Domestic

A missing four-year-old girl from the small town of Dewetsdorp in the Free State has been found dead. Police spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Thabo Covane says police had been searching for Reitumetse Madibeng for almost a week and eventually discovered her lifeless body in a veld.

Three children have died after they suffocated to death inside a parked vehicle. The tragedy happened in a village in Bolobedu outside Tzaneen in the Limpopo province on Wednesday.

Every day in South Africa, criminal elements strip copper from wherever they can find it, including roads, homes, construction sites and mines. The theft of copper from already ailing infrastructure severely affects the capacity and operations of state-owned entities and municipalities.

Five suspects will appear in the Ermelo Magistrates Court on Thursday in connection with the murder of a local farmer in December. Fifty-nine-year-old Jannie Weideman's body was discovered by his neighbour just days before Christmas after Mrs Weideman expressed her concern when she could not reach him on his phone.

The Director of the travel agency 'Priority Escape', also known as the holiday swindler has been arrested. Francois Swart who allegedly defrauded several would-be holidaymakers out of hundreds of thousands of rand for trips to the Maldives, was arrested in Modimolle on the 28th of December.

Customs officers of the South African Revenue Service (SARS) have seized 23kg of narcotics disguised as moulded artwork with an estimated street value of R37 million at the cargo sheds of the OR Tambo International Airport.

A 27-year-old woman from the Nonyevu locality in Port St Johns is facing a charge of murder after the body of her 11-month-old baby girl was found by a local man in the bushes. Police spokesperson Captain Welile Matyolo says the man went into the bushes on Friday to relieve himself when he found the baby in a refuse bag

A Plettenberg Bay man was on Saturday recovering in hospital after he was bitten by a Ragged Tooth shark that he had caught while fishing at Papiesfontein, north-east of Jeffreys Bay. NSRI spokesperson Craig Lambinon said the 62-year-old man landed the shark at around midday on Friday and, while attempting to free it and released from the fishing gear, the shark bit the man.

Search and rescue teams have discovered the body of another victim of the Ladysmith Christmas Eve flash floods, bringing the local death toll from the disaster to 24. Mayor of the Alfred Duma Local Municipality, Zama Sibisi headed up an extensive search on Friday.