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The SA Police Service has apologised for distributing the personal information of several Krugersdorp gang-rape victims in violation of several provisions of the Protection of Personal Information Act.

Unions in the higher education and training sector have alleged that at least five of their members who are staffers at the embattled University of Fort Hare (UFH) were kidnapped, assaulted and tortured by people who identified themselves as police.

A dark cloud hung over the Motherwell Magistrate’s Court as the men and women in blue broke down, and forensic services officials darted in and out of the building where moments earlier one of their own had been shot dead.

National police have issued a public apology to the survivors of the Krugersdorp gang rape after their personal information was unlawfully published.

Continued efforts to eradicate the proliferation of illegal guns in our province, were dealt another blow when members of the Anti-Gang Unit deployed in the Mitchells Plain area to curb ongoing gang violence and attend to the tracing of wanted suspects, acted on information late yesterday afternoon and confiscated two firearms with ammunition and arrested

Acoustic detection technology able to pinpoint the location of gunshots in real-time is being installed in gang violence hotspots after a successful pilot project in Cape Town.

The body of a fisherman who drowned on Tuesday in the Tugela River was recovered on Thursday, after an intensive two-day search.

A man accused of stabbing a member of the public and shooting a court orderly dead at the Motherwell Magistrate's Court on Wednesday is fighting for his life in hospital after Anti-Gang Unit members shot him.

The plan to ‘fight fire with fire’ may backfire

Neighbours of a suspected Eastern Cape thief allegedly killed by an off-duty police station commander over the weekend say the community will be 'free from his reign of terror'.