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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 police action took place between 7 and 12 July and resulted in the “arrest of 16 men and one woman, a...
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 in Johannesburg that he was present when Sibusiso Amos was fatally wounded on 29 March 2020 in Vosloo...
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 night. Here is her speech. In January 1995, I assumed my post outside the country as a judge on the...
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. Parents are still outside waiting for officials from the Intervention Unit of the Department of Educati...
Heroin, crystal meth, and cocaine worth R5.4 million were confiscated in Vredendal earlier this week.