Domestic

The Department of Agriculture, Land Reform, and Rural Development says the government is working on new laws to protest South Africans against pit bull attacks.

Three former ABSA bank employees have been jailed for 15 years each for defrauding the Johannesburg Securities Exchange and Samancor of R190 million.

Two of escapee Thabo Bester's alleged accomplices will remain in custody for their formal bail application after appearing in court on Tuesday.

Five people were killed in a multi-vehicle pile-up on the N3 between Hilton and Cedara in Kwazulu Natal on Easter Monday.

Police have announced the arrest of a 39–year-old former G4S employee and a 65-year-old man from Port Edward, as part of ongoing investigations into the escape of so-called Facebook rapist Thabo Bester.

The Road Traffic Management Corporation has called on motorists to “resist the temptation to break the rules of the road” as they return home from the Easter holidays and religious pilgrimages.

Two people have died and several others injured following yet another deadly head-on collision in the Eastern Cape. The crash took place on Saturday afternoon on the N2 in Mount Ayliff towards Kokstad.  

Two suspected cash-in-transit robbers were killed in a shootout with police in Centurion on Saturday.

The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union Popcru has welcomed the re-arrest of escaped fugitive Thabo Bester in Tanzania. Bester was arrested in the city of Arusha near the Kenyan border on Friday night along with his girlfriend, Dr Nandipha Magudumana, and a Mozambican national who has since been identified as Zacharia Alberto.