

DELMAS- Police are searching for suspect (s) after a seven-year-old girl was found murdered on Wednesday, 12 November,2025, in Delpark Extension 2. According to police reports, the deceased’s mother, Ayanda Ngwenyama approached the Delmas Police Station on 11 November 2025 to report that daughter, Thandolwethu Mahlangu, had gone missing the…

Pensioner arrested for possession of unlicensed firearm

VAALBANK- A 69 year-old man was released on warning after after he was found with an unlicensed firearm and ammunition on Friday, November 7. According to police, the suspect, Edward Moloto was apprehended by field rangers at Mkhombo Nature Reserve at approximately 12:00. The police were called to the scene,…

Nhlazatshe serial rapist and murderer to life in prison

The High Court of South Africa, Mpumalanga Division has sentenced Comfort Sifundo Nkosi (25) to three life terms and ten years’ imprisonment for gender-based violence-related offences committed in Nhlazatshe. Nkosi was convicted for the murder of his girlfriend, Noxolo Portia Mazibuko, and three counts of rape. The two had been…

Police probe two GBV related murder incidents

Police probe two GBV related murder incidents

Police in the province are investigating two separate incidents of Gender-Based Violence related murders that occurred in Masoyi and Vosman, where one victim was stabbed and another shot. In the first incident, which occurred on 27 October 2025 around 07:30 at Jerusalem Trust in Masoyi, near a tavern, police received…