The South African Enquirer

Sipho Mahlangu

Sipho Mahlangu is the Chief Reporter and covers the police, the courts and the crime beat, including the cases that go quiet and the charges that do not hold.

Missing Keimoes woman, 44, found in a shallow grave near the river as police arrest a 32-year-old man

A 44-year-old woman from Keimoes was reported missing on Friday, 23 October 2026. Police are investigating her death as murder after her body was found in a shallow grave near the river in Currieskamp.

Sipho Mahlangu · 28 Oct 2026

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R14.4m of your rates went to the repatriation buses, and Musina carried the rest

Minister Leon Schreiber's written reply to MK Party MP Siyabonga Mkhize sets out R341m on repatriation, R122m on detention and 37,942 people deported between January and August. The numbers land on metros whose residents were already asking who pays for enforcement.

28 Oct 2026

Earlier from Sipho Mahlangu

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Sipho Mahlangu

Missing Keimoes woman, 44, found in a shallow grave near the river as police arrest a 32-year-old man

R14.4m of your rates went to the repatriation buses, and Musina carried the rest

Earlier from Sipho Mahlangu

Taxi driver offers a traffic officer cash, walks out of court with a suspended fine

Two Home Affairs clerks and a civilian in court over South African passports given to 10 Pakistani nationals

Six arrested as police seize raw gold, R18 600 cash and mining gear in Mpumalanga

Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma calls Ramaphosa a would-be dictator as Ekurhuleni murders go unanswered

Police block March and March at Berea as Durban marchers demand action over motorcycle attack

Six Post Office workers sent into arbitration on a court judgment that does not exist

Ficksburg police arrest 22-year-old man for murder of Mophinia Molise, 49, found in her yard

Six Post Office workers lose their day in court after a commissioner cited a judgment that does not exist

Army sent to KwaZulu-Natal as asylum ruling unrest builds toward the 4 November vote

Police arrest Simphiwe Dennis Manana in Fourways

Ian Berry, the only photographer at Sharpeville when the shooting started, dies at 92

Ian Berry, the photographer who stood inside Sharpeville, dies at 92

Naturena parents shut down outside primary school over Grade 4 boys' abuse claims, demand principal goes

Man who stabbed girlfriend in the head during a fight over food is jailed for ten years

Eastern Cape police officer shoots his wife three times, then turns his service pistol on himself

Father and two children ambushed reversing out of Pinetown driveway as gunman opens fire

Two Grootvlei farm attackers get 20 years each for murder of 68-year-old farmer

Mother gets two life terms for poisoning her two children

Mandrax worth R16,000 seized in Steinkopf as police arrest two men

Stellenbosch student, 19, fights burns after fire set under his bedroom door

Tshwane faces criminal case as 430 people, most of them children, are hospitalised by contaminated water

Life terms for man who raped his ex-girlfriend's four-year-old and left her for dead on a shack roof

Nine arrested in Chatsworth swoop, and police say they found the murder gun