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A KwaZulu-Natal policeman has been bust for allegedly robbing two men transporting 100 boxes of body lotion to Nkandla.

Police arrested 15 suspected illegal miners and recovered 'gold-bearing dust' and tools believed to be used for illegal mining in Roodepoort on Monday.

Their 'boat' capsized in the middle of the dam and both boys drowned.

Two long-serving members of the Natal Mountain Rifles have successfully sued the ministers of defence and police for R200,000 each after they were arrested by military police at a shooting range and detained, in leg irons, for two days in police cells.

Four convicted inmates aged between 26 and 32 have been charged with running an extortion scam from prison. They would pose as police officers.

The trial of the former acting director of public prosecutions in Mpumalanga, Matric Luphondo, and the suspended head of human settlements in the province, Kebone Masange, has rolled over to Thursday.

One minute agents knew what was going on, the next ‘they were in the dark’ after the firing of former national police commissioner Khehla Sitole

The trial of the former acting director of public prosecutions in Mpumalanga, Matric Luphondo, and the suspended head of human settlements in the province, Kebone Masange, has rolled over to Thursday.

While police arrest scores of illegal miners for immigration law violations in the wake of the Krugersdorp rapes, the conversation around how to regulate the informal mining sector intensifies.

A man suspected of impersonating police minister Bheki Cele appeared in the Mooi River magistrate’s court on Thursday to face charges of fraud.