A SAPS veterinarian signed a certificate on 28 August 2026 stating that police dog Sky could not be used in the police service without compromising her welfare. Ten days later she was found in her kennel at the SAPS Roodeplaat Veterinary Hospital with both front legs broken, and she was euthanised on 9 September. Ian…
Stefan Joel Govindraju, accused of running a network of shell companies that took R600 million out of Tembisa Hospital, was arrested by Hawks detectives at OR Tambo International Airport on 28 August 2026 as he returned from the Seychelles. His attorney says the surrender had been negotiated with prosecutors over more than 2 years and…
Customs officials and police took 334kg of cocaine off a single flight from São Paulo at OR Tambo International Airport on 25 August 2026, and no arrests have been made. On the same night, a 37-year-old man was arrested on the N2 at Riviersonderend with R11 million worth of drugs in the boot of a…
A father driving on the N7 with his children says he phoned 10111 while watching people being tied up, beaten and pushed towards a fire near the Dunoon off-ramp, and that the operator demanded a street address he could not give before ending the call. Four men were later found burnt beyond recognition in that…
A Johannesburg High Court judgment delivered on 28 July 2026 has become the centre of a political fight over DA federal finance chairperson Mark Burke, whose family company Kastelo is under investigation by the South African Reserve Bank for suspected exchange control contraventions. The figure being quoted everywhere is R4 billion, but that is not…
A week after Cornelius van Dalen was shot dead by police in a standoff on a farm near Robertson, farm owner Karl Smith has provided additional detail on the WhatsApp exchange, notebook and preparations found after Van Dalen’s death, while a separate group has held a public tribute calling him a hero killed for exposing…
The Hawks shut down a suspected crystal meth laboratory on a farm outside Musina late on Thursday, 20 August 2026. Drugs and equipment worth an estimated R600 million were seized, and 5 people were arrested. However, every one of the 5 is a foreign national, and no South African is in custody. The accused appear…
Cornelius van Dalen, a 40-year-old farmer near Robertson, died on 17 August 2026 after a standoff with the SAPS Special Task Force that began on Sunday, 16 August. Before he died, he posted online that corrupt police working for a drug cartel had come to kill him. The SAPS says the standoff started when he…
Eleven people were shot dead in 3 separate shootings in Langa, Khayelitsha and Gugulethu on the night of 8 August 2026 and the early hours of 9 August. Provincial Serious Violent Crimes detectives have taken over all 3 investigations and no arrests have been made. Police have appealed to the public for information, but there…
Two Anti-Gang Unit officers and two women were shot dead in an ambush in Reiger Park on the evening of 7 August 2026. Almost every report carried the ambush and buried a single paragraph explaining that 11 days earlier, the same unit arrested a suspect in the same township who walked free because his case…
