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R1,2 million dagga bust in Hartbeespoort

R1,2 million dagga bust in Hartbeespoort

Left: One of the indoor premises where marijuana was cultivated. The Hartbeespoort police confiscated marijuana with a street value of over R1,2 million during one of the biggest marijuana busts in the area so far, last [...]

Plotwag red twee van aanvallers

Plotwag red twee van aanvallers

Links: Rudi van Wyk (36) en Joe Jambaya (42)  is deur drie mans met pangas aangeval. Die Plotwag se noodradio het Vrydag twee werkers van ‘n meubelfabriek in Rietfontein se lewens gered na hulle deur drie [...]

Much needed victim support centre opens

Much needed victim support centre opens

Left: The women who did it from left:  Alcrayzane van der Walt, Alta Craemer, Sanette Henderson, Rozani Du Plessis, Narinda Zeeman,  Nelmarie Eloff, Daleen Taylor, Helena Meyer.  Agter is Zelda Smith. Marika Binder en Rina Botha [...]

Brits police start stolen goods campaign

Brits police start stolen goods campaign

The Brits police started a second hand goods campaign in Brits this week in order to address the buying of and dealing in stolen goods. The police in conjunction with the Community Policing Forum, National Prosecuting [...]

Security officers arrested after protecting lives

Security officers arrested after protecting lives

Left: Rose Makhubela (37) was one of the women attacked by illegal strikers at a furniture factory in Brits. Three security officers were arrested on Monday after they fired rubber bullets at violent illegal protesters who [...]

Watch out for hospital job scam

Watch out for hospital job scam

The Brits District Hospital issued a warning to all job seekers not to fall for a scam where people are ‘selling’ job opportunities at the new Brits Hospital that opens later this year. “The hospital’s management [...]

Giant marijuana plants found

Giant marijuana plants found

Left: Reservist Warrant Officer Koos Coetzee carries some of the giant marijuana plants found in a squatter camp. The police found more than 40 giant marijuana plants of over 2m tall in a Rietfontein squatter camp [...]

Madibeng op terme oor Ifafi plakkerskamp

Madibeng op terme oor Ifafi plakkerskamp

Links: Die ‘plakkerskamp’ by Santa Fé wat inwoners woedend het. Die Madibeng munisipaliteit is dié week deur AfriForum se tak in Hartbeespoort op terme geplaas oor die onwettige plakkers by die Santa Fé-eiendom in Hartbeespoort. “Afriforum [...]

Hijacking drama at Village Mall

Hijacking drama at Village Mall

Left: The hijackers abandoned this delivery van on Silkaatsnek. In a dramatic hijacking drama at the Village Mall yesterday, two local residents tried to help the victims, then gave chase after the hijackers and were shot [...]

Brawe seun (16) red vriendin, word self in rooftog geskiet

Brawe seun (16) red vriendin, word self in rooftog geskiet

Links: Luday van der Merwe van Brits wat Oujaarsdagaand in ‘n rooftog geskiet is, sterk in die Dr George Mukhari Hospitaal aan. By hom is sy vriend Kobus Meyer tydens ‘n onlangse besoek. Luday van der [...]