Cape Town – Residents in the city’s crime hot spots are being shortchanged because law enforcement staff are forced to deal with ongoing service delivery protests in other areas.

One-third of the City of Cape Town’s police officers had to be redeployed from their usual activities to deal with unrest and poo protests on major freeways, said JP Smith, mayoral committee member for safety and security.
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Atlantis – Police have arrested a 21-year-old man in connection with a shooting in which a seven-year-old Atlantis boy was killed and his mother wounded. Two other men were also wounded.

Ruhan Botha was enjoying a family braai with his 33-year-old mother, Liezel, on Friday and the rest of his family when shots rang out. Ruhan was fatally wounded and his mother wounded in the neck.
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A 79-year-old woman is suing a North West couple for R234 000 after she was attacked by their dogs four years ago, The Citizen reported on Friday.

In court papers, Hester Nel from Mooinooi said she had undergone emergency surgery after Gert and Maria van der Linde’s male and female Boerboels attacked her in April 2009.

Nel sustained various deep lacerations and abrasions to her head, arms, hands. legs and feet, as well as numerous ligament injuries to her legs and feet, according to the newspaper.

She was first taken to a general practitioner, whereafter she was transferred to a private hospital where she had surgery. She was treated for five days.

Some of her wounds became septic and required further medical treatment.

According to the court papers Nel had suffered disfiguring scars for which she needed reconstructive surgery, she also suffered from post-traumatic stress syndrome.

Nel alleged that the dogs either acted contrary to the nature of their class, or that the owners had been negligent.

The Van der Linde’s denied any negligence and said Nel was to blame for the attack.

They claimed Nel was warned about the dogs and told to phone before she entered the premises.

The civil claim was postponed in the High Court in Pretoria indefinitely. – Sapa

Johannesburg – The source who claims that Dina Pule’s boyfriend arranged to assassinate MPs probing her for misconduct is not credible, says the police.

According to a Sunday Times report, the former communications minister’s boyfriend, Phosane Mngqibisa allegedly plotted the murders of top Parliamentary officials Ben Turok and Fazela Mohamed who were probing Pule for misconduct.
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Cape Town – Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng lashed out at his “white brothers” who want to have him impeached over remarks on the transformation of the judiciary.

“If I was racist I would be saying only black women should benefit from transformation. Maybe there is something wrong with my logic,” he said on Friday during the keynote address at the International Association of Women Judges at the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s [UKZN] School of Law.
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Mahikeng – North West government officials are expected to appear before the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) this week over their handling of the lucrative D-Account for mining royalties.

Mining companies deposit royalties for tribal communities into the account, which recently came under scrutiny after allegations emerged that it has been looted for many years, the Sunday Independent reported.

The account, which has not been audited since 1994, has had large sums of money withdrawn from it – money which cannot be accounted for.

Officials from the North West departments of finance and local government are expected to appear before Scopa public hearings to explain their departments’ roles in the handling of the account.

Lonmin confirmed last week that they had paid R372m into the account between 1970 and 2011.

The money is earmarked for the Bapo ba Mogale community. 

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Johannesburg – Four people have been arrested for allegedly killing a suspected burglar in Panorama Gardens, Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal police say.

Johannesburg – A 45-year-old man was arrested for driving at a slow speed on the N1 north in Midrand, the Johannesburg metro police department said on Sunday.

Spokesperson Wayne Minnaar said the man was driving at 30km/h on the highway’s fast lane on Saturday night.

“He was caught driving with the vehicle’s lights off, cruising on a national road that is a 120km/h zone,” Minnaar said.

When the man was pulled over and instructed to get out of the car, he struggled to stand upright to take a breathalyser test, Minnaar said.

“He tested 0.90mlg which is nearly four times above the legal limit of 0.24mlg.”

The man was arrested and taken to the Midrand police station.

He was expected to appear in the Randburg Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday to face a drunk driving charge.

SAPA

Johannesburg – A man was killed and seven others were injured in a collision on the N2 south near Scottburgh, KwaZulu Natal on Sunday, paramedics said.

ER24 spokesperson Vanessa Jackson said it was believed two cars first collided head on.

One of the vehicles spun out of contol and crashed into a bus that was travelling south. 

“The driver of one of the cars sustained fatal injuries…and the fire department used the jaws of life to remove him from the wreckage,” Jackson said.

Four other passengers in the same car sustained moderate injuries, while the three travelling in the other car were treated at a nearby hospital.

The 95 passengers from the bus were not injured.

SAPA

The national chairperson of the ANC, Baleka Mbethe, was close to tears after she saw the good work which was being done by a former councillor who cares for about 27 sickly elderly people and youth at her old age centre in Galeshewe.

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