Domestic

Police have arrested three suspects for the murder of a doctor in his Soweto surgery on Friday.

A policeman has been killed in a shootout with a criminal gang in Mpumalanga during a raid on a guesthouse in Kabokweni.

Ntuthuko Shoba (32) has been found guilty of the murder of Tshegofatso Pule, the heavily pregnant mother of his unborn child. Judge Stuart Wilson found Shoba's evidence to be unconvincing as he handed down judgement in the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg on Friday.

Home Affairs Minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, has announced the arrest of dozens of people, including the alleged kingpin behind a massive passport fraud scam

A prosecutor based in Cape Town has been honoured with a medal from the United States of America (USA) Secret Service for his work on the case against the Black Axe syndicate. South African Authorities have been working together with the Secret Service, Interpol and the FBI to arrest so-called "romance scamsters" who would exploit vulnerable women online for money. The suspects all pretended to be rich businessmen from America and have defrauded several women of over R100 million since 2011.

Two suspects who allegedly defrauded a woman in an online dating scam in Gauteng are behind bars and set to make their second court appearance on Friday. A spokesperson for the Hawks Captain Ndivhuwo Mulamu says the first suspect, 40-year-old Ometese Ebor, was looking for a potential partner on social media.

South Africans will no longer have to wear face masks outdoors, but it remains mandatory in indoor public spaces.

A code of practice will replace the current Covid directions when the National State of Disaster lapses. and it has already been Gazetted. The code makes mandatory vaccination permissible and workers will be required to disclose their vaccination status.

Mpumalanga police are investigating the murder of a 76-year-old man on the farm Welgevonden near Delmas on Sunday.