Fifty-three former combatants face kidnapping charges, among others, after Ministers Thandi Modise, Mondli Gungubele and Deputy Minister Thabang Makwetla were barred from leaving the Saint George’s Hotel in Irene last Thursday.
Fifty-two suspects have appeared in the Pretoria Magistrates Court sitting at the Kgosi Mampuru Correctional Facility.
The disbanded uMkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans' Association has accused the presidential task team of exacerbated divisions among military veterans.
They were arrested on Thursday night taking hostage minister Thandi Modise, her deputy Thabang Makwetla and the Minister in the Presidency Mondli Gungubele hostage at the Saint George’s hotel.
A lobby group called the Federation for Radical Economic Transformation (FFRET) which is accused of holding the KZN Health HOD 'hostage' says it is tired of tenders being mostly awarded to Indians.
Police have resolved a hostage crisis at a high-security jail on the outskirts of the capital, Jakarta, after nearly all the Islamist prisoners involved had surrendered.
Television footage showed police and parked police cars outside a two story white-and-yellow building in the northeastern city.
Officials say that at least two suspects hijacked the cops near a shopping mall in the Midrand area on Tuesday morning.
Security officials said the suicide attacker had rammed the explosive-laden car into the hotel’s entrance before gunmen stormed the restaurant.
Lichtenburg residents held the mayor against his will at a municipal building on Thursday, demanding answers to their service delivery grievances.
Police spokesperson in the North West Sabata Mokgwabone says they are trying to ascertain the reason for the hostage situation.
Employees at a Phalaborwa copper mine say Amcu members are refusing to allow them to leave the premises over a wage dispute with the company.
The woman was rescued on Sunday after officers stopped a car in Mitchell, a small rural town more than 550 km west of the Queensland.
The man allegedly took an overdose of drugs in an attempt to commit suicide on Wednesday.
It’s alleged the suspect, who is now in hospital under heavy police guard, overdosed on pills in an attempt to commit suicide.
While the details surrounding the incident are still unclear, a man was believed to have been armed with a knife.
ER24 says it’s on the scene of what appears to be a hostage situation in Randburg.
