South Africa

A 39-year-old female suspect was arrested for the attempted murder of a 40-year-old female victim at a retail store in the Namakgale policing area on Thursday, 29 January 2026, at approximately 08:50. The victim was contacted en route to work by a colleague who informed her a woman was looking for her at the store. […]

Police have arrested a 28-year-old man from Mashaeng after the body of his 6-year-old biological son was found hidden under a bed. The child was last seen by his grandmother on Thursday, 29 January 2026. She alleges the father assaulted the boy with a wooden stick that day in her presence. When questioned, he stated

On Friday, 30 January 2026, Port Nolloth police arrested two men for illegal possession of unpolished diamonds. Police acted on anonymous information about a diamond sale from a vehicle. They located a Nissan Light Delivery Van opposite the beach. A search found a substantial amount of unpolished diamonds hidden in the vehicle’s steering wheel cover.

On a June 2024 operation, the South African Police Service at the Lebombo Port of Entry intercepted a Mozambican minibus. A search revealed 17 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine, valued at R4.25 million, concealed in 17 containers hidden in various compartments, including speakers. The sole occupant, 39-year-old Mozambican national Jorge Salomao Chimene, was arrested. The case

Auditor-General Tsakani Maluleke says the government’s “no-consequence” culture is keeping the country back from better service delivery and financial performance. Officials implicated in irregular or fruitless expenditure are seldom held to account, Maluleke said in the 2023/24 Public Finance Management Act report, which covered the country’s sixth administration and President Cyril Ramaphosa’s first term in

KwaZulu-Natal police arrested a suspected cash-in-transit robber and recovered explosives in Inanda just after midnight on Saturday, 31 January 2026. Members of the Inanda Trio Task Team were patrolling near Ithendele Road and the M25 Curnick Ndlovu Highway when they noticed a parked white VW Polo. Police searched the vehicle and found explosives with detonators

Police arrested two foreign nationals and recovered multiple stolen vehicles, including a truck recently robbed in Gauteng, during a search operation in Belfast on Thursday, January 29, 2026. Acting on intelligence, a joint team from the Middelburg Flying Squad, a private tracking company, and Belfast Police located a stolen truck at a premises on Bhekimuzi

Giyani Regional Court sentenced 33-year-old Hlamalani Muxe Sambo to ten years’ imprisonment on Thursday, 29 January 2026, for a house robbery in Mphagane village. The court also declared him unfit to possess a firearm. On Wednesday, 01 August 2024, a female victim was sleeping at her home when Sambo entered and pointed a firearm at

The Free State SAPS has welcomed the sentences handed down by the Parys Regional Court against two men convicted for the murder and robbery of a local farmer in January 2025. The convictions relate to a violent incident in the early hours of January 10, 2025, at Morelig Farm in the Parys area. The victims,

Early this morning, South African Police Service members arrested two suspects in Welkom and recovered an illegal firearm. At approximately 04:00, officers from Welkom Platoon 01, Section 1, acting on a tip-off, approached two suspicious males at a filling station on Constantia Road. A search found one black and silver Norinco pistol, four live rounds