Just a Victim (of Crime)

Two days ago, on Wednesday 24 January, a White family became the latest victims of a hijacking and violent house invasion. Sandy Stoltz, of Newlands in the east of Pretoria, was busy on her computer when she noticed these images on her recently installed CCTV camera system. Her brother-in-law had just arrived home, but failed [...]

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31 January 2007
Cape Town - The wording of department of defence advertisements calling for job applications from people who have no “serious” criminal record is an error, according to the defence ministry.
“I’m advised by the department that that is a mistake,” spokesperson Sam Mkhwanazi said on Monday. The adverts, for recruitment into military skills development [...]

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THEY KILL CHILDREN DONT THEY ?
As South Africans we are often tagged with becoming desensitized to the crime in this country; getting used to the levels of brutality because of their frequency, adjusted to a way of life imprisoned in homes that offer little real security.

But this – the cold-blooded murder of [...]

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South Africa”s VIP prisoners have been having a whale of a time – Tony Yengeni served a mere 4 months of his four year sentence for fraud and corruption, and in the time he was incarcerated, had a double bed & big screen TV delivered by a local furniture shop, (installed in the sick bay [...]

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“Come, I’ll beat you to death.”

A motorist claims a Naledi traffic official said this to him during an argument about the traffic cop parking his car in the middle of the town’s main road.
Henk de Jager, 32, and his wife, Elmarie, from the farm Leliefontein, were in town for business on Saturday and they [...]

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Lydenburg - Barely four months after she found her murdered fiance’s body, a young woman was assaulted and raped in her flat in Lydenburg, Mpumalanga.
Mariska Louw, 22, said a man waited for her inside her flat in Lydenburg when she returned from a party on Friday evening.

Louw gave permission for her name to be [...]

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The United Kingdom is “likely” to strip SA of its “visa-free” status this year because of rampant corruption in the Department of Home Affairs, the Sunday Times reported. South Africans would have to pay £63 (nearly R1 000) and provide fingerprints, “facial biometrics” and travel documents to obtain visas, the newspaper said.
Now for those of [...]

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