Vincent Cruywagen is a journalist based in Johannesburg, South Africa. He writes for publications such as Daily Maverick and AllAfrica Global Media, focusing on local news and issues in the Johannesburg area. Vincent's articles cover a range of topics, including crime, corruption, and social issues impacting the community.
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Vincent Cruywagen's coverage focuses on local crime, court cases, and government announcements in South Africa. His emphasis is particularly on evolving stories and breaking news related to crime, corruption, and legal proceedings.
If you have insights or updates related to ongoing criminal investigations, high-profile court cases, or governmental policy changes in South Africa—especially Johannesburg—your pitches may be well-received by Vincent. Additionally, if you can provide expert commentary on the intricacies of the legal system or details about notable crimes within this region, your input could be valuable to his reporting.
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By: Vincent Cruywagen
‘Modack told me I'm going to be his next Pete Mihalik [a lawyer who represented Modack and was fatally shot],' attorney Gary Newmark tells court.
By: Vincent Cruywagen
Court told that threats and a purported R200,000 reward for the killing of a witness testifying in a trial involving Nafiz Modack and his ‘enforcer’ Jacques Cronje led to the witness and his family fleeing South Africa in April 2020.
By: Vincent Cruywagen
Cape Town criminal lawyer William Booth says he is lucky to be alive because State witness, Mr A, who had followed him without his knowledge and conducted surveillance at his offices and home, had already killed two people.
By: Vincent Cruywagen
Evidence gathered through the interception of cellphone communications — ‘pinging' — will be allowed in the Western Cape High Court trial of Nafiz Modack and his 14 co-accused.
By: Vincent Cruywagen
A close examination of the indictments in the murders of steroid king Brian Wainstein and the Anti-Gang Unit's Charl Kinnear reveals similarities and connections. They could be interpreted in some cases as a single combined indictment divided into two.
By: Vincent Cruywagen
Mother's Day in Saldanha Bay wasn't the usual happy occasion as many moms and families expressed concern over the whereabouts of six-year-old Joshlin Smith and whether or not she was still alive.
By: Vincent Cruywagen
A US citizen whose company designed a system to track cellphones testified in the Western Cape Division of the High Court that the LAD platform could accurately determine a cellphone user's location.
By: Vincent Cruywagen
Alleged underworld figure Nafiz Modack and his associates used the names of characters from the Narcos television series as aliases, the Western Cape Division of the High Court has been told.
By: Vincent Cruywagen
A US citizen whose company designed a system to track cellphones testified in the Western Cape Division of the High Court that the LAD platform could accurately determine a cellphone user's location.
By: Vincent Cruywagen
Two weeks before the Anti-Gang Unit's Lt-Col Charl Kinnear was shot dead on 18 September 2020, State witness Bradley Goldblatt panicked about the number of pings on Kinnear's phone and contacted the authorities.
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