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The Asset Forfeiture Unit (AFU) of the National Prosecuting Authority, the Special Investigating Unit (SIU), and the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks) have seized various assets and properties valued at approximately R52.6 million. This follows an investigation into alleged Covid-19 PPE fraud.

Police in the Garden Route are investigating a mysterious fire that broke out at the Tree Top Chalet in Knysna Section of the Garden Route National Park (GRNP) last week.

The Pinnacle Point Site Complex in Mossel Bay is one of three sites that are lining up for World Heritage status this week. This will happen at the 46th Session of the UNESCO World Heritage convention when the Committee will deliberate on whether Pinnacle Point will achieve World Heritage status.

An alleged drug mule nabbed at the OR Tambo International Airport made his first appearance in the Kempton Park Magistrates Court on Monday. A spokesperson for the Hawks Captain Lloyd Ramovha says the 36-year-old Brazilian national, Risclif Tadue Ramos attempted to smuggle a consignment of 4 kg of cocaine into country.

The war in Sudan has led to a collapse in the protection of civilians, with communities facing indiscriminate violence, killings, torture and sexual violence amid persistent attacks on health workers and medical facilities, according to a report released by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Monday.

The bail application of a Gqeberha man who has been charged with the murder of his father was postponed in the city's Magistrates Court on Monday.

Two young men who chased after a soccer ball before being swept out to sea on Sunday came to a tragic end when two bodies believed to be them were discovered.

A prominent medical doctor from Kwadwesi in Gqeberha was killed on Sunday in a head-on collision on the R75.