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22-year-old high school student arrested for assaulting a teacher

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More than 20 police officers arrested for alleged dodgy links to taxi industry

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Gauteng Saps probe Tshwane cops caught on camera taking bribe

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Man arrested after allegedly torching pensioner in a field

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MEC calls for united action against GBVF and child abuse in Eastern Cape

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More cocaine seized at Port of Durban in just days

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12 people shot dead, several injured at Jumpers Informal Settlement

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TMPD nab suspected dealers in Hercules KFC drug bust

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More than R50 million worth of illicit goods seized in Saps operations

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Robbers flee after shooting six-year-old boy and his parents in KZN

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Police question suspect in connection with filmed beating of elderly woman in tavern

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Five more police members arrested over Saps’ Medicare24 tender

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Fear grows after R4 rifles stolen from army base

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Free State police officer guns down three family members in murder-suicide

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Drug bust: R36m cocaine in two excavators seized at Port of Durban

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Motherwell massacre: Foreign national arrested for killing five teens

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Foreign national arrested in R2.3m tobacco smuggling crackdown

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Mpumalanga task team foils kidnap plot, nets three suspects

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Activists call for police action on farm attacks following murder in Tshwane

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KZN taxi guards arrested after viral e‑hailing attack sparks attempted murder probe

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Police killing suspects in shootouts should not be seen as ‘taking a shortcut’, says MP

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Pretoria raid nets 69‑year‑old suspect, hijacked cars and explosives

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Braamfischerville teen murder: Police arrest 19-year-old suspect

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‘Violence is not activism’: Natjoints cracks down on Xenophobic unrest

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Family disputes robbery claim in Mossel Bay teen stabbing

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Braamfischerville teen hacked to death: Police launch manhunt

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Unknown woman shot dead in Laudium field

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Romance scam exposed: Gauteng police bust four in a ritual fraud sting

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Police investigate as two Mozambican nationals and SA teen killed in Mossel Bay

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Four killed, two injured in Nyanga mass shooting

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Two armed suspects dead, one injured in shootout with KZN cops

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EMPD high-speed chase ends in suspect’s arrest and rescue of kidnapping victim