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The police and non-profit organisation Women and Men Against Child Abuse (WMACA) have announced the launch of an organised crime investigation into teachers and sports coaches who are allegedly part of a ring of sexual predators targeting children at elite schools. On Thursday, Colonel Heila Niemand confirmed during a press briefing in Johannesburg that the police have reopened the case against disgraced former St Andrews College water polo coach David McKenzie.

Police and anti-poaching units in Nelson Mandela Bay have made two significant abalone busts this week, during which diving equipment worth thousands of rands was also confiscated. Colonel Priscilla Naidu says the busts were all effected on Wednesday.

Despatch detectives are urgently seeking the public's assistance in tracing a teenager who was reported missing on Tuesday this week. Police spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu says 18-year-old Almonre Antovian Ashley Roman was dropped off by a relative at the Pick 'n Pay in Despatch on Monday morning.

Eastern Cape police have confirmed that criminal case dockets have been found at a dump site in the Buffalo City area.

A man whose decomposed body was found dumped in a bag outside a school in Schauderville has been identified. Spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu says family members identified him as 35-year-old Siyabulela Zonqo.

Two truck drivers were killed on Thursday following a head-on collission on the R72. A spokesperson for Provincial Traffic Unathi Binqose says a bakery truck with two occupants and an articulated container truck with just a driver, collided head-on shortly before 5 am.

The death toll in the Jukskei river baptism tragedy has risen to 15 after the discovery of yet another congregant’s body. The body of the woman was found under a bridge in Sandton near the M1 highway on Wednesday.

A villager in Matatiele, Eastern Cape, died on Sunday waiting for a state ambulance that arrived about eight hours after it was summoned. There is only one state ambulance in an area with nearly 300 villages, say, paramedics.

A 47-year-old man has been jailed for life for raping a 13-year-old child and attempting to rape her 11-year-old friend in a Pretoria Hotel in 2020. Amos Thulani Khumalo was sentenced in the Pretoria Magistrates Court on Tuesday.