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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

Durban and Soweto residents demand action on undocumented migration as 30 held after week of protest

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Sibiya case postponed to 13 October as suspended deputy police commissioner stays off duty

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Zuma admitted to hospital after Umsinga campaign trail, MK Party source says

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Sassa paid R1.33bn to people who should not have got grants, down R1bn on last year

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SASSA paid R1.33bn to dead people, state workers and invalid IDs

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Sangoma who beheaded a client gets life, four years after a family quarrel broke the silence

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Three Horrible gang members get life for seven Elsies River murders

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Police vow arrests after 24 cars torched outside Home Affairs offices in Soweto and Durban

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Home Affairs withdraws asylum directive after court ruling floods refugee offices

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Police recorded 17 trafficking-linked kidnappings in three months, nine of them in Gauteng

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Navi Pillay wins the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, and Durban is where it started

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SASSA tells grant beneficiaries: tell us when your life changes

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Navi Pillay wins the Nobel Peace Prize, and South Africa has a stake in it

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Home Affairs pulls asylum intake directive, leaving reception offices to be rebuilt around a court order

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Home Affairs withdraws asylum directive after 24 cars torched in Durban and Soweto

NEWS BRIEF News

Nineteen arrested in Durban as looted shops burn and the MTN8 final kicks off anyway

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Asylum in South Africa: what the process actually requires, and who decides

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SASSA tightens grant reviews and biometric checks as fraud scrutiny mounts

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US resettled 10,258 refugees in a year. All but three were white South Africans

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Home Affairs withdraws asylum directive after 24 vehicles torched in Durban and Soweto

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Shanela week: 18 488 arrests, a R110m mandrax lab and six extradited to the US

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The US resettled 10,258 refugees this year. All but three were white South Africans

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Springboks edge All Blacks 29-24 in Soweto to lead series 2-1

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