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KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi raised the alarm over an exodus of special force members of the police, including members of the tactical National Intervention Unit, who are leaving the service “‘on a daily basis”.

A pamphlet with safety tips for tourists meant to be handed out to them as they hit Nelson Mandela Bay’s shores could instead be just the thing that lands them in dangerous situations.

Eastern Cape coastal municipalities are gearing up for the festive season ahead of an expected huge influx of holidaymakers. Buffalo City Metro spokesperson Samkelo Ngwenya said the metro expected more than two million visitors and the city’s safety and security plans were already kicking in. “BCM puts plans in place before the festive season to prepare and manage the influx of public to the various beaches, amenities and events,” he said.

South Africa’s elite Special Task Force (STF) members are leaving in droves to join private security companies where they can earn up to three times their salaries, often as protectors for high-risk businessmen and taxi bosses.

Over 170 legal practitioners have been struck off the roll and barred from practising in the past three years for acts of misconduct, some of which are linked to Road Accident Fund (RAF) claims.

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.

Police seized solar panels in Crown Mines, Johannesburg, on Thursday, making two arrests.

Police minister Bheki Cele’s trip with his executive assistant to the Rugby World Cup final in France, on which SAPS spent nearly R500,000, has sparked debate about whether it was wasteful expenditure.

Thabsie Mabezane, a transgender woman and LGBTQIA+ activist, was aware of personal safety when she met a man on the dating app Tinder earlier this year.

In a quest to find closure after the brutal murder of Noluvuyo Nonkwe-Ndema, strangled in 2019 by her abusive husband Yibanathi Ndema, who then buried the body under the bath in their bathroom, her siblings have recorded a song in her memory.