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Gauteng’s top police brass are leading an operation near the Goudkoppies landfill site where bodies have been piling up, with nine murders in the past two weeks
ELDORADO PARK

Nine dead: Police descend on lawless ‘Lapland’ at Goudkoppies landfill

The police operation coincided with the discovery of another four bodies near the site on Johannesburg’s Golden Highway on Wednesday morning

  • Tunicia Phillips
5 min read
Toll: South Sudan rebels carry an injured comrade after a 2017 assault on government soldiers. Accurate statistics are hard to come by in places fraught with disasters and crises. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)
GOLDEN HIGHWAY

Protests in Zakariyya Park as water crisis looms

Residents say they find themselves without water almost weekly

  • Sarah Smit
2 min read
Several drivers from VDM Group claim that they are being unfairly remunerated.
GOLDEN HIGHWAY

Major delays on N3 following protest near Mooi River toll plaza

Angry protesters who barricaded the route on Monday morning have now begun looting from burning delivery trucks stuck in traffic.

  • Jan Bornman
1 min read
GOLDEN HIGHWAY

All calm following Jo’burg service delivery unrest

The Golden highway was opened to traffic on Tuesday following a violent protest on Monday that left a Johannesburg metro policeman injured.

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read