Lynn Williams

A trial date has been set in the case against a Paradise Beach father and his 19-year-old stepson, who face more than 700 charges which include rape and sexual grooming.

Western Cape police and members of the Saldanha community are still searching for Joslin Smith, 6, who disappeared without a trace on Monday.

The South African Police Services cracked down on a syndicate believed to be behind the selling and supplying of explosives to criminals.

The bail application of a Gqeberha firearms dealer who faces a litany of charges relating to a missing cache of hundreds of firearms concluded in the city's magistrate court on Thursday.

Damning evidence of how more than 70 firearms that went missing from Webbs Arms in Gqeberha had made their way into the hands of dangerous criminals, surfaced during the bail hearing of firearms dealer Karen Webb on Wednesday.

The Gqeberha man who allegedly murdered his wife, who was a well-known real estate agent, appeared briefly in the Magistrates Court on Tuesday.

Heavily armed policemen were present in the Gqeberha Magistrates Court on Tuesday when the eight men arrested in connection with a cache of illegal firearms made a brief appearance.

The Gqeberha firearms dealer, charged with the theft of ten 9mm Glock pistols, launched her bid for bail in the Magistrates Court on Monday.

The bail applications of the two men from Gqeberha who allegedly murdered a known gangster, got underway in the city's Magistrates Court on Thursday.