Pretoria
6 people wounded, one of them critical, in Pretoria taxi rank shooting
The circumstances around Friday morning's crime are not yet clear but police are on the scene to investigate.
The Correctional Services Department has identified the escapees as Thabo Muyambo, a Mozambican national who's serving a life sentence for a string of crimes including rape, robbery and kidnapping.
He abused her between 2014 and 2016 when the girl and her brother were left in his care while family members were at work.
She’s since had an abortion at a state hospital.
Several patrons at Propaganda Nightclub were trapped under the debris on Saturday night.
The party had approached the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) wanting to overturn the decision to restore the council, which had been dissolved and replaced by an administrator.
Workers marched through the Pretoria CBD most of the day to register their discontent with the current state of the economy, lack of an efficient public transport system and non-payment of public sector wage increases, among other issues.
The union's leader Zingiswa Losi applauded workers belonging to different federations in the country for Wednesday’s historic show of strength by uniting as they protested nationally.
At least 41 people, including several police officers, face charges of money laundering, corruption and theft.
Technicians are now on-site to establish what went wrong.
Three officials had to be hospitalised after police exchanged fire with criminals outside the forensic pathology services of the Tshwane District Hospital.
The Gauteng tactic response team unit responded to crime in Atteridgeville on Monday night where three suspects were robbing a shop.
Gauteng police spokesperson Kay Makhubule said that police were still searching for the suspect who allegedly killed his 42-year-old girlfriend and left her body in an outside room.
The men were killed in Mabopane, north of the capital, on Thursday.
The automotive industry was allowed partial reopening under level four on condition that strict COVID-19 preventative measures are taken at companies.
A 23-year-old man from Lyttelton was arrested over the weekend after he filmed himself defying the lockdown and boasting about wanting to buy drugs.
Paramedics were called to the house in Kameeldrift on Monday night, where they found the young boy unresponsive.
It's understood there was an altercation between two men this on Monday afternoon in the parking lot.
The police arrested the suspect on Tuesday at a property in Centurion, where the weapons, as well as a marijuana cultivating operation, were discovered.