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Pretoria Becomes Globalist Sh*thole as Nigerians, Drugs & Taxi Driver Wars Plunge CBD Into Chaos (VIDEO)

Drugs & Taxi Drivers were blamed for CBD being plunged into chaos – shops looted, buildings set on fire and public transport suspended in South Africa’s Capital City.

Taxi drivers took to the streets in Pretoria after one of their “colleagues” was apparently killed by a Nigerian who was apparently selling drugs. They allegedly set the buildings where the Nigerian “businesses” were operating from, on fire and then hijacked a truck, which was used to block an intersection to prevent the fire trucks from getting to the fire.

The killing of the taxi driver is believed to have started these riots in the CBD. The situation left bus commuters stranded after the city temporarily suspended its bus services for safety reasons.

Several foreign stores were looted and a building was set alight.

Police had to chase rioters with rubber bullets who prevented the firefighters from reaching the scene.

 

Watch at: https://youtu.be/FuR1mc2xxrc

The police system is also broken and rotten to the core and there were accusations of police taking money from drug dealers and claims made that the murderer will never be brought to justice as Police are on drug dealer’s payroll.

However, Pretoria Mayor Stephens Mokgalapa disapproved of the action, saying that retaliatory crimes would not be tolerated. Passers-by were hit with bottles and stones and even media representatives who are more and more being seen as “fake news” were greeted with aggression.

Pretoria’s city center has been plunged into chaos for the past two days now, and people are advised to avoid that part of the city.

Taxi owners, businesspeople and residents who experienced the chaos in Pretoria say the police’s poor behaviour and careless attitude were worse than the criminal elements.

A taxi driver told the media that South Africa will never get out of the mess as long as he is satisfied with the poor police service, especially because they are worse than the criminals.

Another person pointed out that over the past six years, he has witnessed police mistreating innocent people while the guilty elements are shot-free.

Police have repeatedly ripped the crowd apart with rubber bullets over the past few days, injuring people who have no connection to the riotous fighting in the streets of Pretoria.


 

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Centurion residents taught how to avoid driveway hijackings by RICHARD BRUSSOW of the National Hijack Prevention Academy

Centurion residents were on Saturday taught about how to avoid becoming victims of hijackings in driveways.

This was during a workshop at Laerskool Louis Leipoldt in Lyttelton, where former police officer Richard Brussow spoke to them about prevention of crimes such as hijacking and robbery.

Brussow, who established the National Hijack Prevention Academy in 2001, said 68% of hijackings happened in driveways and could be avoided.

He has more than 15 years of experience in motor vehicle crime investigation, organized crime, motor vehicle theft, metro police crime prevention, and vehicle tracking.

Brussow educated his audience about tricks used by hijackers, their motivation, factors that lead to attacks and categories of hijacked vehicles.

Robbers liked using service stations as a base to prey on unsuspecting victims, he said. Once they had identified their victims they drove behind them until they arrived home.

Brussow advised motorists to always look at the car behind them to prevent the crime.

Those in attendance were also warned against inviting potential car buyers to their homes after they had advertised them online.

Rather, Brussow said, ask to meet them at a service station where there were CCTV cameras. He said sellers ought to carefully examine the buyers’ driving licenses to check if they were not fake.

They also needed to guard against receiving counterfeit cash from unscrupulous buyers.

Motorists must also be aware of a technique where criminals bumped into cars during rush hour with the intention to get them out of their vehicles, where they would be robbed. However, he said the technique was well known.

Robbers had slightly changed it by sending female drivers to bump into cars, hoping that drivers wouldn’t be scared to stop for inspecting the extent of the damage. “Just get a number plate and drive off,” warned Brussow.

-Pretoria News


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Two more suspects arrested in connection with Mamelodi pre-school robbery

Gauteng police have arrested two more suspects in connection with the robbery of international students at a pre-school in Mamelodi East, Pretoria, earlier this month.

According to police spokesperson Brigadier Mathapelo Peters, one of the suspects was arrested in Limpopo on Friday while the other was caught in Mpumalanga on Saturday.

Eighteen students and two professors from the US, who were on an outreach visit at the Viva Foundation School in Mamelodi East, were attacked and robbed by five armed suspects two weeks ago.

Service Maimela, 30, was arrested a few days later at the Pienaarspoort informal settlement in Mamelodi East. He appeared in the Mamelodi Magistrate’s Court last Monday on charges of robbery, attempted murder and assault.

The matter was postponed to Monday, May 27 for further investigations, said Peters.

Peters said the police were still processing the dockets of the two additional suspects, adding that they were most likely to appear in court along with Maimela.

“Both suspects are due in court on Monday 27 May 2019, pending confirmation of the court,” she said.

The US tourists were robbed of their laptops, cellphones, cameras, passports, plane tickets, bags and US dollars.

“The intelligence-driven operation will continue as police are optimistic that it is only a matter of time until the remaining suspects are arrested,” Peters said.

*news24


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Pretoria hijacking hotspots identified

Pretoria hijacking hotspots identified

With people getting ready for the upcoming holiday season, it is natural to be slightly more relaxed at this time of the year.

Relaxation mode, however, might be the worst thing to do while behind the wheel during the holiday and festive season.

Hijackings, common as they are, tend to happen more frequently during the festive season.

Motorists in and around the city are required to be more vigilant at all times to avoid becoming a statistic.

It is also advisable for motorists to familiarise themselves with hijacking hotspots.

Compiled by the SAPS, various tracking companies and the South African crime intelligence bureau, Pro-ActiveSA made an all-in-one list of hijacking hotspot areas.

Pro-ActiveSA said: “It will provide the reader with a visual overview of areas to be most aware of.”

Areas and streets prone to hijacking occurrences include:

– Es’kia Mphahlele Drive

– Paul Kruger Street

– R55

– Burnett Street

– Delfi Avenue and Garsfontein Road

– Stormvoel Road traffic lights

– Watermeyer Street traffic lights

– Nelson Mandela Drive

– Simon Vermooten Road and Lynnwood Road

– Lynnwood Road and Solomon Mahlangu Drive

– Justice Mahomed Street (Walker Street)

– Duncan Street

– Lynnwood Road and University Road

– Rigel Avenue and N1 off-ramp

– Pretoria Street and Simon Vermooten Road

– Simon Vermooten Road and Furrow Road

– Lynnwood Road and N1 off-ramp

– Solomon Mahlangu Drive and N4 off-ramp

– Solomon Mahlangu and R21 highway

– Atterbury Road and N1 off-ramp

– Pretorius Street traffic lights

– Francis Baard Street and Festival Street

Hereby we at SA-News give recognition to the author of this article Keitumetse Maako from Pretoria East Rekord.


 

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KFC-voorval: Drie in hof

Drie mans van Pretoria wat daarvan beskuldig word dat hulle ʼn egpaar in Montana aangerand het, het Vrydag in die landdroshof in Pretoria-Noord verskyn.

Landdros Motlhoki Rapulana het na die mans se aansoek om borgtog geluister en gesê sy het tyd nodig om die bewyse te bestudeer, voordat sy haar besluit op 30 Augustus bekend sal maak.

Staatsaanklaer Ronnie Sibanda voer aan die mans moet nie vrygelaat word nie, aangesien hul veiligheid nie gewaarborg is nie en ʼn gevoel van vrede in die gemeenskap ondermyn kan word. “Die aansoek om borgtog moet ook in die belang van die publiek wees, aangesien die voorval in die publieke arena plaasgevind het.”

Stephan Nel (39), Joshua Scholtz (21) en Dicky Junior van Rooyen (21) staan tereg op aanklagte van poging tot moord, aanranding met die doel om ernstig te beseer en die rig van ʼn vuurwapen. Hul een medebeskuldigde, Marius Harding (23), het sy aansoek om borgtog laat vaar en nog ʼn beskuldigde, Ockert Muller (20), se aansoek om borgtog is reeds goedgekeur.

Die mans word daarvan beskuldig dat hulle Jacob Sono en sy vrou Dudu op 2 Augustus by die KFC-deurrybaan in Montana, Pretoria, aangerand het. Video’s van die voorval is wyd op sosiale media versprei.

Konst. William Tladi, ʼn ondersoekbeampte in die saak, het vroeër tydens die aansoek om borgtog getuig en het aan die hof gesê Sono kon aan ʼn hartaanval gesterf het. Hy het gesê Sono se mond en ore het gebloei nadat hy by die kitskosrestaurant aangeval is. Hy was die tweede getuie om die borgtogaansoek van die mans teen te staan.

Tladi het aan die hof gesê beskuldigde nommer een, Stephan Nel, het by die toneel aangekom toe die bakleiery begin het, en hy het ʼn vuurwapen op Sono gerig voor hy hom saam met sy medebeskuldigdes geslaan het. “Dit is hoekom ek die borgtog teenstaan. ʼn Persoon kan sterf as jy hom teen die kop slaan.”

Adv. Francois Kriel, vir Schultz, voer aan Sono is vir ʼn knop op sy kop behandel en ʼn gebarste membraan in sy oor wat binne ʼn paar dae genees het. Hy hou vol die beserings was nie ernstig of lewensgevaarlik nie.

Tladi het aan die hof gesê die aanvallers het nie net die egpaar fisies aangeval nie, maar ook rassistiese uitlatings gemaak.

Daar is egter geen aanklagte wat met rassisme en crimen injuria verband hou op die klagstaat nie.

Nel se prokureur, Nols Nolte, het aan die hof gesê Tladi is nie vertroud met die besonderhede van die saak nie, en hy het net opdrag gekry om hof toe te kom en die borgtogaansoek teen te staan. Nolte wou weet waarom daar geen klag van crimen injuria is nie, indien Dudu Sono beledig is, aldus die polisie se weergawe.

Tladi het gesê hy het nie die klaers se verklarings geneem of die klagtes geformuleer nie. Hy het gesê hy het die dossier ontvang om ondersoek in te stel.

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Pretoria Commuters get some relief as Taxis expected to operate normally

Tshwane commuters can expect some relief as taxis are expected to operate normally this morning.

On Wednesday, operators blocked several roads causing massive delays while protesting to the Tshwane House to submit a memorandum to Mayor Solly Msimanga.

Among the issues raised by the drivers is that traffic contravention tickets be scrapped.

Taxis in the Tshwane area are expected to function without any hiccups at least for the next two weeks.

The Democratic Taxi Workers Union of South Africa (Detwusa)’s Themba Maseko says the government is responsible for providing taxi infrastructure, including pick-ups and drop offs.

He says drivers should not be fined for government’s failure.

“Our demands are the scrapping of the traffic fines because those fines block our PDPs and driver’s licenses and we can’t drive passengers without our PDPs.”

Maseko says the fines amount to hundreds of thousands of rands which prevent some drivers from renewing their public drivers’ licenses.

Detwusa has given the metro 14 days to respond to their queries or face yet another strike action.


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Inwoner van Pretoria voor haar verloofde geskiet wyl hy video neem

Carine van Staden (28), ʼn inwoner van Pretoria, is Donderdag voor haar verloofde glo deur ʼn weermaglid in die noorde van die stad geskiet.

Carine se pa, Johan van Staden (53), het Saterdag aan Maroela Media gesê sy dogter en haar verloofde, Johan Harmse (29), was omstreeks 18:00 van Daspoort op sy BMW-motorfiets op pad na vriende in Montana toe ʼn amptelike weermagvoertuig hulle naby Wonderboom Junction ligtelik getref het.

“Die voertuig, ʼn wit Audi, het weermagnommerplate gehad en ons het intussen vasgestel die jong man wat dit bestuur het, is glo ʼn drywer vir een van die generaals,” het Van Staden gesê.

“Die man het die motorfiets se voetrus getref waarop Carine se voete was en die man het toe net weggejaag,” het hy gesê.

Harmse het ʼn draagbare videokamera aan sy valhelm gehad, dit aangeskakel en die voertuig agterna gesit.

“Die verkeerslig by die hoek van Lavenderweg en Braam Pretoriusstraat was rooi en die man moes stilhou. Carine het afgeklim en hom genader om te hoor hoekom hy weggery het. Hy het bloot net sy deur oopgemaak en ’n pistool reguit in haar bors gedruk en haar ten aanskoue van haar verloofde en ander motoriste geskiet.”

Die man het daarna glo ook sy vuurwapen op Harmse, wat nog op sy motorfiets was, gerig voordat die verkeerslig groen geslaan en hy weggery het. Harmse se video van die voorval is aan die polisie as bewys oorhandig.

Carine is na die George Mukhari-hospitaal gehaas waar sy tans aansterk. “Die koeël het haar hart skrams gemis. Dit is deur haar linkerlong en agter haar rug uit. Haar long het platgeval, maar verder is geen ander organe beskadig nie. Sy is gelukkig ʼn sterk mens en is by haar positiewe. Sy is stabiel en dit gaan goed met haar onder die omstandighede.”

Harmse en Van Staden is ná haar opname na die Sinoville-polisiestasie om die voorval aan te meld. Dit was sowat ʼn uur en ʼn half ná die voorval. Die weermaglid was toe reeds daar en het, aldus Van Staden, aangevoer hy het gedink Carine wou hom kaap. Hy het nooit amptelik ʼn klag aanhangig gemaak nie.

Ao. Johan van Dyk, polisiewoordvoerder, het Saterdag aan Maroela Media bevestig aanvanklik is ʼn klag van die afvuur van ʼn vuurwapen in ʼn openbare gebied en roekelose en nalatige bestuur teen die man aanhangig gemaak voordat hy op waarskuwing vrygelaat is.

“Ons kan bevestig dat die saak intussen na ʼn poging tot moord verander is. Die polisie is besig met verdere ondersoek en is besig om almal se verklarings af te neem, waarna die dossier na die Nasionale Vervolgingsgesag verwys sal word om oor verdere stappe te besluit,” het Van Dyk gesê.

Dit is nie duidelik hoe lank dié prosedures gaan duur nie. Die weermaglid is nog nie in hegtenis geneem nie.

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Jong Pretoria verliefdes sterf saam in motorfiets ongeluk

Twee mense is dood en twee kritiek beseer toe ʼn motorfiets en ʼn Opel Kadett Saterdag in die vroeë oggendure in Pretoria gebots het.

Xander Loubser, woordvoerder van Best Care-ambulansdienste, het Saterdag aan Maroela Media gesê die botsing het in Mootstraat in Daspoort in die weste van die stad plaasgevind.

“Die oorsaak van die ongeluk is onbekend en word deur die polisie ondersoek. Twee mense wat op die motorfiets was, is op die toneel dood,” het Loubser gesê. Loubser kon nie dadelik hul ouderdomme bevestig nie, maar het wel gesê dat hulle ʼn jong man en vrou was.

Loubser het gesê twee insittendes in die Opel het kritieke beserings opgedoen en hulle was in die voertuig vasgekeer. Hulle is na die Steve Biko-hospitaal geneem nadat hulle uit die motor se wrak gesny is.

“ʼn Vrou, vermoedelik die bestuurder van die motor se ma is, het op die toneel inmekaargesak. Sy is ook na die hospitaal geneem aangesien sy beseer is toe sy geval het.”

Loubser het die brandweer en ander nooddienste vir hul bystand bedank. Hy het ook sy innige meegevoel met die oorledenes betuig.

Loubser en die plaaslike DA-raadslid, Elma Nel, het in ʼn video ʼn beroep op inwoners en motoriste gedoen om padreëls ten alle tye te gehoorsaam.

“Daar is veral probleme met motoriste wat te vinnig ry. Inwoners word aangemoedig om probleemgebiede aan ons uit te wys sodat daar byvoorbeeld plan gemaak kan word om spoedhobbels op te sit, of die hobbels wat vervalle is, oor te bou,” het Nel gesê.

Zanelle Grandly, een van die slagoffers se susters, het intussen die dood van haar suster op haar Facebook-blad bevestig.

“Ons wil graag ons familie en vriende wat naby en ver is laat weet dat my sussie, Lezette de Beer, vanoggend saam met Zhaan Smit dood is. Ons sal hulle geweldig mis en geen woord kan die groot verlies wat ons voel verduidelik nie. Ek sal altyd vir jou lief wees en jou nalatenskap lewendig hou,” het sy gesê.

Ria Nieudoudt, Zhaan se suster, het in ‘n huldeblyk aan hom geskryf: “My boetie jy is my lewe elke dag gewees hoe gaan ek sonder jou lewe. Blondie jy was deel van ons lewens. Ry die golden highway RIP.”

Lezette se laaste inskrywing op Facebook was Vrydag aan Zhaan gerig: “I have found my happy ever after, love you vrek mal my lief”.

 

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Protesting Pretoria West residents clash with cops – still unclear what the protest was about

Protesting Pretoria West residents clash with cops - still unclear what the protest was about

Pretoria – Close to a thousand protesting residents of Gomora informal settlement in Pretoria West have battled with police since the early hours of July 13, 2017 on Thursday morning.

Police fired hails of rubber bullets, dozens of tear gas canisters, and stun grenades in a bid to keep the hostile protesters at bay.
Protesters returned fire with slingshots and threw stones at police Nyalas and members of the Public Order Policing on the ground. They also chased after journalists, pelting them with stones.

It was still unclear what the protest was about, but they called for Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs MEC Paul Mashatile to address their issues.

“We are going to kill you guys,” a protester shouted.

Several roads were blocked with burning tyres and stones.

A police contact said that more than 1 000 protesters had caused “complete chaos” since the early hours of Thursday morning.

‘We are fed up’

Residents from Gomora have demanded that Mashatile address their issues of service delivery.

One resident who did not want to be named, said they were promised basic services such as electricity, tarred roads, water and sanitation.

“We are fed up and want the MEC who promised us service delivery,” said one resident.

Another said they have had many community meetings to find a way to get government to address their needs.

Police spokesperson Constable Tumisang Moloto said several roads were blocked and four cars and a truck were torched by protesting residents.

Source: News 24
Author: Alex Mitchley


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Dennis Haynes, vermis sedert 1986, word moontlik na 31 jaar opgespoor in Pretoria-Noord

Vermiste Dennis Haynes word na 31 jaar opgespoor in Pretoria-Noord

ʼn Man van Bloemfontein wat in Februarie 1986 spoorloos verdwyn het, is moontlik ná 31 jaar in Pretoria opgespoor.

Dennis Haynes was 22 jaar oud toe hy van Bloemfontein na Roodepoort vertrek het vir ʼn werksgeleentheid. Sy vrou en eenjarige dogtertjie het in Bloemfontein agtergebly.

Dennis het egter nooit teruggekeer nie en sy familie kon hom nie in die hande kry nie. Hy is as vermis by die polisie aangemeld, maar ʼn soektog na hom het niks opgelewer nie.

Desireé Haynes, Dennis se suster, was baie jonk toe haar broer vermis geraak het. Sy het
Vrydag aan Maroela Media gesê dat die familie mettertyd aanvaar het dat hy waarskynlik dood is. “ʼn Vriendin van my het ses weke terug besluit om bietjie te begin krap. Ons het nie gedink ons sal hom lewend opspoor nie, maar ons wou graag weet watndestyds met hom gebeur het,” het Desireé gesê.

Desireé se vriendin het ʼn Facebook-blad begin waarop sy ʼn foto van hom geplaas het en gevra het dat enigiemand wat hom moontlik gesien het met haar kontak maak. ʼn Vrou wat hulp aan haweloses in Pretoria gee, het die foto gesien en haar gekontak. “Die vrou het ʼn foto van ʼn hawelose man in Pretoria op die groep se blad geplaas en gevra of dit moontlik dieselfde man kon wees.

Van ons familielede wat die foto gesien het, was onmiddellik vas oortuig dat dit Dennis is,” het Desireé gesê.

Vandeesweek is Desireé en haar vriendin Pretoria toe om die man te ontmoet en te kyk wat hulle kan wys word. Die man het homself as Francois voorgestel, hoewel hy baie soos ʼn ouer weergawe van Dennis lyk wat 31 jaar gelede vermis geraak het.

Volgens Desireé ly die man aan erge geheueverlies en kon sy agterkom dat hy ʼn mate van breinskade opgedoen het.

Dennis Haynes soos hy gelyk het toe hy vermis geraak het.

“Ek was baie jonk toe Dennis vermis geraak het en kan hom nie baie goed onthou nie. Maar my hele familie herken hom. Almal is vas oortuig die man van Pretoria is Dennis.”

Volgens Desireé het die man haar nie onmiddellik herken nie, maar nadat sy ʼn rukkie met hom gesels het, het hy gesê hy weet sy is sy suster. Hy het ook ʼn foto van hul ma herken.

Vandeesweek het ʼn vrou ook vir Desireé gekontak wat beweer sy het as kind vir Dennis geken. Volgens die vrou was sy 12 jaar oud toe haar ouers begin het om gereeld vir Dennis kos te neem. Sy vertel dat Dennis briewe aan haar geskryf het waarin hy vertel van sy familie en lewe in Bloemfontein. Die vrou het gesê Dennis het die briewe in die styl van ʼn vervolgverhaal geskryf en elke brief het gevolg op die voriges.
“Die vrou sê ongeveer twee jaar nadat sy vir Dennis leer ken het, het hy vir ʼn ruk net verdwyn en toe hy terugkom, het hy homself as Francois voorgestel,” vertel Desireé. “Hy het snymerke en wonde gehad en sy kon sien dat hy in ʼn ongeluk was. Hy het klaarblyklik geheueverlies gehad, want hy kon nie onthou dat sy naam voorheen Dennis was nie. Hy het ook stadiger gepraat, asof hy in ʼn ongeluk was.”

Die vrou het later verhuis en kontak met Dennis, oftewel Francois, verloor. Toe sy egter die foto van hom op Facebook sien, het sy hom dadelik herken en vir Desireé gekontak om haar van die briewe te vertel.

“Die inligting wat sy uit die briewe onthou, is 100% akkurate inligting van Dennis se lewe in Bloemfontein. Dit lyk asof dit regtig hy is,” het Desireé gesê.

“Die vrou het vir my gesê sy het altyd gewonder hoekom sy so goeie geheue het. Nou weet sy dit is omdat die Here geweet het hierdie man gaan sy geheue verloor en sy sal sy storie moet vertel.”

Dennis Haynes se familie glo die man van Pretoria is hul broer wat dekades gelede vermis geraak het.
Desireé het ook gesê ʼn man het Donderdag deur Facebook met hulle kontak gemaak en beweer dat Dennis jare gelede voor die plek waar hy werk in ʼn tref-en-trap-ongeluk betrokke was. Volgens die man het hy vir Dennis hospitaal toe geneem, maar toe ook weer met hom kontak verloor.

Desireé het gesê die familie het DNS-toetse laat doen om te bepaal of Francois wel hul lank verlore broer Dennis is. Hoewel hulle nog op die uitslae wag, is die familie vas oortuig dat hul broer na al die jare gevind is.

“My oom was jare lank in die polisie en hy het vir my gesê destyds het hulle nie regtig baie aandag aan vermiste persoon-sake gegee nie. Daardie tyd het hulle gedink as ʼn volwassene vermis raak, het hy seker uit vrye wil geloop, so daar is nie baie moeite gedoen om die persoon op te spoor nie,” het sy gesê.

Terwyl daar op die uitslae gewag word, bly Dennis by een van Desireé se vriendinne op ʼn plaas buite Theunissen en help hulle hom met tandheelkundige en mediese behandeling.

Bron: Maroela Media