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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.

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Sea Point drink-driver caught after sunset chase as 474 held in one week

City enforcement units chased down a suspected drunk driver in Sea Point during a sunset park-off event, one of 474 arrests recorded across the metro in a single week.

Precious Mthembu · 20 Oct 2026

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Phoenix residents take the anti-immigration fight to their own streets as fewer than 30 turn out for the plan

Voice of Phoenix joined the March and March movement at a Saturday community meeting in Phoenix, where residents pressed concerns about school places, hiring and undocumented migration. Fewer than 30 people attended.

19 Oct 2026

Earlier from Precious Mthembu

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Precious Mthembu

Sea Point drink-driver caught after sunset chase as 474 held in one week

Phoenix residents take the anti-immigration fight to their own streets as fewer than 30 turn out for the plan

Earlier from Precious Mthembu

Mpumalanga pupils take withheld matric results fight to the Constitutional Court

Lions lock Hyron Andrews dies in France during Champions Cup tour

Hawks swoop on suspected Med-Lemon lab in Rondebosch, 42-year-old arrested

Tavern argument ends in a shooting, and 10 years in prison for Thabang Nkwe

Nearly 200 people held in chains at Mpumalanga rehab centre, pastor and wife arrested

Hawks shut down med-lemon lab in Rondebosch, arrest one suspect

How the state's protest powers actually work: who can be arrested, what the law requires, and what happens next

Thirty arrests and a standing deployment: how the state's protest machinery actually works

R15m in mandrax off Cape Town streets as two courts deal with the fallout

Police seize 207kg of gold-bearing rock in Free State illegal mining raids, 14 arrested

Soweto drug lab found in family home as four arrested

Lions lock Hyron Andrews dies at team hotel before Champions Cup opener in La Rochelle

Pensioners tell SASSA R2 400 is not enough, push for R6 000 a month

March and March denies Durban CBD violence as state fights bail for parolee Wandile Nsibande

Hawks sell Mpumalanga drug farm for R4 million as court moves on stock theft bakkie

Pastor and wife dump bail, third accused fights to get out as court waits

Gunmen kill two ANC campaigners in Umgababa, KwaZulu-Natal

Three gunmen open fire on ANC door-to-door campaigners in Umgababa, killing two

30 arrests, 25 in KwaZulu-Natal: Durban and Soweto stay under police deployment after immigration protests

Gqeberha funeral policy murder: police arrest 37-year-old at his workplace

Lottery-funded NPO was empty, director convicted of R700,000 fraud

Two masked men fled Wish restaurant after the shots that killed AKA and Tibz, eyewitnesses tell Durban court

Gunman opens fire on ANC members walking home from memorial, four dead in Katlehong