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Precious Mthembu

Precious Mthembu is the Senior Reporter and covers the police, the courts and the daily news of the country, with the people in the story rather than only the institution answering for it.

Earlier from Precious Mthembu

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Eighteen election cases in KwaZulu-Natal and seven arrests, as a sergeant is pulled from a Donnybrook voting station over party posters

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229 arrested across Ekurhuleni in weekend police sweep, two liquor outlets shut

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Two arrested on the R56 with three rifles as police close in near Steynsburg

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Two men shot dead in a Khayelitsha minibus taxi, three die in a day as Cape Town's taxi war grinds on

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Arrests as special voting closes, police out in force for election day

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Man arrested after firearm allegedly pointed at driver ferrying elderly voters in Maake

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250 extra police pour into Sekhukhune as voters go to the polls

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Farm dweller, 26, charged with murder of neighbour in Goedemoed

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Father gets life in prison for raping his 15-year-old daughter

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SAPS warns over fake video built on an old rank-confirmation photo

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Seven licensed guns taken as armed men pour hot water on Broederstroom man, 66

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No ID, no vote: Home Affairs opens offices 07:00 to 21:00 on Election Day

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Botshabelo kidnapping suspect was already out on R10 000 bail for business robbery

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IEC bans marches nationwide on Election Day as Moepya sets the voting station rules

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Northern Cape votes under police guard as SAPS deploys across all five districts

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Three ballots, three choices: what voters will actually see at the local polls

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Gauteng police roll out show of force and walk voting stations ahead of 2026 local elections

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Voters queue at Schweizer-Reneke polling station as local government election day gets under way

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IEC to voters: photograph your ballot and you break the law

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Police helicopter to sweep Free State polling stations on election day

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Police line Western Cape voting stations as special voting enters day two

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Western Cape goes to the polls with police out on every street and no area left unguarded

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Free State police arrest 1,039 suspects in a week as festive season crackdown bites

Precious Mthembu files to the News section. The other editors are in The Editors' Room.