Author name: Scott Balson

A 34-year-old security officer will appear in the Mokopane Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, 27 January 2026, charged with murder. The charge relates to the fatal shooting of a man in Mokopane town in the early hours of Monday, 26 January 2026. Police report that an argument between the suspect and the deceased occurred at approximately […]

The Phuthaditjhaba Public Order Policing Unit arrested five suspects for the murder of a 20-year-old man from Matsikeng, Makwane Village. On 20 January 2026, three suspects lured the victim to Matsikeng Village by falsely claiming his girlfriend was in trouble. He was restrained, taken to a farm in the Maluti area, and killed. Community information

A coordinated, intelligence-driven operation in the Jeff’sville Informal Settlement, Atteridgeville, this morning resulted in the successful recovery of an arsenal of illegal firearms and ammunition. The operation was conducted by a multidisciplinary team from the South African Police Service (SAPS). Units involved included the Pretoria Public Order Policing (POP) unit, Crime Intelligence, and the Atteridgeville

On 25 January 2026 at 05:00, police were alerted to a house fire in Mbobo village, Palmietfontein. Arriving officers found the blaze being extinguished by community members. Inside, they discovered the body of an 18-year-old female on a bed, covered with clothes, blankets, and books. The victim had sustained four stab wounds to her throat.

The suspects, aged 38 to 61, were arrested in a joint operation involving the Gauteng Hawks, SARS Forensic Investigation, INTERPOL, SABRIC, Standard Bank, and FNB. INTERPOL participated under its global Operation JACKAL, deploying a senior representative from its Financial Crimes Directorate. The investigation began in 2022 after statements from forty-three Australian victims. The syndicates allegedly

Dawn Celeste Pieterson (46) was sentenced by the Calvinia Specialised Commercial Crime Court on Monday, 26 January 2026. She was convicted by the same court on Wednesday, 1 October 2025. Pieterson was found guilty on all charges: nine counts of fraud and two counts of contravening Section 31(1)(d) of the Births and Deaths Registration Act

Police are investigating a murder and house robbery at a smallholding outside Humansdorp. Officers were called to the farm along the R102 at approximately 01:30 on Tuesday, 27 January 2026. At the scene, they found the body of a 60-year-old man with open wounds. The identity of the deceased is withheld pending formal identification. The

A severe and ongoing water outage, now entering its fifth day, has forced public schools across the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro to drastically shorten the school day, raising significant health, hygiene, and educational concerns. The crisis has rendered ablution facilities at many public schools inoperable or unsanitary, directly cutting into crucial teaching and learning time.

Two suspects appeared in the Springbok Magistrates Court on Monday, 26 January 2026, following their arrests the previous day for alleged contravention of the Nature Conservation Act 9 of 2009. The men, aged 21 and 28, were arrested in Okiep on Sunday, 25 January 2026, at approximately 08:40. The arrest stems from the alleged theft

Police in Modimolle, Waterberg District, Limpopo, are searching for three suspects following an armed robbery at a construction site in Phomolong Extension 11. The incident occurred at the ‘Baphalaborwa 72’ Construction Site on Saturday, 24 January 2026, at approximately 21:00. According to a police report, a security guard on duty was confronted by three unknown