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☆ South African police discover multimillion-dollar meth lab on farm
  + stars: | 2024-07-20 | by ( Amarachi Orie | Nimi Princewill | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +2 min
CNN —Police in South Africa arrested four people including two Mexican nationals after uncovering a multimillion-dollar drug manufacturing lab on a farm in the country’s north. After searching four structures on the property, police found large quantities of chemicals used to make illicit drugs including acetone and crystal meth, with an estimated street value of 2 billion South African rand ($109.4 million). Police found large quantities of chemicals used to make illicit drugs including acetone and crystal meth. South African Police ServiceThe four suspects detained on Friday include the farm owner and two Mexican nationals, the police service said, adding that the Hawks are not ruling out the possibility of further arrests. The suspects will appear at Groblersdal Magistrate’s court on Monday on charges of manufacturing, dealing and possessing illicit drugs, according to the police service.
Persons: SAPS, ” Katlego Organizations: CNN — Police, South African Police Service, Police, African Police Service, Hawks, Reuters, Global, Transnational, United Nations Office, Drugs Locations: South Africa, Groblersdal, ”
☆ South Africa crime wave: This cash van guard is just one of the victims
  + stars: | 2024-03-27 | by ( David Mckenzie | Sarah Dean | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +9 min
Johannesburg, South Africa CNN —For South Africans, normality is a sliding scale. In October, a heavily armed gang blocked off one of the busiest highways near Johannesburg as it blew up a cash-in-transit vehicle – a security van carrying cash. Cash-in-transit, or CIT, heists are one of the most dramatic illustrations of a crime wave that has shocked even the most hardened South Africans. His argument is not entirely factual: crime affects South Africans from all walks of life, not just those earning a comfortable living. The South African police minister, Bheki Cele, recently highlighted what he called the successes of the Crime Intelligence division in tackling organized crime and rooting out corruption within the ranks of the force.
Persons: Nelson Mandela, ”, Byron Blunt, Ngwenya, —, “, Petrus Mthembu, SAPS, Athlenda Mathe, Bheki Cele, Joe van der Walt, Esa Alexander, Gareth Newham, What’s Organizations: South Africa CNN, heists, CIT heists, National Congress, ANC, CNN, “, CIT, Motor Transport Workers Union, South African Police Service, Reuters, Hawks, AK, South, Crime Intelligence, Focus Group, ” Police, Town, Private Security Industry Regulatory Authority, Institute for Security Studies Locations: Johannesburg, South Africa, Africa, R350,000, Makhado, Limpopo, Cape Town , South Africa
☆ South Africa’s Transport Minister and bodyguards robbed at gunpoint
  + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Sarah Dean | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +1 min
Johannesburg CNN —South Africa’s transport minister and her bodyguards were robbed at gunpoint on Monday, according to the South African Police Service (SAPS). Minister Sindisiwe Chikunga was travelling on the N3 highway between Vosloorus and Heidelberg, south of Johannesburg, on Monday when the incident took place, police said. She was inside the car while her bodyguards changed the tire. A manhunt has been launched following the incident and the victims are receiving support and counseling, SAPS said. South Africa has long grappled with gun violence, with several mass shootings reported this year.
Persons: Sindisiwe Chikunga, ” Chikunga, ” SAPS, SAPS Organizations: Johannesburg CNN, South African Police Service Locations: Johannesburg, Vosloorus, Heidelberg, South Africa, KwaZulu, Natal province
☆ South African police say 18 suspected robbers killed in shootout
  + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
A view shows a crime scene after at least 18 cash-in-transit robbers were shot and killed during a shootout with a specialised airborne police unit in Makhado, Limpopo, South Africa September 1, 2023. South African Police Service/Handout via REUTERS Acquire Licensing RightsJOHANNESBURG, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Eighteen suspected robbers were shot and killed during a shootout with South African police in the Limpopo province, the police said on Friday. "We do believe this syndicate has been involved in a number of CITs in this province, Mpumalanga and Gauteng," Masemola said. One police officer was injured in the shootout, which lasted about 90 minutes, he added. Reporting by Bhargav Acharya; Editing by Alexander WinningOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Persons: Fannie Masemola, Masemola, Bhargav Acharya, Alexander Winning Organizations: South African Police Service, REUTERS Acquire, Rights, South, Thomson Locations: Makhado, Limpopo, South Africa, Rights JOHANNESBURG, South Africa's, Mpumalanga, Gauteng
☆ More than 60 dead as fire engulfs building in South Africa's Johannesburg
  + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +1 min
South African firefighters and South African Police Service officers work at the sceen of a fire in Johannesburg on August 31, 2023At least 63 people were killed and 43 injured on Thursday in a fire in the central business district of South Africa's biggest city of Johannesburg, the municipal government said. Search and rescue efforts were going on, the city administration said on the platform X, formerly known as Twitter. "The City of Johannesburg Emergency Management Services can confirm that the number of fatalities has gone up to 63," it said. Firefighters and emergency vehicles were at the scene, while bodies lay covered in emergency blankets on a street near the site of the early morning blaze, Reuters photographs showed. Media said the fire engulfed a five-storey building that had been abandoned at one stage but where people had been living.
Organizations: South African Police Service, Johannesburg Emergency Management Services, Firefighters, Media Locations: Johannesburg, South Africa's, City
☆ At Least 16 Are Killed in Suspected Gas Leak in South Africa
  + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( The New York Times | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
JOHANNESBURG — At least 16 people were killed in a gas leak at an informal housing encampment on the outskirts of Johannesburg, the police said on Wednesday. An emergency official said the deaths resulted from a leak in a cylinder of gas at the encampment, called the Angelo informal settlement, near the district of Boksburg in Gauteng Province. The South African Police Service said two other people were taken to the hospital for treatment, according to The Associated Press. Emergency services officials initially said that as many as 24 people had died, but later revised the death toll. A spokesman for the emergency services, William Ntladi, told local news outlets that officials had received a call about an explosion about 8 p.m. local time, but found instead that there had been a leak.
Persons: Angelo, William Ntladi Organizations: South African Police Service, Associated Press Locations: JOHANNESBURG, Johannesburg, Boksburg, Gauteng Province
☆ South Africa: 10 family members killed in mass shooting
  + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( David Mckenzie Nimi Princewill | David Mckenzie | Nimi Princewill | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +1 min
CNN —Ten members from the same family, including seven women and three men, were killed by gunmen Friday in the city of Pietermaritzburg, in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) province of South Africa, police said Friday. The mayor of the area told local media that they needed to bolster capacity of local police stations. South Africa has been rocked by several mass shootings in recent months – some, say police, are related to taxi business violence while others appear to be linked to drug cartels. South Africa has one of the highest murder rates in the world, according to police statistics. Four other people were killed in a separate shooting incident in a bar in Pietermaritzburg on the same evening.
☆ South Africa’s energy crisis poses ‘existential threat’ to its economy
  + stars: | 2023-02-10 | by ( Jessie Gretener Olesya Dmitracova | Jessie Gretener | Olesya Dmitracova | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +3 min
London CNN —South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has declared a national state of disaster in response to the country’s drawn-out energy crisis, calling it “an existential threat” to Africa’s most developed economy. Blackouts in South Africa — or load-shedding as they’re known locally — have been lasting for as long as 12 hours a day. Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg/Getty ImagesRamaphosa said Thursday that the national state of disaster would begin with immediate effect. Eskom has very little backup power, which makes it difficult to take units offline to perform crucial maintenance work. Years of mismanagement and systematic corruption are believed to be the key reasons why Eskom has been unable to keep the lights on.
☆ Eight killed in mass shooting at birthday party in South Africa
  + stars: | 2023-01-30 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
JOHANNESBURG, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Gunmen killed eight people and wounded three others at a birthday party in South Africa's Eastern Cape province, police said, adding that manhunt was underway to find the killers. The latest incident follows a spate of mass shootings last year that shocked the nation. In July, gunmen killed 19 people in random shootings within hours of each other. South Africa has one of the world's highest murder rates, with around 20,000 people killed every year out of a population of 60 million. According to campaign group Gun Free South Africa, there are about 3 million guns registered in the country, though there are many more unregistered.
☆ South Africa energy blackouts: Ramaphosa skips Davos to tackle crisis
  + stars: | 2023-01-18 | by ( Hanna Ziady | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +9 min
London CNN —South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa was forced this week to cancel a trip to Davos by an escalating energy crisis that is inflicting rolling blackouts on the continent’s most developed economy. At peak times, demand in South Africa averages between 28,000 MW and 34,000 MW. Electricity theft, including by impoverished townships in South Africa, and non-payment by municipal customers have made matters worse. Despite an abundance of sunshine and wind, South Africa still derives about 80% of its electricity from coal. South Africa’s National Energy Crisis Committee, a body run out of Ramaphosa’s office, has proposed several measures to ease the crisis in the short term, including importing energy from neighboring countries and buying excess energy from private producers.
☆ South Africa's president says energy workers face so much danger that some wear bulletproof vests to work, days after a prominent CEO's poisoning was revealed
  + stars: | 2023-01-13 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
South Africa's energy sector has been rocked by the poisoning of the CEO of its biggest provider. Eskom's CEO Andre De Ruyter had been leading a crackdown on corruption in South African energy. South Africa's president said this week that some managers in the sector wear bulletproof vests to work. His wife also has two protectors and his children go to school with protectors as well," Ramaphosa said in the address without identifying who the manager is, per South Africa's Times newspaper. Such thefts, De Ruyter said, have a major impact on the energy available in South Africa, which has faced rolling blackouts in recent years.
☆ The CEO of an African energy giant was poisoned with cyanide slipped into his coffee, just days after he resigned
  + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
The CEO of South Africa's biggest energy company, Eskom, was poisoned in December, the firm said. Numerous reports say CEO Andre De Ruyter had cyanide slipped into his coffee at the company's HQ. After drinking the coffee, De Ruyter became "weak, dizzy, and confused," EE Business Intelligence reported, citing an unnamed source. "This attempt on his life will be thoroughly investigated and those responsible must be charged," Pravin Gordhan, the government minister overseeing South Africa's energy sector told the Financial Times. Since taking over as CEO of Eskom, De Ruyter has attempted to crack down on corruption within South Africa's energy sector, EE Business Intelligence reported.
☆ South African utility says police are investigating the alleged poisoning of its CEO
  + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +1 min
Andre de Ruyter, chief executive officer of Eskom Holdings, at a conference in October 2022. South African power utility Eskom on Sunday said police were investigating whether an attempt was made to poison its outgoing Chief Executive Officer Andre de Ruyter. Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan also told Reuters on Sunday the alleged incident "will be thoroughly investigated" and anyone responsible charged. The alleged cyanide poisoning was first reported by specialist energy publication EE Business Intelligence on Saturday. The South African police services did not immediately respond to Reuters' request for comment.
☆ South Africa’s Eskom says police investigating alleged poisoning of CEO
  + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +1 min
Cape Town Reuters —South African power utility Eskom on Sunday said police were investigating whether an attempt was made to poison its outgoing chief executive officer, Andre de Ruyter. Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan also told Reuters on Sunday the alleged incident “will be thoroughly investigated” and anyone responsible charged. After officially taking charge in January 2020, De Ruyter led a company-wide clampdown on corruption and organized criminal behavior, including sabotage of infrastructure, at Eskom plants. “Eskom cannot comment further on the poisoning incident involving the group chief executive, which occurred during December 2022, as the matter is subject to police investigation,” the utility’s head of security said in a statement. The alleged cyanide poisoning was first reported by specialist energy publication EE Business Intelligence on Saturday.
☆ South Africa's Eskom says police investigating alleged poisoning of CEO
  + stars: | 2023-01-08 | by ( Wendell Roelf | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan also told Reuters on Sunday the alleged incident "will be thoroughly investigated" and anyone responsible charged. Faced with political pressure, De Ruyter resigned on Dec. 14 after failing to solve a crisis in Eskom that has led to record power cuts in Africa's most industrialised economy. After officially taking office in January 2020, De Ruyter led a company-wide clampdown on corruption and organised criminal behaviour, including sabotage of infrastructure, at Eskom plants. The alleged cyanide poisoning was first reported by specialist energy publication EE Business Intelligence on Saturday. Reporting by Wendell Roelf in Cape Town and Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo; editing by Barbara LewisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
☆ China operating over 100 police stations across the world with the help of some host nations, report claims
  + stars: | 2022-12-04 | by ( Nina Dos Santos | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +11 min
Madrid-based human rights campaigner Safeguard Defenders says it found evidence China was operating 48 additional police stations abroad since the group first revealed the existence of 54 such stations in September. When approached by CNN last month about Safeguard Defenders’ original allegations, China’s foreign affairs ministry said the overseas stations were staffed by volunteers. However, the organization’s latest report claims one police network it examined had hired 135 people for its first 21 stations. The organization also sourced a three-year contract for a worker hired at an overseas station in Stockholm. The NGO determines Italy has hosted 11 Chinese police stations, including in Venice and in Prato, near Florence.
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