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Tobacco smuggling ring brought down By TPN/Lusa, in News · 16-07-2021 01:00:00 · 0 Comments A network of international tobacco smugglers in Portugal and Spain has been dismantled and 23 people suspected of having damaged “both countries by the sum of €4 million” have been arrested. Dubbed Operation Iberian Tobacco, the pol...

Sibusiso Amos. (Supplied) An EMPD officer has told the court how they were prevented from enforcing Level 5 lockdown regulations by an angry crowd. Security guard Siphiwe Ndlovu allegedly used an EMPD shotgun to kill Amos. Nldovu has pleaded not guilty. An Ekurhuleni metro police officer has described how he and his colleagues came under attack from an unruly crowd, during which a civilian was shot dead. On Thursday, Constable Hezekiel Matyobeni told the Gauteng High Court i...

Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay. (Getty Images) While South Africa has often played an important role in a number of pressing rights issues, the record makes clear that its engagement with international human rights law is a cause for concern, according to former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, judge  Navi Pillay. She delivered the the 15th Annual Human Rights Lecture at the Faculty of Law at Stellenbosch University on Thursday...

WATCH: Angry parents at Laerskool Theresapark carry principal out of school By James Mahlokwane Share Pretoria - The police were called to Laerskool Theresapark this morning as frustrated parents attempted to chase away the school principal for allegedly abusing other educators and running the school into financial ruin. A video taken by one of the parents shows angry parents carrying the school principal with her office chair out of the administration office before she falls off the chair. Par...

Heroin, crystal meth, and cocaine worth R5.4 million were confiscated in Vredendal earlier this week.

Police raids in CT net drugs worth more than R2m Officers raided a storage facility in the Westlake area in Cape Town on Tuesday, where they seized mandrax and tik. Detectives then proceeded to another storage site in Noordhoek, where more than 17,000 mandrax tablets were found, along with a haul of tik. Some of the drugs seized by Cape Town police in raids on 4 May 2021. Picture: @SAPoliceService/Twitter CA...

Call El Paso Sheriffs and They May Send…a Psychologist? The great, overlooked story concerning policing in America is the number of mentally ill people who are shot after their loved ones place a call to 911. Maybe you’ve heard the old saying: “When you’ve got a hammer, every problem looks like a nail”. I was researching a few years ago, trying to get some idea of the number of police shooting incidences by race of the victim. What I found was a completely unexpected problem that isn�...

Police shut down illegal Cascais party An illegal party with more than 100 people which took place in Alcabideche, in the municipality of Cascais, on 10 April, was shut down by the authorities after a noise complaint. In a statement, the Lisbon Territorial Command of GNR explains that the police operation was the result of a noise report, with the police moving “immediately to the location”, a forest area in the town of Alcabideche. “In the course of the police investigations, it was poss...

Three suspects to appear after Cape Town man shot dead in front of child By IOL Reporter Share Cape Town – Three suspects were arrested last night after a 41-year-old man was shot and killed in front of his child in his Thornton, Cape Town, residence on Monday. The trio are due to make a court appearance in the Goodwood Magistrate’s Court on a murder charge on Monday, while an additional drug charge will be heard at the Khayelitsha Magistrate’s Court, Western Cape police spokesperson Colo...

Testing.com Announces Best Free STD Testing Organizations in Dallas, TX Share Article Leading lab testing resource shares screening and treatment options for residents as the city reports higher than average rates of STDs SEATTLE (PRWEB) March 12, 2021 Testing.com, a trusted informational guide for medical lab testing and at-home screening, has published a report on the increasing STD cases and resources for addressing this issue ...