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Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe, the late former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe’s son, was arrested for attempted murder on Thursday after a shooting at his Hyde Park residence
ALEXANDRA TOWNSHIP

Man implicated by slain Witness D survives Boksburg shooting

Wiandre Pretorius was shot at 16 times and walked away unharmed by what police believe was a targeted hit after he was implicated at the Madlanga Commission

  • Nkateko Joseph Mabasa
2 min read
National Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola. (SAPS/X)
ALEXANDRA TOWNSHIP

Three suspects identified in killing of Madlanga commission’s Witness D

Police have detained one of the suspects, who is currently being questioned, national police commissioner Fannie Masemola told journalists

  • Nkateko Joseph Mabasa
2 min read
DA uMngeni chief whip, Nhlalayenza Ndlovu. (Supplied)
AFRIFORUM

AfriForum private prosecution unit says family of slain DA leader ‘extremely fearful’

In December, it will be a year since Nhlalayenza Ndlovu was gunned down in front of his wife and children

  • Londiwe Xulu
3 min read
South Africa’s Jewish and Muslim communities have condemned the killing of Halima Hoosen-Preston and the knife assault on her family at their home in Durban, in what appears to be an Islamophobic attack. (Cornel van Heerden/Gallo)
ANTI MUSLIM VIOLENCE

Durban woman murdered in alleged Islamophobic attack

Halima Hoosen-Preston was killed in her home apparently after an altercation with a local man whose relatives were killed in Israel

  • Lyse Comins
5 min read