The arrests were made early on Wednesday in Soweto, two days after detectives recovered Fleurs’s car
The arrests come during an increase in municipal vehicle hijackings
‘I realised I needed to keep quiet because, if I didn’t, I was going to die’
Being prepared for potential crises is essential for schools.
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/ 18 November 2010
A second suspect has been arrested in connection with the hijacking and murder of a tourist in Gugulethu at the weekend.
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/ 15 December 2009
Two hijackers were shot dead by snipers following a 20-hour hostage drama outside Petrusburg in the Free State on Tuesday morning, paramedics said.
The man who hijacked Judy Sexwale has been sentenced to 15 years’ jail by the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court in Johannesburg, The Star reported o
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/ 12 February 2009
Contradictory versions by two detectives of how two of the men accused of murdering Lucky Dube were arrested were heard in the Jo’burg High Court.
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/ 5 February 2009
A chance that a witness saw the accused in the Lucky Dube murder trial before an identity parade led to an adjournment in the Jo’burg High Court.
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/ 3 February 2009
A witness in the Lucky Dube murder trial identified one of the accused as having asked him to fix a green Polo, the Jo’burg High Court heard.
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/ 23 December 2008
Three people were arrested in Daveyton, Benoni, for hijacking a taxi at gunpoint, police said on Tuesday.
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/ 16 November 2008
The hijacking of a black VW Polo Playa led to an arrest after a car chase in the Pretoria city centre on Saturday morning, said police on Sunday.
A 32-year-old man was shot dead with his own firearm in an apparent botched hijacking on the N1 highway north-west of Johannesburg on Thursday.
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/ 29 September 2008
Johannesburg metro police arrested a suspected hijack kingpin in Soweto on the weekend who has been linked to 19 hijackings and armed robberies.
Passengers from a hijacked Sudanese jet returned home to families on Thursday, having feared they would die at the hands of the gunmen.
Hijackers of a Sudanese airliner surrendered to authorities in Libya after releasing all the passengers on Wednesday, Libya’s aviation authority said.
The hijackers of a Sudanese plane that was forced to land in Libya released all passengers on Wednesday, a Libyan aviation authority official said.
The hijackers of a plane that took off from Sudan’s Darfur region were refusing to negotiate on Wednesday after landing at a remote desert airfield.
Two masterminds of a series of hijackings of cigarette vehicles belonging to British American Tobacco were on Tuesday slapped with lengthy jail terms.
Two suspected hijackers were shot dead during a shoot-out with the police in Atteridgeville in Pretoria, police said on Sunday.
A hijacker nabbed following a shootout with police on the KwaZulu-Natal North Coast has turned out to be a police officer, police said on Monday.