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The NPA plays a vital role in maintaining the order of society and withholding resources to a much-needed organ of the state is a slippery slope to anarchy.

Former employees of the Tshwane department of human settlements appeared in the Johannesburg specialised commercial crimes court sitting in Palm Ridge to face charges of corruption and money-laundering.

The mystery of the missing tyres from a Nelson Mandela Bay storage depot has unravelled what a senior official has termed a syndicate targeting vehicle components that is hampering the city’s ability to provide some services.

Abalone and equipment worth R1.2m were seized while being offloaded in the Eastern Cape at the weekend.

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Abalone and equipment worth R1.2m were seized while being offloaded in the Eastern Cape at the weekend.

Two senior officials from the office of Eastern Cape premier Oscar Mabuyane and one from the education department were among eight arrested by the Hawks on Monday on allegations of fraud and money laundering pertaining to a R20m tender.

Two men who allegedly sold valves to Tutuka power station that were stolen from Arnot power station appeared in court on Wednesday.

The matter is currently before the Bela Bela Magistrates Court in Limpopo.

Police have issued an arrest warrant for alleged holiday swindler Francois Swart, whose Fourways-based travel agency Priority Escapes stands accused of being paid millions for Maldives package holidays which it failed to book.