Author name: Scott Balson

On Thursday, 16 October 2025 at about 23:40, members of the Anti-Gang Unit were deployed to the Bishop Lavis policing precinct. The operations mandate was to stabilize the Valhalla Park area following a recent spike in gang-related shootings, murders, and attempted murders, with a specific focus on disturbing the activities of local gang groupings. A […]

The KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Organised Crime: Murder and Robbery Unit detectives have made a major breakthrough on Thursday, 16 October 2025 when they arrested a security company owner, 52-year-old Bruce Mhlongo for the murder of a primary school teacher who was shot and killed on 18 February 2022. On that fateful afternoon, Thabani Innocent Zondi, who

A 20-year-old suspect who was wanted for the murder of a man who was shot and killed on the bridge on Siyanda Road at Wiggins on 12 October 2025 was shot and fatally wounded in a shootout with police on Thursday afternoon, 16 October 2025. Police conducted an intelligence-driven operation which led them to a

Incident Report: Suspect Vehicle with Cloned Plates Intercepted During a recent patrol, our Community Responders used License Plate Recognition (LPR) technology to identify a suspect vehicle using cloned license plates. Silverton SAPS’s investigations revealed that the vehicle was linked to multiple cell phone thefts. Thanks to swift coordination, TMPD successfully intercepted the vehicle. Two suspects

An investigation by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has implicated senior Fort Hare ICT staff and numerous external service providers in an alleged multimillion-rand scam. A draft affidavit by an SIU Chief Forensic Investigator in East London describes how over R17-million was paid to 28 businesses for services that were never rendered. The affidavit says

More than a hundred activists marched in Cape Town on Friday, urging the government to respond to a growing hunger crisis in South Africa. Many of them work in community kitchens on the Cape Flats, The activists, under the banner of the “Union Against Hunger”, had hoped to hand over a memorandum to President Cyril

Otters’ Creek Junior School in Ottery, which caters for learners with special needs, will have to close down next month. According to the City of Cape Town, the school has been operating without the necessary land use rights since it opened. Now parents are scrambling to find places at other special needs schools, which already

Duma receives a report from a No-Nonsense RTI at 01:30am and is happy that the highly energized team is cleaning our road networks* Media and Public Statement by the MEC for Transport and Human Settlements Siboniso Duma 18 October 2025 Inkosi Mhlabunzima Maphumulo House: I wish to commend our highly energized team from Road Traffic

A man sustained injuries during an armed hijacking incident that occurred along Gokal Road in the Avoca area, Durban on the evening of Thursday, 16 October 2025. KZNVIP Ambulance Services were dispatched to the scene after reports were received of a hijacking where a victim had been injured in the Avoca area. Upon arrival, KZNVIP

PARYS – The Sasolburg Highway Patrol Relief “D” conducted a successful operation as part of Operation Shanela II on Wednesday, 15 October 2025, at about 22:30, on the N1 road next to the R59 off ramp towards Kroonstad. During the operation, the members spotted a suspicious vehicle on the N1 and managed to stop and