Rustenburg Ten Held for Possession of Copper Cables The long arm of the law caught up with copper cable thieves when police in Marikana and Aquarius mine security officials apprehended 10 suspects for theft and possession of suspected stolen copper cables on Wednesday, 22 October 2014. The suspects were arrested at a disused Aquarius mine […]
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Rustenburg Police arrest six suspects and confiscate drugs In a bid to curb the illicit drug trade, police arrested six alleged drug dealers and confiscated drugs with an estimated street value of R8000 in Rustenburg. On Wednesday, 11 June 2014, members of K9 Phokeng embarked on a drug cleanup operation around the Rustenburg Police Cluster. […]
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Police Caught Murder Suspect and Other Police News The police in Marikana arrested a second suspect who is allegedly linked to the murder of Dumisani Dlamini (33). Dlamini was a former employee of Lonmin. He was shot at the Wonderkop taxi rank at approximately 21:00 on Thursday, 29 August 2013. The 37-year-old taxi owner was arrested on 16 […]
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Marikana Commemoration 16/08/2013 Today (16/08/2013) is the Commemoration Service to honour those who died in Marikana during August last year, is taking place in Marikana. The organisers, the South African Council of Churches and AMCU, applied for and were granted permission to hold the gathering. Mourners are gradually converging on the commemoration venue and the […]
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North West Police Success The police in various parts of the North-West province were out in numbers in the past week, between 22 and 28 July 2013 when they arrested a total of 752 suspects for Contact crimes, Contacted related, Property related crimes as well as trio crimes. The arrested suspects include 162 for Assault […]
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