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Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe, the late former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe’s son, was arrested for attempted murder on Thursday after a shooting at his Hyde Park residence

Organised Crime Index 2025: South Africa a continental hotspot for criminal networks

Human trafficking, cybercrime, drug routes and wildlife poaching are surging as South Africa becomes a regional crime hub

Kelly Smith, the mother of Joslin Smith.

Joslin Smith was wanted by sangoma for her ‘eyes and skin’

State witness Lourentia Lombaard continued her testimony on Monday, sharing chilling details in the kidnapping and human trafficking trial

In court: Missing Joslin Smith’s mother Kelly Smith at the trial

Kelly Smith’s shifting stories fuel speculation in child trafficking case

The Joslin Smith trial reveals a tangled narrative of addiction, abuse and contradictions, as questions arise about her role in the child’s disappearance

Kelly Smith, mother of missing girl Joslin Smith, takes notes during the trial on Tuesday.

Kelly Smith told teacher Joslin was kidnapped by Nigerians

A ‘Nigerian man’ allegedly told Smith that the child was in a container, on a boat, heading for West Africa, the court heard

Kelly Smith, mother of missing girl Joslin Smith, takes notes during the trial on Tuesday.

Kelly Smith threatened to stab her son in 2016, social worker tells court

Siliziwe Mbambo also said that according to the case file, the mother of Joshlin Smith threatened to assault her own grandmother

Kelly Smith takes notes during the kidnapping and human trafficking trial on Thursday.

Kelly Smith brought to tears during former employer’s testimony

The mother of Joslin wept as her former employer, Carlyn Zeegers, described her as a ‘good mother’ in the kidnapping and human trafficking trial

DA uMngeni chief whip, Nhlalayenza Ndlovu. (Supplied)

AfriForum private prosecution unit says family of slain DA leader ‘extremely fearful’

In December, it will be a year since Nhlalayenza Ndlovu was gunned down in front of his wife and children

Calvin Cloete has prior convictions for malicious damage to property and assault. (Photo supplied)

27s gang member sentenced to life for rape, murder of ex-girlfriend on 21st birthday

Calvin Cloete hacked Carmen Gouws to death with an axe and stomped on her back with such force that he left shoe imprints

The 29th of September 2024, when 18 lives were taken in Lusikisiki, is the latest chapter in a heartbreaking and relentless story of violence. Photo: SAPS

Death toll rises to 18 after Lusikisiki mass shootings as police hunt gunmen

Four women, one man and a two-month-old baby survived the shootings, which took place in the same street

Lensman: Durban Metro Police Commissioner Sibonelo Mchunu says crime fighting will be boosted when his department takes over the city’s CCTV network from disaster management. Photo: Des Erasmus

Internal conflict stalls Durban metro police takeover of eThekwini’s lucrative CCTV network

Metro police head Sibonelo Mchunu is ready for his staff to man the network, but sources say the R100 million a year installation and maintenance contracts are too sweet to let go

Most of us don’t have a clue what all the regulations and municipal by-laws are in the first place, so we walk around perpetually dazed and revert to obeying simpler, smaller rules to make ourselves feel virtuous. (M&G)

All laws are not equal

South Africa is not in a position to pick peripheral battles because we don’t dare to fight the real ones