Alex Mitchley

Minister of Police Firoz Cachalia has announced the establishment of a police advisory panel that will include former South African Revenue Service commissioner Edward Kieswetter. The panel is part of what the minister has termed the police reset agenda.

Texas, California, Florida, Ohio and New York are listed as the most popular US states for the placement of South Africans identified as refugees by the American government.

Police officer Captain Laurance Makgotloe has been accused of deliberately sabotaging a ballistics report on the firearms used to assassinate Vereeniging engineer Armand Swart, to protect the alleged hitmen by derailing the prosecution against them.

The City of Tshwane council and the various political parties in power over the last decade are to blame for the prevailing situation at the old, dilapidated Tshwane University of Technology residences, which are unlawfully occupied.

Disgraced former midwife Yolande Maritz Fouchee has been sentenced to 23 years' imprisonment.

Shortly after a forensic investigator in the Mpumalanga premier’s office was shot in Pretoria, he called someone and named one of the gunmen as a colleague he had been investigating for fraud.

Despite a court order, the acting Secretary of Defence, Dr Thobekile Gamede, has refused to declassify military documents from the apartheid era – dating back some 40 years – citing concerns that it would prejudice the security of South Africa.

As Chris Oldnall and Peet Crowther were knee deep in the surf at Miller's Point beach in Cape Town – about to embark on a world first swim, a double