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Initially, former rugby player Zane Kilian was the sole accused arrested shortly after the murder of Kinnear on 18 September 2020. On Friday, 14 May, Modack, appearing in the Blue Downs regional court, was added to the charge sheet. Modack will now appear alongside Kilian, Jacques Cronje, Ricardo Anthony Morgan, Janick Adonis, Amaal Jantjies and Ashley Tabisher in a consolidated indictment handed to the court.   The indictment consists of 62 charges and is a combined summary of incidents rela...

Melinda Stuurman The bail application of the woman co-accused in a hand grenade plot against Charl Kinnear was delayed.   A new affidavit, supposed to have been submitted during Amaal Jantjies application, was found to not have been commissioned properly.   The matter was adjourned, in order for it to be fixed. The bail application of the woman accused of being part of a hand grenade plot against Anti-Gang Unit detective, Charl Kinnear, hit a snag in the Parow Regional Court on Tuesday.  ...

Nafiz Modack returned to court on Monday in preparation for a mega bail application.  In the Bishop Lavis leg of the court case, Modack is alleged to have corrupted an Anti-Gang Unit member for inside information on raids.  The matters will be consolidated into one big application in Blue Downs on 14 May.  Suspected Cape Town underworld figure Nafiz Modack returned to the Bishop Lavis Magistrates Court on Monday in the latest appearance for the numerous criminal cases he now faces.  SEE | ...

COP: MY DAUGHTER WAS KILLED LIKE A DOG! Buziwe Nocuze Nambitha Ncoyini, Sesuthus aunt, with Sesethus mother, Nomlindo Sithole. Photo by Lindile Mbontsi. CONSTABLE Mfowabo Sithole’s daughter was brutally murdered in Malibu Village, Blue Downs, in Cape Town. Sithole told Daily Sun he believes cops failed his daughter. “As cops, we failed my daughter because neighbours reported the incident while my daughter was being attacked by her boyfriend,”...

The quick reaction and vigilance of members attached to the K9 Unit stopped two robbers in their tracks in Pinelands yesterday. Unaware of police presence in the area of Sunrise Circle, two suspects robbed a cellular telephone and made an attempt to flee, but their luck ran out and they were both arrested. Both suspects aged 28 and 34 are expected to make their court appearance in Goodwood on Monday. In an unrelated event, yesterday afternoon members of the Provincial Integrated Team reacted on...

Globally, most countries are still grappling with food insecurity. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, about 690 million people did not have enough to eat in 2019.By December 2020, more than 250 million people in Africa were faced with severe food insecurity.

A 32-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the murders of two Cape Town police officers who were on patrol at the weekend.

The freedom of an armed suspect was short-lived this afternoon after the vigilance of an off-duty member of the Provincial Integrated Team led to his arrest. The detective who was returning from a church service in Wallacedene spotted a suspicious individual with a firearm and called for backup from his colleagues attached to the Kraaifontein […]

An ex-Springbok rugby player. The notorious 27s gang. The assassination of an international steroid dealer. The three may seem totally unrelated, but court cases taking shape and set to play out in Cape Town are exposing suspected links between them and just how far the reach of organised crime — as the State alleges — stretches. In the latest developing case, Jerome “Donkie” Booysen was arrested on Thursday, 18 February, along with five other men. One of the five is Clinton Langeveldt,...

January 19, 2021 The Condra 4-ton, 14,7-metre span double-girder electric overhead travelling crane already installed at Zandvliet Wastewater Treatment Works. BB Cranes, the Cape Town-based lifting equipment manufacturer, is to deliver two 4‑ton, 5‑metre‑span underslung cranes to Zandvliet Wastewater Treatment Works. To be installed in new upper and lower screw-pump stations that will form part of the plant’s expansion, both machines have been ergonomically designed to facilitate manual...