20+ hour, 54+ min ago   (190+ words) Ermelo – Eight people, including two minors, were killed in a head-on collision between a Toyota and Volkswagen sedan on the N17 toll road between Ermelo and Davel in Mpumalanga early on Sunday morning. The crash happened near the Ermelo Toll Plaza…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (268+ words) Bangkok – A police officer shot dead his teacher wife at the kindergarten where she worked in Thailand on Wednesday but all the children are safe, officials said. The gunman returned home after the shooting in Chonburi province, southeast of Bangkok,…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (261+ words) Johannesburg – A 45-year-old man wanted in the UK over the deaths of his wife and two daughters has pleaded guilty to charges of unlawfully possessing a firearm and ammunition in South Africa. Ndodana Mkhanyisi Tshuma appeared in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (163+ words) Johannesburg – A 53-year-old scholar transport driver was shot and killed in Westbury, Johannesburg, shortly after dropping off school pupils on Monday morning. Gauteng police said the shooting happened at about 8.10am after the driver had dropped off the children and was…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago   (164+ words) Durban – A R50 000 reward has been announced for information that could help locate former helicopter pilot Slade Thomas, who has been missing from his Durban home. Thomas, who reportedly lives with Alzheimer’s disease, disappeared while out walking in the Umgeni Park…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (710+ words) Cape Town – “I miss Mom and Dad.” Those heartbreaking words from the young daughter of murdered couple Lucky and Sabeliwe Mogashoa captured the devastating impact of the crime, even as their killers were sentenced to spend the rest of their…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (564+ words) The trial of convicted rapist and murderer Thabo Bester and his co-accused has been postponed to April 2027. This is nearly five years after his prison escape and four years after he was rearrested. Bester is charged with escaping from Mangaung…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (738+ words) Boksburg – A 23-year-old man accused of killing two Gauteng Anti-Gang Unit officers and two women in Reiger Park, Ekurhuleni, has told the Boksburg Magistrate’s Court that police allegedly tortured him and forced him to confess. Reagan Cheslin Collis, who faces…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (586+ words) “I don’t know what to say about the police … They failed us so much,” Jane Douglas from Atlantis, who lost two of her sons to gang violence, told Parliament’s police portfolio committee on Wednesday. The summit on gang-related violence marks…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (227+ words) Gusau – Suspected jihadists in northwest Nigeria killed around 30 people during Friday Islamic prayers last week, local sources have told AFP, the latest attack to hit restive Sokoto state. Africa’s most populous country is battling multiple security crises across its north,…...