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Ekurhuleni killings: Police warn public not to circulate fake suspect photos

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Police probe GBV and mob justice after viral Bloemfontein attack [VIDEOS]

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Police launch manhunt after officers gunned down in Eastern Cape

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Ninth body of woman found in Dawn Park, Ekurhuleni

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Feared West Gang suspect killed in Inanda shootout with police

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Ekurhuleni murders: DA offers R500k reward as criminologist says killings fit serial killer pattern

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Hawks arrest suspect in R45m Mogalakwena tender fraud probe

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Eighth woman’s body found in Ekurhuleni as R400 000 reward offered

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Woman kidnapped and raped in Kempton Park after calling Uber – no positive link to murders

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Domestic violence suspected after 4 people die in separate North West incidents

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Free State man gets life for murdering girlfriend after threatening to kill her husband

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Police seize millions of rands worth of drugs in nationwide crackdown

News

Three suspects nabbed after R307k robbery in Mokopane

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Cigarette, one rand and drugs: Dispute over R1 ends in murder, man sentenced to 12 years

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Stabbing of police officer over family feud ends in 22-year jail sentence

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Elephants trample poacher in Kruger National Park illegal incursion

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Police seize R9m in fake goods, including Springboks gear, in Gauteng raid

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Kempton Park serial killer fears: Saps warns women after four bodies found

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High‑speed chase ends in R2 million dagga bust on N4

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‘Cash-for-driver’s licence’ scheme uncovered at Limpopo testing centre, four arrested [PICS]

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Free State police arrest rape suspect after five years on the run

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Free State man sentenced for murdering girlfriend and 18-month-old

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Hawks and Interpol to hand over six Nigerian ‘love scammers’ to FBI in Cape Town

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‘He didn’t escape on his own’: Who let Rooigrond prisoner loose?

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Be careful on FB Marketplace: Thieves get life imprisonment for robbery gone wrong

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Trio arrested after foreign national found dead near Fouriesburg

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WATCH: Two foreign nationals arrested in multimillion-rand mandrax lab bust in Erasmia

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R200 000 reward offered after fatal Mamelodi cash-in-transit robbery

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Police arrest suspect wanted for murder conspiracy allegedly linked to DJ Warras’ killing

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Hawks nab nine suspects in R23 million illegal precious metals bust in Greenstone [PICS]

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Two suspected armed robbers die in crash after holding up Limpopo petrol station

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Laudium residents demand police oust drug dealers near station and nursery