The Minister of Police, Professor Firoz Cachalia, met with Premier Alan Winde, Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis, Safety MEC Anroux Marais and MMC JP Smith in Cape Town on Thursday to discuss the current crime spike in the province and to explore ways to strengthen intergovernmental cooperation in addressing it. During the meeting, Cachalia reaffirmed the importance of the Cooperation Agreement that was entered into by the South African Police Service (SAPS), the Civilian Secretariat
The Western Cape High Court has ruled it unlawful that SAPS raided the offices of Cape Town’s Safety and Security chief, JP Smith. His office, along with that of Mayoral Committee Member for Energy, Xanthea Limberg, was searched by the police’s Commercial Crimes Unit in January as part of a probe into housing tender fraud. ALSO READ: JP Smith takes SAPS to court over office raid Smith has long
Three people have been sentenced in the Plettenberg Bay Regional Court for their involvement in human trafficking and operating a brothel in George. Patience Precious Abudu (35), Success Egabor (42) and Nontobeko Mathunjwa (36) were arrested following a joint operation by the Hawks’ Economic Protected Resources team and the Department of Home Affairs, which took place between December 2023 and May 2024. This follows the rescue of two young girls on 16
The Hawks in KwaZulu-Natal have uncovered a major dagga cultivation operation in Camperdown, seizing plants, dagga and equipment to the value of R30 million. Hawks members from Port Shepstone Serious Organised Crime Investigation working together with Counter Narcotics and Durban Metro Police Drug Team also arrested a 56-year-old man. They acted on information about a farm that was cultivating cannabis in Camperdown. A disruptive operation was conducted on Thursday, 11 September,
Who was Charlie Kirk? The activist who turned campus politics into national influence
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Stephanie A. (Sam) Martin, Boise State University The fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk during a speaking engagement at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10, 2025, has drawn widespread condemnation and renewed attention to the climate of political violence in the United States. To many, Kirk was not just another partisan commentator. He was one of the most visible leaders of the young conservative movement. Kirk helped shape Republican politics on
