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Flying Squad arrests suspect in stolen vehicle on N1 to Zimbabwe
A 54-year-old suspect has been arrested by the Flying Squad team from both Waterberg and Capricorn districts for possession of a suspected hijacked vehicle. The arrest took place on Sunday, October 13...Published: 15 Oct 2024 at 14:53hrs | 978 | by Staff reporter
5 killed as Zimbabwe-bound bus crashes in South Africa
Five people reportedly lost their lives, and an unspecified number were injured when a Tamuka Luxury coach crashed in Mokopane, Limpopo province, South Africa, on Sunday evening.Media reports ...Published: 02 Sep 2024 at 11:37hrs | 1037 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean cigarette smuggler busted in SA
South African authorities have intercepted a 20-year-old migrant transporting smuggled cigarettes worth an estimated R160,000. The arrest was confirmed by Limpopo police spokesperson, Colonel Malasela...Published: 10 Jul 2024 at 15:41hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
South Africans jailed after being caught driving stolen Toyota to Zimbabwe
Two suspects, Simphiwe Dhladhla, 32, and Siphiwe Sigasa, 31, were remanded in custody after appearing in court for possession of a stolen Toyota Fortuner and a Toyota Hilux GD-6 bakkie.The duo...Published: 27 Jun 2024 at 07:06hrs | 28 | by Staff reporter
ZCC woman who never wears pants makes TikTok video
A woman in the ZCC showed people that she dresses modestly no matter the weather. In a video, the lady wanted others to see that she stays warm while dressing according to her values.The video...Published: 10 Jun 2024 at 12:56hrs | 96 | by Staff reporter
3 vehicles stolen in Gauteng intercepted at Beitbridge border post
Four suspected criminals, aged between 28 and 64, have been arrested as Limpopo police recovered three stolen vehicles at the Beitbridge port of entry which separates South Africa and Zimbabwe....Published: 10 Feb 2024 at 10:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man in court for foiled bid to smuggle Toyota Hilux stolen from SA to Zimbabwe via Beitbridge
A 33-year-old man, Vincente Sebastiao "Deco" Khoza, has appeared before the Modjadjiskloof Periodical Court after he was arrested by the Musina-based Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation, also...Published: 25 Jan 2024 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean jailed in South Africa over stolen car
A SOUTH AFRICAN court has jailed a Zimbabwean man Cosmos Ndou (36) for eight years after he was found in possession of a stolen car.Ndou was also charged for contravening South Africa's immigr...Published: 16 Jan 2024 at 04:42hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man jailed 8 years in SA
A 36-year-old Zimbabwean man has been jailed for an effective eight years by a Mokopane Regional Court in South Africa after he was found driving a stolen car that was heading to the Limpopo River....Published: 16 Jan 2024 at 04:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man arrested after Toyota RAV4 stolen in Gauteng
Police in Mpumalanga have arrested a 38-year-old Zimbabwean national during an intelligence-driven operation where a stolen Toyota RAV4 vehicle was recovered.The operation was carried out on S...Published: 28 Dec 2023 at 07:36hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
South African robber no match to Zimbabwean police, shot dead
A South African national was one of two suspected criminals killed in a shootout with detectives from the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) in Arcadia, Harare.State media in Zimbabwe, The Herald ...Published: 24 Dec 2023 at 15:54hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean arrested in SA driving a stolen truck
A ZIMBABWEAN man was recently arrested in Mokopane, South Africa, while driving a stolen Toyota Hilux GD-6 truck to Bulawayo, the South African Police Services (Saps) has said.The truck had be...Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 08:12hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
R1,4 million smuggled Zimbabwean cigarettes intercepted in South Africa
SOUTH African police have intercepted another consignment of Zimbabwean cigarettes worth R1,4 million that was being smuggled into the neighbouring country through Botswana.On Monday, two peop...Published: 06 Apr 2023 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SA police intercept cigarette contraband
South African police have said they are not relenting in their quest to curb the smuggling of cigarettes between the neighbouring country and Zimbabwe.This follows the interception of a contra...Published: 04 Apr 2023 at 06:25hrs | 1 | by Mbuso Ndlovu
2 Zimbabweans nabbed for cross-border stocktheft
South African police on Friday arrested two Zimbabweans and a national of that country for allegedly stealing goats and sheep valued at about R118 000.The trio stole the livestock in Zimbabwe ...Published: 19 Mar 2023 at 07:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa is doing nothing, I'm doing his job' - SA health minister in new rant
A new video has emerged of South Africa's health minister for Limpopo province railing at the Zimbabwe government for presiding over a failing health system.Dr Phophi Ramathuba complains that ...Published: 01 Sep 2022 at 20:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe family can't bury victim of SA serial killer
The brother of one of the victims of the alleged Limpopo serial killer is frustrated and struggling to survive in South Africa since leaving his country to retrieve the body of his sister allegedly ki...Published: 27 Jan 2022 at 04:34hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man arrested in SA over highway robberies
A Zimbabwean robber has been arrested along with three South Africans for unleashing a reign of terror on motorists using the N1 Highway. The N1 is a major commercial road that links South Africa with...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers resurface with aid of spikes along N1
South African police have intensified patrols along the N1 highway in Limpopo province, where armed robbers are using spikes to pounce on motorists. The N1 highway is major commercial road tha...Published: 23 Aug 2021 at 17:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lengthy SA jail terms for recaptured Zimbabwean fugitives
A SOUTH AFRICAN court on Tuesday sentenced members of a gang of armed robbers, including two Zimbabweans, to 22-year jail sentences each.The notorious robbers had been implicated in several cr...Published: 29 Jul 2021 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans rearrested after prison escape in South Africa
THREE of the four armed robbers who last Wednesday managed to disarm a police officer and escape while being transported to Mokopane Regional Court in Limpopo, South Africa were arrested Saturday....Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 18:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
3 Zimbabwean armed robbers escape from SA prison
Three Zimbabwean armed robbers and a South African man are on the run after escaping from police custody on Wednesday evening while being transported from Polokwane Central Correctional facility to Mo...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 16:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
South Africa police in R1 million cigarettes haul
THE South African Police Service (Saps) has arrested three people for illegal possession of 707 620 cartons of cigarettes valued close to R1 million all of Zimbabwean origin.The arrest was mad...Published: 29 Sep 2020 at 07:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
3 dead 'Zimbabweans' remain unclaimed in SA
POLICE in Mokopane area, Limpopo province in South Africa are seeking help in the identification of three accident victims believed to be Zimbabweans whose bodies are unclaimed at a local mortuary....Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 08:27hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe moots stop and search roadblocks
GOVERNMENT is considering introducing stop-and-search security roadblocks on roads following a wave of armed robberies targeting cross-border buses plying the Zimbabwe-South Africa route.A num...Published: 16 Feb 2019 at 20:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers pounce on Zimbabwe-bound bus in SA
Passengers on a bus that was headed for Bulawayo from Johannesburg (South Africa) had their festive mood dampened after being robbed of their valuables by armed robbers on the N1 Musina-Johannesburg H...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 12:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Harare - Johannesburg Intercape bus in accident, 10 people dead
At least 10 people were killed in a bus crash on the N1 in Limpopo on Friday morning, police said. There are reports that the InterCape bus, a Volvo bus reg no: ICG 077 GP, travelling from Har...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 09:47hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
11 killed, 9 critical after bus travelling from Zambia to SA
Eleven people were killed when a bus travelling from Zambia crashed in Polokwane on Monday morning."Eleven people are confirmed to be deceased," Limpopo Department of Transport spokesperson Ma...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 11:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
3 SA-bound Zimbabwe buses hijacked
A Bulawayo man was shot on the ear after he withheld R10 from highway robbers who hijacked buses, omalayitsha and two private motorists between Musina and Kranskop along Musina- Johannesburg Highway o...Published: 22 May 2018 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean face murder charges in South Africa
SIX suspects, who include a Zimbabwean and six South Africans, have been arrested over the alleged murder of an elderly South African couple in the Mokopane area, south of Beitbridge, on August 19 thi...Published: 13 Sep 2017 at 06:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Another Zimbabwean bus robbed in South Africa
A SECOND Zimbabwean bus travelling to Johannesburg was on Thursday night attacked by three gunmen who stripped the passengers of money and cellphones between Polokwane and Mokopane towns. The Intercap...Published: 25 Jun 2016 at 09:28hrs | | by Thupeyo Muleya
3 SA accident victims' bodies repatriated
THREE Zimbabweans including an eight months old baby who were killed in a road accident in South Africa have been repatriated for burial after the police successfully conducted DNA profiling. ...Published: 04 Apr 2016 at 06:47hrs | | by Thupeyo Muleya
3 SA crash victims repatriated
Three Zimbabweans, including an eight-month-old baby who were killed in a road accident along the R101 Highway near Mokopane town in South Africa's Limpopo Province, have been repatriated for burial a...Published: 31 Mar 2016 at 00:09hrs | | by Thupeyo Muleya
Families of SA accident victims in Beitbridge for DNA tests
FAMILIES who lost their relatives in a horror crash that killed 14 Zimbabweans, including an eight-month-old toddler in South Africa recently, have travelled to Beitbridge for DNA tests to help identi...Published: 02 Feb 2016 at 05:27hrs | 1 | by Sukulwenkosi Dube
BREAKING: 14 Zimbabweans killed in Limpopo road crash
Fourteen people including a toddler have been killed in a crash involving a truck and a bakkie on the R101 outside Mokopane in Limpopo on Wednesday morning.Three people have been injured. ...Published: 20 Jan 2016 at 06:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA horrific accident victims named
THE Zimbabwe Consulate in South Africa has released the names of Zaoga band members based in South Africa who were killed in a road accident in Pretoria on Thursday morning. Moments of Praise ...Published: 22 Aug 2015 at 09:54hrs | | by Thupeyo Muleya
Malema business associates 'not guilty'
Johannesburg - Three of EFF leader Julius Malema's business associates have been acquitted on corruption charges in the Mokopane Regional Court, The Star reported on Thursday."The court dismis...Published: 27 Mar 2014 at 08:23hrs | | by Sapa
'ANC Zanu-fying SA politics'
Johannesburg - The intimidation of voters by the ruling party, similar to that in Zimbabwe, will not be allowed in South Africa, Agang SA said on Friday."Since the launch of Agang SA as a poli...Published: 11 Oct 2013 at 16:56hrs | | by Sapa
Muthi traps thug
HE WAITED quietly for the sangoma to leave his surgery. . .Then the 18-year-old snealted in to steal two blankets, a DVD player and R200!But instead of leaving the sangoma's yard with ...Published: 31 May 2012 at 15:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA police seize R1 million worth of counterfeit goods
SA police have seized counterfeit CDs, DVDs, scanners, computers, printers and fireworks with an estimated value of over R1 million.The aim of the operation was to reduce piracy which affected...Published: 31 Dec 2011 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Google expands South Africa street view
Pretoria - Google has expanded its South African street view image bank, allowing users to explore even more of the country from the comfort of their PCs, the company announced on Monday.Subst...Published: 11 Jul 2011 at 19:35hrs | | by Ndou Paul
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