Pupil safety in the Western Cape is under threat with gang violence, alcohol and drug abuse playing a major role at schools. Briefing the Western Cape legislature’s standing committee on education on Tuesday, lobby group Equal Education (EE) told members about the challenges facing pupils. The EE said it had conducted a survey at 40 Cape…
Life at an alleged brothel in Milnerton, Cape Town, for a newly arrived Cameroonian bricklayer was one long party with a steady stream of girlfriends, according to his testimony in a sex trafficking trial in the Western Cape High Court on Tuesday. Yannick Ayuk, who pleaded not guilty to all the charges against him, told…
The State has rejected the plea and sentence agreement proposal of sex assault accused Willem Breytenbach – but he has been given an opportunity to submit a second one. Breytenbach was arrested in 2019 after podcaster Deon Wiggett alleged in the true-crime podcast series, My Only Story, that Breytenbach had sexually assaulted him. Wiggett’s story…
Three men caught transporting a stolen railway track worth R3 million have been arrested. Mpumalanga police spokesperson Brigadier Selvy Mohlala said the provincial Anti-Gang Unit and Middleburg highway patrol stopped a suspicious truck on the N4 in Middleburg and arrested three men, aged between 41 and 51, for possession of stolen goods. Mohlala added the…
Police in the Eastern Cape are investigating a double murder after two people were gunned down on Friday morning, following a house robbery at a frail care centre in Bluewater Bay. Provincial police spokesperson, Colonel Priscilla Naidu said detectives attached to the Swartkops police station are probing the matter. At about 3am, the lounge window of the…
