Women-led gangs are ‘prevalent in the Western Cape’: Cape Town – After three women were arrested on Monday for possession of drugs and firearms, alarm bells were triggered about the prevalence of women leading gang-related crimes in Cape Town. In the first incident, two women suspects aged 28 and 43 were arrested in Ravensmead, after they were found with two pistols, 13 rounds of ammunition, 1208 mandrax, and close to 1kg of…
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Robber objects to ‘shockingly high’ 45-year jail term: Pretoria – A man who was part of a gang which targeted Pep stores around Pretoria asked the court to grant him leave to appeal his 45-year-jail sentence, which he felt was shockingly high. James Rametsi was the man who stood guard at the door during two of the robberies in the Pretoria CBD. He, however, said he was innocent and that it was a case of mistaken identity. He tried to use his mother’s “appointment” with a doctor during the time…
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No cooked meals for Westville prisoners as boilers break down: Durban – Boilers at Westville Prison have been broken for about four weeks leaving prison officials scrambling for alternative means to provide cooked meals for inmates. An inmate tipped the Daily News off to what he termed the “violation of the prisoner’s constitutional right” to basic needs. “Since the boilers broke down about a month ago, we have been surviving on two…
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Surge in robbers targeting pupils to and from school: Cape Town – A spate of robberies carried out on schoolchildren in Wynberg has prompted urgent talks on learner safety. Yesterday, a pupil at Douglas Road Primary School was robbed of a cellphone at knifepoint while walking along Shiplake Road. A few hours later, another learner was reportedly robbed at…
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Pretoria school mourns star pupil after ‘suicide’: Pretoria – The motto for Afrikaans Hoër Seunskool, or Affies, is “Laat Daar Lig Wees” (Let there be light). However, darkness and gloom is in the air after one of the school’s star learners allegedly took his life on Monday afternoon. While the details of the tragedy have been withheld, it is understood that Ian Visser, a Grade 12 learner, committed suicide at his home. A disturbing silence hung over the foyer where a striking…
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KZN Health redeploys employees after tender documents are leaked: Durban – About 30 employees from the acquisition unit of the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) health department have been redeployed to other posts allegedly because of illegally leaked tender documents. The Daily News learnt that these were from the Technical Evaluating Committee and contained a list of names of service providers whose applications were being considered for forwarding to the Bid Evaluations Committee. A well-placed source said the service providers were…
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Man serving life for ‘demonic’ murder of woman, 19, seeks freedom: Pretoria – A Kuils River man who, during his murder trial in 2002, told a church friend that “something demonic” drove him to rape and kill a 19-year-old woman, has turned to the Gauteng High Court, Pretoria, in a bid to be freed from jail. Christopher van Ster is serving a life sentence at the Kgosi Mampuru 11 Correctional Centre. Since he was sentenced in September 2002 to life, he said he was entitled to be freed…
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Shipping containers used to store bodies as high murder rate delays post-mortems: Cape Town – Bodies riddled with so many bullets that it takes pathologists quadruple the time to do an autopsy is one of the contributing factors as to why morgues are struggling with storage space. They are struggling so much that shipping containers are being used as body refrigerators. Forensic pathology regional manager Kevin Jones said an upsurge in violent deaths, especially people killed by guns, has resulted in a space-constraint crisis. “It’s like a whole magazine is emptied on one…
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Public Protector to probe Kieswetter’s Sars appointment, staff matters: The office of the Public Protector has confirmed it has taken on two more investigations related to the South African Revenue Service, including an investigation into the appointment of new commissioner Edward Kieswetter. ……
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MKMVA: Expel Hanekom from ANC if EFF claims true: Earlier this week, EFF leader Julius Malema claimed that Derek Hanekom fed them with information about which ANC Members of Parliament would vote against former President Jacob Zuma in a motion of no confidence. ……
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