Domestic

The Minister of Justice and Correctional Services and National Commissioner for Correctional Services have a year to rectify a policy which allows prisons to bar inmates from using personal computers in their cells. The Supreme Court of Appeal ruled on Wednesday that the policy is unconstitutional.

Police in Gauteng have arrested 13 suspects believed to be security personnel for two rival taxi associations in Kagiso. Spokesperson Colonel Dimakatso Nevhuhulwi says police from the West Rand District attended a scene where the two security groups were firing at each other.

A 49-year-old foreign national is in police custody following his arrest on charges of fraud relating to an online romance scam. Police spokesperson Captain FC van Wyk says detectives attached to the Provincial Crimes Unit in the Western Cape arrested the suspect on Wednesday.

A Palm Ridge couple is out on bail of R10 000 after allegedly swindling millions of Rand out of an unsuspecting investor. Mark Dean Kitchenbrand, 53, and Naomie Elizabeth Kitchenbrand, 57, appeared in the local magistrates court on Tuesday after they handed themselves over to the authorities on the same day.

Ford Motor Company marks 100 years in SA by making R5.2 bn investment announcement for its Silverton plant.

A 30-year-old woman who is the wife of an alleged cryptocurrency fraudster, Sandile Shezi, is in police custody. A spokesperson for the Hawks in Gauteng, Captain Tlangelani Rikhotso says Slindile Mkhize appeared in the Alexander Magistrates Court on Wednesday.

A convicted rapist has been sentenced to life imprisonment after he killed his friend during a violent argument. Thabiso Mojapelo, 37, who is also a convicted robber, was sentenced in the Johannesburg Magistrates court this week.

A man from Springbok in the Northern Cape appeared in the local Magistrates Court on Tuesday on a double attempted murder charge. Spokesperson for the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) Mojalefa Senokoatsane says during his appearance, the court heard that the two victims had passed away and the charge was changed to murder.

Police intercepted and arrested members of a heavily armed CIT gang in Free State.