Heinous, callous and brutal. This is what a judge remarked as he handed a life sentence to a 22-year-old killer named Tinashe Siyanota from Pretoria who murdered his former employer, who was a gay man. On Tuesday, the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria handed Tinashe Siyanota the maximum sentence for the 2021 murder of Christopher…
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…
Durban — An investigating officer told the Durban High Court on Thursday that the getaway vehicle allegedly used by the accused to drive to kill taxi boss Dustin Pillay in September 2019, in Shakaskraal, was wiped of fingerprints. He said the vehicle, a white Jeep with a GP number plate, was stolen in Gauteng during…
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…
Durban — A 27-year-old woman employee from the National Public Service Workers’ Union (UNPSWU) has been fired for “reporting” her alleged sexual assault by a senior leader of the union. The leader forms part of the top-three structure which is the president, vice-president and national treasurer. The woman was a personal assistant to the secretary-general…
