Author name: Scott Balson

A public tip led to the arrest of a suspected drug dealer in Sea Point on Monday, 15 December 2025. A community member alerted Sea Point SAPS officers patrolling Beach Road about a suspicious transaction and identified the suspect to them. The police recognized the 48-year-old man from previous investigations. Upon searching him, officers found […]

Police have arrested a truck driver and another man, recovering stolen cargo valued at R600,000, following a false hijacking report. The 35-year-old driver reported his truck hijacked at the George Police Station on Saturday, 13 December 2025. A joint operation involving the George Crime Prevention Unit, neighbourhood watches, and community safety groups located the abandoned

A 30-year-old Zimbabwean national will appear in the Bellville Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, 18 December 2025. He was arrested on Tuesday, 16 December 2025, after Operation Shanela II members found 1,010 units of abalone in his white Ford Ranger on the R300 in Delft. He faces a charge of possession without a permit. In a

The South African Police Service (SAPS) is searching for suspects after four people were killed in Walmer Township on 14 and 15 December 2025. On 14 December at 21:10, SAPS Walmer found the body of a 39-year-old man with gunshot wounds in Mankazana Street. A murder case was opened. On 15 December at 02:00, police

Barberton police have opened an inquiry after ten buses were destroyed by a fire at a local bus depot on Wednesday, 17 December 2025. The incident occurred around 01:00. Initial reports indicate one bus caught fire. While security personnel investigated and called firefighters, the blaze spread to nine other buses. The cause of the fire

Klerksdorp police have arrested four suspects, aged between 25 and 36, for alleged murder and defeating the ends of justice. They are scheduled to appear in the Klerksdorp Magistrate’s Court on Thursday, 18 December 2025. The arrest relates to the death of 37-year-old Osinakachukwu Macus Onu, a Nigerian national legally residing in the country. He

On Tuesday, 16 December 2025, at approximately 07:45, members of the Tubatse Detective Services arrested a most-wanted murder suspect in Alverton Village, Limpopo. The arrest followed a tip from local residents received during a tracing operation. The suspect is wanted for a murder committed in Bushbuckridge in September 2025, where the victim was fatally stabbed.

The Provincial Commissioner of Police in Limpopo, Lieutenant General Thembi Hadebe, has welcomed the arrest of 1,056 suspects during the intensified week-long #OperationShanela. The high-density operation was conducted across all five districts of the province from Monday, 08 December 2025, to Sunday, 14 December 2025. Lieutenant General Hadebe stated that the ongoing operations are aimed

Limpopo Provincial Commissioner of Police, Lieutenant General Thembi Hadebe, has directed Ritavi police to use all available resources to locate a male suspect in a fatal stabbing. Police were called to Letaba Hospital regarding a murder. They found a deceased female victim in a consulting room. She had been transported by ambulance from Dr C.N.

Police are urgently searching for suspects following the discovery of two women murdered in their Kamagugu home on Monday afternoon, 16 December 2025. The grim find was made after concerned neighbours, troubled by a persistent foul odour and swarm of flies at the property, reported their inability to reach the residents. Upon arrival, police found