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Limpopo couple arrested after alleged kidnapping hoax to extort worried husband

Child Protection Week: Growing calls for tougher sentences for child abuse offenders

WhatsApp group linked to July 2021 unrest lands four in court

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Gauteng Traffic Police and Home Affairs immigration officers arrested for kidnapping and theft

Police condemn Westbury community for attack on Anti-Gang Unit [VIDEO]

Boy shot dead in Westbury as ‘gang members roam freely’

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Grief claims grandfather after granddaughter’s burial

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Police close to breakthrough in IFP deputy chief whip’s ‘assassination’

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Police rope in specialised team to probe murder of 14-year-old Lukhona Fose

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Two killed, one injured in Barberton tavern shooting

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Family believes 14-year-old Likhona Fose was killed in suspected homophobic attack

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WATCH: Police investigating after teenage girl’s mutilated body found in Roodepoort

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Truck driver found twenty times over the legal alcohol limit in KZN

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Fezile Ngubane is a victim, not suspect in kidnapping case, says Saps

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R8 million worth of dagga from Eswatini seized

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‘Gruesome discovery’: Missing teen girl found dead inside shack as stepfather linked to murder

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Remains of missing toddler Kutlwano Shalaba found in shallow grave

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Police officers charged with serious crimes remain on active duty

WATCH: How Olorato Mongale murder suspect ‘confessed’ [VIDEO]

Joshlin joins long list of missing girls in South Africa

Rescue of human trafficking victims reveals SA crisis

Laerskool Dalmondeor staff member arrested for alleged sexual assault of grade 2 pupil

Main suspect in murder of Olorato Mongale shot dead in KZN

Olorato Mongale: Suspect’s parents arrested for aiding escape in murder case

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Olorato’s alleged killers out on bail and on the run, as hundreds of women come forward

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1 police vehicle and 30 officers sharing 4 cellphones: Cape Town’s crime struggle

WATCH: The moment Joshlin Smith’s mother was sentenced to life in prison

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Olorato Mongale: Family reels as only child is violently ripped from her mother

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Gauteng man arrested for illegal initiation school and taking in children

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Big development in search for Olorato Mongale’s killers

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Hawks arrest four in learner’s and driver’s licence fraud scheme in Limpopo

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Free State police probe murder after burning body found in bush