Crime News

PROVINCIAL COMMISSIONER GLADLY WELCOMES THE HEFTY SENTENCES HANDED DOWN TO POACHERS Nelspruit: The Provincial Commissioner of the SAPS in Mpumalanga, Lieutenant General Semakaleng Daphney Manamela has gladly welcomed the hefty sentences handed down by the Skukuza Regional Court to three poachers who are Mozambican Nationals, Lowrene Makamu (28), George Muyanga...

POLICE CAPTAIN AND TWO ARRESTED ON ALLEGED CORRUPTION, EXTORTION, KIDNAPPING AND DEFEATING THE ENDS OF JUSTICE Three suspects including a female Police Captain were arrested on charges of corruption, defeating the ends of justice, extortion and kidnapping. The three (one female and two males) were nabbed in Witbank on Monday...

POLICE INVESTIGATES A ROBBERY AT A FILLING STATION Police are investigating an incident whereby a group of suspects staged a robbery at a fuel station in Hazyview in the early hours of today, Tuesday 10 January 2023. Information on police disposal indicates that a group of about four armed suspects who...

ATM BOMBING, CASH ROBBED AND POLICE IN PURSUIT OF SUSPECTS Nelspruit: 22 December 2022 - Police are in pursuit of suspects involved in a robbery incident that occurred in a certain fuel station at Embalenhle in the early hours of today, Thursday 22 December 2022 around 03h20 am.During the incident it is...

DUO IN COURT FOR POSSESSION OF RHINO HORNS MPUMALANGA – Junior Chauke (49) and Prince Ntsako Letswele (33) were remanded in custody by the Ermelo Magistrates’ Court on Friday, 9 December 2022 after they were arrested by the Ermelo SAPS on Thursday, 8 December 2022, following an information about a...

KIDNAPPED TRUCK DRIVER RESCUED AND TWO ALLEGED KIDNAPPERS ARRESTED Nelspruit Kidnapped - Another truck driver aged 42 who became a victim of kidnapping has been rescued today, Friday 16 December 2022 in Komatipoort. Two suspects aged 25 and 28 were nabbed. The truck driver from the country of Zimbabwe was kidnapped...

Police officer and accomplice released on bail for theft of petrol MPUMALANGA -Police Sergeant John Nene (40), and William Mahlaba (47), an employee of Dipaleng Municipality’s Infrastructure Department were released on bail by the Balfour Magistrate's Court on Monday, 21 November 2022 after they were arrested on Sunday for theft of...

SUSPECT ARRESTED FOR ROBBERY AS WELL AS FOR IMPERSONATING GAMBLING BOARD EMPLOYEE Nelspruit: 25 November 2022 - Dullstroom police successfully traced and arrested a 31-year-old male suspect in Benoni for allegedly impersonating a Gambling Board official as well as for an alleged robbery. The suspect was arrested in the early hours of...

Security guard killed whilst responding to cable theft at a sewage plant. Nelspruit: 25 November 2022 - Police at Leslie are investigating a horrific incident which reportedly occurred in the early hours of Friday, 25 November 2022 around 01h25 am. A 46-year-old security guard was brutally killed as he was...

Accused was sentenced to 11 years of direct imprisonment for fraud. MPUMALANGA - Ntombikayise Liticia Khoza (38) was found guilty and sentenced by the Middelburg Regional Court on Thursday, 10 November 2022 to a total of 11 years plus six months direct imprisonment for fraud. In April 2012, information was...