The South African Enquirer

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.

Ramaphosa sends 510 soldiers to KwaZulu-Natal as anti-immigration protests build before the 4 November vote

Half a thousand soldiers are on standby to back police in KwaZulu-Natal through the local government elections, after a July asylum ruling, overwhelmed Home Affairs offices and a policy reversal set off a public fight over enforcement.

Precious Mthembu · 27 Oct 2026

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Councillor candidate, 49, arrested in Dassenhoek with unlicenced gun days before local elections

Police acted on a tip-off about a man with a firearm and found the suspect at a residence in Dassenhoek. SAPS says preliminary investigations show he is a councillor candidate for an upcoming Local Government Elections.

27 Oct 2026

Earlier from Precious Mthembu

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Precious Mthembu

Ramaphosa sends 510 soldiers to KwaZulu-Natal as anti-immigration protests build before the 4 November vote

Councillor candidate, 49, arrested in Dassenhoek with unlicenced gun days before local elections

Earlier from Precious Mthembu

Life for two Lesotho nationals who shot dead two men at Maseru Bridge taxi rank

Free State principal suspended after matric pupil turned away from English exam over unpaid fees

Ten robbers, 235 years: KwaZulu-Natal chain stores left with R8.1 million bill

Bellville court sends Aletta Rose for 30-day mental observation over sister's beheading

Woman accused of faking her own kidnapping to squeeze R40,000 from her family

Fort Hare fires vice-chancellor two days before he was due to leave

Soweto mother fights to keep accused teacher behind bars as Grade 4 rape case grips the school

Woman accused of faking her own kidnapping after her family could not pay the R40 000 ransom

Beitbridge police seize two cars bound for Malawi, three accused in Musina court on theft and fraud charges

School rape accused was known to the child, mother tells eNCA, as she demands background checks on teachers

SAPS opens police recruitment to all South Africans aged 18 to 35, applications close 13 November

Police trace and arrest 45-year-old suspect in Hoopstad stabbing death of Isaac Moeketsi Veldskoon

A man beaten to death on Dr Pixley kaSeme Street: Durban wants answers, and the police want names

A killing on Dr Pixley kaSeme Street: Durban traders lose a day as police hunt the crowd

Two innocent men waited 24 years for a pardon. The Constitutional Court says four presidents failed them

Tshwane taps ran three weeks without chlorine, and 408 people fell ill, most of them under four

Man who stabbed a grandfather to death gets 15 years

Temba residents hand over theft suspect, 100m of netting and a gun

Tshwane sent Bronkhorstspruit three weeks of unchlorinated water drawn from a sewage-heavy river

Six taillight theft charges for Mozambican man as Rustenburg bakkie owners count the cost

30 arrested as Durban and Soweto immigration protests expose a state that cannot say who it is holding

Cold case detectives arrest former police general after 100 rounds of SAPS ammunition found at Centurion home

Former police general arrested over SAPS-issued ammunition as Mfazi murder probe widens