A 35-year-old man is facing a murder charge for the death of his 67-year-old mother-in-law in Atlantis, following a brutal attack allegedly carried out with an axe. According to Western Cape police, the incident took place in the early hours of 26 January at Pearl Mansion in Avondale. “This office hereby confirms that Atlantis SAPS has opened a murder case on Monday, 26 January at 01:20 against a 35-year-old male suspect
A Spanish national has been convicted in the Vredendal Regional Court for the illegal possession and importation of protected reptile species from the Northern Cape into the Western Cape. On Thursday, 41-year-old David Navarro Roman was found guilty on three charges related to the unlawful possession of 22 Armadillo Girdled Lizards and one Speckled Dwarf Tortoise. According to CapeNature, the charges include two contraventions of the Western Cape Nature Conservation Ordinance 19
A 56-year-old man is set to appear before the Mookgophong Magistrate’s Court in Limpopo today following his arrest on Wednesday. The South African Police Service (SAPS) says they received a tip-off about a vehicle allegedly transporting illicit cigarettes from Musina to the Gauteng Province. “Acting swiftly on the intelligence, the operational team intercepted the identified vehicle along the R516 road in the Tuinplaas policing area.” SAPS confirmed that 36 master boxes
The Rethink Your Drink campaign has welcomed President Cyril Ramaphosa’s call for stronger alcohol regulations in his State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Thursday evening. The President linked excessive alcohol use to child stunting, violence, crime, and road accidents, and proposed measures to address the scourge. “We call on provincial governments to strengthen the regulation of alcohol by limiting the density of liquor outlets, restricting trading hours and ending the sale
Scores of people across several communities in the Overstrand region gathered in protest on Thursday to highlight their grievances over service delivery and other concerns at their respective municipal offices. Residents in Kleinmond, Gansbaai, Stanford and Hermanus marched to municipal offices as part of what has been described as a five-day protest set to conclude on Monday. The Overstrand Municipality recorded around 600 protesters in Gansbaai alone, with further demonstrations taking place simultaneously
