Fourways Review – 6 June 2017 JOBURG – South African taxpayers foot the bill of R845 million per annum for foreigners in SA prisons. There are about 6 440 sentenced foreign nationals in South African prisons, serving an average of 10.6 years for various crimes they committed in this country. The South African taxpayer is…
Hope for SA prisoners serving time abroad News | 21 May 2017, 3:10pm Nkululeko Nene DURBAN – There seems to be a glimmer of hope for South African prisoners serving jail time abroad who want to return home to complete their sentences. A high-level delegation from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) will gather in…
2017-05-03 17:28 Caryn Dolley, News24 Cape Town – Claims that nearly two decades ago the African National Congress (ANC) was in such financial difficulty that it planned to sell drugs to fund its 1999 election campaign were revealed in the Western Cape High Court on Wednesday. This allegation was contained in a statement made by…
Crime & Courts | 10 March 2017 SE-ANNE RALL Durban – South Africa is the largest market for illicit drugs in sub-Saharan Africa, with the trafficking and use of drugs on an upward trajectory. This is according to the US State Department 2017 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report released earlier this month. It reveals that…
Llewellyn Prince, Media 24 Parliamentary Bureau 2017-03-16 06:10 Nearly R60 billion left South Africa illicitly in the 2015-2016 financial year, and it appears that the country has no strategy to curb the problem. Murray Michell, director of the Financial Intelligence Centre, told a sitting of Parliament that about 9 million suspected transactions were reported to…
LowVelder Tereasa Dias – 3 March 2017 Mexican drug cartels are one of the largest which move heroin. They have infiltrated Cape Town, Johannesburg and Bloemfontein. CDA statistics estimate that of every R5 used in the country, one is linked to the drug trade. Police working on drug crimes said they get at least one…
Special Assignment, 18 February 2017 – The Last Run
Xolani Koyana | 16 Feb 2017 CAPE TOWN – The Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) is working with the Airports Company to curb an alleged drug smuggling scheme by police and Hawks members at OR Tambo International Airport. Ipid told Parliament’s police committee of a ‘war’ between the police and the Hawks over an alleged…
2017-02-15 19:24 Thulani Gqirana, News24 Cape Town – A police officer committed suicide by shooting himself in the head, twice, and the Hawks and SAPS were engaged in a war over confiscated drugs, police watchdog IPID told MPs on Wednesday. These were among the “appalling” issues that came to light during the IPID’s investigation of…
Tuesday, November 29, 2016 Pretoria – The murder of Warrant Officer Colbern Mashego, a Hawks member who was gunned down on Sunday, has been strongly condemned by the National Head of the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation Lieutenant General Mthandazo Ntlemeza. According to the Hawks, Warrant Officer Mashego was brutally murdered after he was following up…