LOCAL The Human Science Research Council (HSRC) says there’s more evidence now that the number of car hijackings in South Africa is much higher than it has ever been. The HSRC study found that there has been a dramatic increase in the number of cars being hijacked in the last year. At the same time, the study also discovered that only 27% of people trust the police to get some […]
Home Affairs Deputy Minister Njabulo Nzuza was hijacked at gunpoint on Thursday, police spokesperson Brigadier Vish Naidoo has said in a statement. The deputy minister was hijacked at approximately 16:25 by two gunmen. According to Naidoo, Nzuza was driving from a shopping centre in Midrand when he was followed and stopped by men driving in a blue VW GTI Golf with flashing blue lights. "Two men carrying handguns approached the […]
Hijackers have stolen a Cape Town traffic official's car early on Tuesday morning and then used it to hijack another vehicle, while hours later the official car of an officer from the City's Law Enforcement unit was also hijacked. One of Cape Town's Law Enforcement (LE) unit officers was hijacked in Nyanga East on Tuesday morning as he was leaving for work, the City's LE spokesperson Wayne Dyason said. The […]
VOC became the first Muslim radio station in South Africa when a special events license was granted to the station in Ramadan/January 1995. Subsequent temporary broadcast licenses were granted, permitting the station to broadcast for 24 hours.
