Category Crime

Karabo rearrested after escaping from custody

Karabo rearrested after escaping from custody

Karabo Chiloane (29) was sentenced after being rearrested for escaping while attending a case in the Belfast Magistrate’s Court last month. READ | Barberton escapee re-arrested He was handed three years direct imprisonment on September 23, 2022 after the court heard how Chiloane escaped from lawful custody. READ MORE | Offender escapes…

Hawks arrest Mbombela Municipality staffers for R60 million fraud

Hawks arrest staff members for R60 million fraud

The Hawks have arrested three suspects for fraud, theft and money laundering to the amount of R60 million. READ | Former municipal officials arrested for fraud Two staffers were arrested at the Mbombela Municipality and Mbombela Traffic Department, respectively. The Hawks added they will make more arrests. READ MORE | Cogta employee…

Mduduzi Gama's bail hearing continues today

Mduduzi Gama’s bail hearing continues tomorrow

MBOMBELA – Murder-accussed in Hillary Gardee’s case, Albert Mduduzi Gama continues tomorrow. READ | #HillaryGadee | Fifth suspect to appear in court Gama, Sipho Mkhathswa and Philemon Lukhele appeared in the Nelspruit Magistrate’s Court on Friday. They are facing charges of conspiracy to commit murder, murder, kidnapping, possession of unlicenced firearm,possession…

Police foil business robbery

Human bones discovered at Delmas farm

Bones of a human were discovered in the field at a certain farm in Delmas on September 1. The police confirmed they were investigating an inquest case. According to the Delmas police, they received a tip-off coming from a game hunter about the discovery at Hekpoort Farm near R42, Bronkhorstspruit…

Love triangle ends in murder

A 38-year-old Muzi Shakwane allegedly murdered a man after he found him and his girlfriend in the house on August 19. He made his first appearance at the Bushbuckridge Magistrate’s Court yesterday following the incident. READ | Man hands himself over for murder of minor According to the police, the deceased…

Mother dumps newborn next to railway

Mother dumps newborn next to railway

A 37-year-old woman dumped her newborn in the bushes next to a railway in Dullstroom on Sunday afternoon. READ | Mother and children burn to death in Klarinet The police received a tip-off from a passerby who remained anonymous that he spotted what looked like a baby. Upon arrival, the police…

Foreign national caught selling fake yeast

Foreign national caught selling fake yeast

Abraham Desalenge Menedo was arrested for selling counterfeit goods yesterday. He was granted R1000 bail by the Tonga Magistrate’s Court on Friday after he was arrested for Contravening Section 2 (1) and Section 2 (2) of the Counterfeit Goods Act, Act 37 of 1997. READ | Security guard nabbed for stolen…

Man hands himself over for murder of minor

MIDDELBURG – A man is behind bars following the killing of a 10-year-old boy on Mhluzi on Sunday, August 14. READ | Pensioner and her sons linked to traffic officer’s murder Police say the boy was shot deaf after a soccer tournament around 18:00 on the day. “Reports reveal that there were…

Kwaggafontein shop owner arrested for rape

Father sentenced for raping daughter at gravesite

He was supposed to perform a ritual for his daughter in April 2019, but he instead raped her at a gravesite. The 34-year-old man from Masoyi was sentenced to 22 years’ direct imprisonment by the Nelspruit Sexual offences Court. READ | Suspect rapes his grandmother and cousin According to the National…

Family identifies daughter’s remains

A family have identified clothing items of their 15-year-old daughter who went missing in January. Her decomposed body was discovered in the bushes at Nkanini Trust near Masoyi outside White River on Sunday. Children from an initiation school who were in the bushes searching for wooden sticks when they trembled…