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Three prison warders are currently receiving treatment after being stabbed by two inmates on Wednesday morning.The incident happened at St Albans Correctional Centre in the Eastern Cape.
"As the department, we would like to wish our officials a speedy recovery," said Nxumalo, adding that they were assisting the warders with the necessary support.Firefighters from the Cape Winelands District Municipality are battling a fire burning"out of control" in the direction of Villiersdorp. The bodies of two women were found in an open veld in Matholesville, Roodepoort, Gauteng police said.
The driver"sneaked away under the pretence that he would get hold of the truck owner", according to police spokesperson Brigadier Selvy Mohlala.Mohlala said the contraband has an estimated value of R29.3 million.They have made no arrests, but are"doing their best" to locate the driver and truck owner, Mohlala said.
The two people were stopped on the R69 Vryheid Road and police found them in possession of two firearms, with the serial numbers filed off, and ammunition. They will appear in court soon.Man to appear in court for allegedly strangling brother to death during argument President Cyril Ramaphosa’s lawyer has confirmed he will seek to challenge the section 89 panel report that disbelieved his account of the Phala-Phala break-in in the Constitutional Court.
The Johannesburg EMS team will continue their search on Sunday for 15 people who are alleged to have been swept away at the Jukskei river on Saturday evening. "[We] arrived on scene to find total chaos as a vehicle crashed through the shop front injuring multiple employees. Immediately more ambulances were dispatched with Advanced Life Support units," said ALS Paramedics spokesperson Garrith Jamieson.
"The information was operationalised and the team observed as the identified 8 ton truck with false registration plates and branding entered Swissport," said Mogale.Sanlam administrator who stole R6 million in investors’ pensions gets 15-year jail term "At this stage, there is no further information on what the threat may have been or where it emerged from. However, it did cause panic among our Boksburg schools," education department spokesperson Steve Mabona said.
Cape Town motorists entering the city centre face major delays after a police vehicle overturned on Hospital Bend on Friday morning. A Northern Cape municipal cashier has appeared in court facing 20 counts of fraud. On Thursday, the Hawks arrested Nomava Luwalala, 44, an employee of Emthanjeni Municipality, at work.
Carletonville police arrested eight people, aged between 22 and 48, who were allegedly en route to bomb an ATM in West Rand. The 26-year-old constable was shot in Blackbird Avenue, Grassy Park, while he and a colleague were responding to reports of an armed suspected in the area. Walus was stabbed by a fellow inmate at Kgosi Mampuru prison in Pretoria on Tuesday. He is receiving treatment in prison.
A 70-year-old Soweto pensioner is expected to appear in court on Friday for a bail application concerning the murder of his 17-year-old grandson. Presidency spokesperson Vincent Magwenya has told 702's Mandy Wiener that the president will address the nation on the Phala Phala matter. He said an announcement was"imminent" although there was no time given. Ramaphosa wants to give the country"a clear sense of direction" on the way forward after the release of the Phala Phala report, Magwenya said. He called this"an extraordinary time for our constitutional democracy".
Last week, Chief Justice Raymond Zondo handed down an order in the Constitutional Court to release Walus on parole within 10 days. He added that efforts by paramedics were unsuccessful, and the two young girls were sadly declared dead on the scene."Lieutenant General Siphesihle Nkosi has been appointed as the deputy national head of the Hawks crime-fighting unit.
The woman was struck by a stay bullet while walking out of her house on Monday. She was taken to hospital and is in a stable condition, said Gauteng police spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Mavela Masondo.
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