The following crimes were attended to by Umhlali SAPS over the weekend:

•  Ducks, a tractor battery and two brush-cutters were stolen were stolen from a farm on Salt Rock Road on Sunday evening.
•  On Sunday evening a woman was assaulted by another woman while walking home near Shayamoya Town Hall.
•  On Saturday night a shop in Shakashead was burgled.
•  Chubb responded to a house break-in on Hugh Dent Road in Salt Rock on Saturday night. Burglars had broken into the lounge and took off with a number of items.
•  On Friday a 12-year-old girl was raped in Driefontein.
•  Electronics were stolen from a house in Shakashead on Friday night.
•  A man who was stabbed at the Driefontein taxi rank last week opened a late reported case on Friday afternoon. He claimed a group of people had attacked him.
•  Police found a man dead on the railway tracks near Shavins Store in Etete. He was found on the tracks with a large wound to his chest. A case of murder has been opened.
•  A laptop was stolen out of the reception of a business on Garlicke Drive on Friday morning.

Umhlali SAPS arrested three people for selling liquor without a license, 14 people for possession of marijuana, five for drinking in public and one person was arrested for driving over the speed limit.