A 30-year-old off-duty paramedic was shot and killed by a group of gunmen on Thursday outside Edenvale Hospital.
Police Minister Bheki Cele revealed that there have been 2000 kidnapping cases reported to the police between July to September 2021.
The 11-year-old schoolgirl kidnapped in front of E.P. Baumann Primary School in Mayfair in Johannesburg is still missing.
Paramedics said a foetus wrapped in a blood-stained blanket was found dumped in a rubbish bin by a homeless man in Durban.
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Police said four of nine escapees were caught and re-arrested at Myra village in Taung on Thursday. Five others are still at large.
Liquor outlets like taverns are the third most likely place to be killed in South Africa according to the latest police crime statistics.
Police said the estranged husband of the murdered, Vicki Terblanche (42), was arrested on Wednesday evening.
It is believed another two children have reportedly died in Mpumalanga last week after allegedly eating a packet of noodles before school.
The kidnapped girl is reportedly the daughter of wealthy foreign nationals who own a hotel and several other businesses in the area.
Paramedics were called to the banks of the Umgeni River after a pedestrian made a gruesome discovery on Tuesday.
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The 11-year-old girl was kidnapped outside the school at gunpoint while waiting in line to be sanitized and screened.
According to crime watchers, four men in a getaway silver Toyota Yaris allegedly kidnapped a primary schoolgirl in Mayfair, Johannesburg.
A convicted rapist has been re-elected as mayor and a fraudster as his deputy of Kannaland in the Western Cape.
The family of the man who was shot by a police officer during an altercation in Muldersdrift has opened a case of attempted murder.
A taxi boss was brutally gunned down and then two bus drivers were shot and killed in the latest spate of taxi violence in KZN.
The father shot by a police officer during an altercation at a lodge in Muldersdrift was in stable condition on Tuesday but still in a coma.
A father of two is currently fighting for his life after he was shot in the head following an altercation at a lodge in Muldersdrift.
Sick and poverty-stricken women were brought into the church to be assisted, but instead, they were sexually assaulted.
Paramedics said a woman believed to be involved in a robbery at a jewellery store in Benoni was shot and killed on Sunday.
Police said an alleged hijacker was shot and injured during a shoot-out with police on Saturday in Gqeberha.
Two security officers sustained multiple gunshot wounds when their cash transit vehicle bombed in a heist in Kempton Park on Saturday.
Police said a 24-year-old man was arrested after human body parts were discovered in a house in Protea Glen in Soweto on Saturday.
MEC for Human Settlements in Mpumalanga Speedy Mashilo was hijacked, abducted for eight hours, and robbed of R25k cash and rifle on Thursday.