The Hawks have arrested a 53-year-old police captain for allegedly removing empty cartridges from the scene of a business robbery in Thembalethu, George, in January.

A negligent driving case against a former North West traffic official that wasn't pursued since 2016, has been put on the court roll.

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Disgraced Kanneland mayor Jeffery Donson could be wearing his mayoral chain again, this after a Western Cape High Court ruled in favour of him after he brought an application to have his motion of no confidence challenged.

The Western Cape hamlet of Robertson was on Thursday and Friday rocked by clashes between seasonal farmworkers from Lesotho and Zimbabwe.

A Free State man's bid to appeal his conviction and sentence for the murder of his pregnant partner was dismissed in the Bloemfontein High Court.

The police are battling sophisticated syndicates behind the escalating kidnapping of businesspeople in the country.

Controversial entrepreneur Edwin Sodi was on Friday granted R150 000 bail at the Randburg Magistrate's Court on attempted murder charges.

This week, on The Story, an aviation expert tells News24 the grounding of kulula.com and domestic British Airways flights, operated by Comair, should have been a "last resort".

President Cyril Ramaphosa wrote to Busisiwe Mkhwebane, asking her to explain why he should not suspend her.

The acting principal already had a previous conviction for indecently assaulting a teenager. His criminal record was never picked up.

The two women who turned to the courts after the Clicks TRESemmé advert furore in 2020, said they did so because just having conversations about race and discrimination was not enough.

A Limpopo prosecutor, his wife, a site manager and 14 "ghost workers" arrested in connection with R900 000 tender fraud have been granted bail in the Makhado Magistrate's Court.

A Gauteng man who set his former lover's home alight and killed her five-year-old sibling in the process, has been sentenced to life in prison.

The EFF says it believes President Cyril Ramaphosa's move to possibly suspend Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane is dictatorial and fear-driven.

Zola Tongo, the shuttle bus driver who helped to orchestrate the murder of Swedish tourist Anni Dewani in Cape Town in 2010, has been granted parole.

Police Minister Bheki Cele has promised residents living in gang-ridden areas of Cape Town that more boots will be on the ground to keep the peace.

Mchunu arrived at court dressed in traditional attire and supported by armed men in black who stood guard outside the court with rifles and handguns.

Two security guards have been injured in a cash-in-transit heist in Pretoria, according to Gauteng paramedics.

Five vehicles - two Golden Arrow buses, a council truck and light duty vehicle, as well as an Eskom vehicle - were set alight during protest action in Nyanga on Friday morning.