East rand
At least 1 person wounded in East Rand shootings
It has emerged that a security guard was wounded while disturbing robbers trying to steal a vehicle at the Key West Shopping Centre in Bedfordview.
Staff members were held at gunpoint on Monday afternoon and the gang got away with valuable jewelry.
This, in light of Laticia Jansen's death. The pupil was stabbed and burnt to death in Elsburg on the East Rand last week.
A group of protesters took to the streets on Wednesday and ransacked shops at the Sontonga Mall.
Gauteng police spokesperson Brigadier Mathapelo Peters has urged parents not pay any ransom should they fall victim to the criminals.
It’s understood officers received information that drugs were being manufactured at a house in Sebenza on Wednesday.
The East Rand police are appealing to the public for any information of five illegal miner bodies which were near an old min in Boksburg
It’s understood a gunman opened fire on a vehicle on Thursday morning with three occupants, which left two security guards dead.
The teenager was released into the care of his parents on Tuesday after his arrest.
Ekurhuleni Metro Police say the man was arrested on Friday following a tip-off from the community.
The women were murdered, and another seriously wounded, at an informal settlement near Daveyton on the East Rand.
At least three armed men targetted the Kung Fu Kitchen outlet on Harrison Street in Eden Glen on Sunday.
The four men and one woman were found dead on the scene by paramedics on Thursday morning.
Police are investigating the circumstances around a brazen cash-in-transit heist on the East Rand.
Three weeks ago the same community took to the streets and accused the municipality of allocating RDP houses to foreigners.
Police say community members have grouped together and barricaded sections of the township with burning tyres and stones.
It’s not yet clear what residents’ demands are but several roads have been barricaded with burning rubble & tyres.
Six others were injured and have been transported to hospital.
Two EWN reporters posing as a same-sex couple were denied entry at the Lake Restaurant in Brakpan on Thursday.