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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

News

Two brothers jailed, R7-million gone: Free State farming company's long wait for justice ends

News

Cat Matlala and three co-accused wait until February 2027 as R95,000 Waterkloof lease fraud case is postponed

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Durban court gags March and March as police warn the refugee centre will burn

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Two Zimbabweans Jailed 12 Years Each for Cutting R2 Million in Railway Copper Cable in Limpopo

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Three Ethiopian Nationals Accused of Breaking Durban Man's Legs Fight for Bail as State Says Keep Them Locked Up

News

Suliman Carrim granted R100k bail in Madlanga Commission case

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Kimberley man who stabbed his father to death gets ten years, and a firearms ban

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R341m to move people out, R122m to hold them: how Home Affairs spends your money on removals

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R100 000 to walk out of Pretoria cells, and Carrim still sits in Musina custody

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Five killed in Blode Street, then a family kept brain tissue in a fridge

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Six arrested on the Ermelo road as police seize AK-47, two filed-off pistols and 31 rounds

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Police stop slow-moving tanker in Middelburg CBD and find 16 000 litres of diesel with no papers

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21 months of marching, then Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma tells Durban: vote out the ANC

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How a protest march gets stopped: the interdict, the route and the right to march

NEWS BRIEF News

Charges collapse against crime intelligence officer Ismail Dawood

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Tavern fight over a girlfriend ends in a knife killing. Bloemfontein court gives Mpho Maila 10 years

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Man, 66, gets life for raping 11-year-old girl in Wesselsbron

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March and March tells Durban crowd: don't vote ANC on November 4

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Seven in the dock over R1.1m UIF fraud as Hawks probe Gqeberha claims mill

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Durban and Soweto burn as anti-migrant marches spread, Ramaphosa sends 510 soldiers to KwaZulu-Natal

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Rifle seized, 32-year-old arrested as rhino poachers flee into the bush near Seven Fountains

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DA ward candidate shot dead at his door in Zamdela as police hunt two gunmen

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Six Post Office workers, one fake judgment: how a CCMA case can be built on case law that does not exist

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