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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.

Dennilton man who faked a hospital job letter gets 25 years for raping a job seeker and a 13-year-old girl

The court heard that Chikumba used a fraudulent Kwa Mhlanga Hospital employment letter to lure a 21-year-old woman, and later approached a 13-year-old girl while out on bail. DNA evidence linked him to the second attack.

Precious Mthembu · 15 Oct 2026

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30 arrested as police stay deployed in Durban and Joburg hotspots after immigration protests

The National Joint Operational and Intelligence Structure has confirmed that police deployments will stay in Durban and Johannesburg hotspots following days of protest over undocumented immigration. The arrests are the only part of the story the state has put on the record, and most of the questions that matter to the people living in those areas remain unanswered.

14 Oct 2026

Earlier from Precious Mthembu

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Dennilton man who faked a hospital job letter gets 25 years for raping a job seeker and a 13-year-old girl

30 arrested as police stay deployed in Durban and Joburg hotspots after immigration protests

Earlier from Precious Mthembu

30 arrested, no names, no ages, no status: what we still don't know about the protest arrests

What happens to the 30 arrested in Durban and Soweto, and who decides

30 arrested as anti-immigration protests hit Durban and Soweto

30 arrested after Durban and Joburg immigration protests, and the record still cannot say who they are

30 arrested as police stay in Durban and Joburg hotspots after anti-immigration protests

Soweto and Durban traders count the cost as 30 arrests follow anti-immigration protests

30 arrests, two provinces, one structure: how NATJOINTS turns a protest into a police operation

Durban residents hid in their homes as a crowd burned a scrapyard and 19 were arrested

Seshego Hospital substation stripped for copper as patients face the dark

Durban scrapyard burns as residents flee, 19 in court and the asylum directive is already gone

Kestell man gets life for murdering wife, court hears he beat her with a blunt object and slept beside her

30 arrests, no names, no firearm answer: what NATJOINTS is not telling South Africa after the Durban and Soweto protests

Las Vegas judge sends Duane Davis to 40 years to life for Tupac Shakur's 1996 murder

Six arrests, 560kg of Transnet cable: how the copper pipeline gets caught

Katlehong North shooting: two more die, death toll now four

Soweto and Durban residents demanded an end to undocumented immigration. The state answered with 30 arrests.

Police seize expired medicine from street vendor at Nyanga taxi rank

Durban and Soweto rise over illegal immigration as 30 are held and nobody will say who they are

How the police actually shut down a protest: the law, the arrests, and what happens next

Durban counts the cost after week of anti-immigration protests

Soweto and Durban traders count the cost as 30 arrests follow this week's anti-immigration protests

Soweto and Durban residents demand action on undocumented immigration as 30 arrested in protest crackdown

30 arrests after Durban and Joburg street clashes, and police still will not say who they are