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Mpumalanga traffic cops bust for accepting bribes from motorists

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Four traffic officers and two SAPS members have been arrested in Mpumalanga for allegedly taking bribes from motorists over the festive season. The officers were arrested in Komatipoort, KwaMhlanga, and Middelburg on Friday as part of an anti-corruption drive conducted by the National Anti-Corruption Unit of the Road Traffic Management Corporation in Mpumalanga. “Three of …

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Truck set alight with driver inside in Touws River

Crime, News / By SA Trucker

A 50-year-old man sustained serious burn wounds when his truck was set alight along the N1 approximately 10km outside of Touws River during the early hours of this morning. At approximately 1am on Sunday morning, paramedics from ER24 came across the incident where they found the man’s truck well alight on the side of the …

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Manline tanker driver shot, truck torched near Pietermaritzburg

Crime / By SA Trucker

Durban – A 49-year-old Manline Energy truck driver was shot and wounded and his tanker set alight in Inchanga near Pietermaritzburg in the early hours of Friday morning. KwaZulu-Natal police spokesman Captain Nqobile Gwala said unknown men fired shots at the driver and set his truck alight on the R103 near Caravan Park at about …

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Three suspects caught in possession of 173 flat screen TVs in Tshwane

Crime / By SA Trucker

SAPS in Tshwane District Laudium have arrested three suspects ages between 23, 25 and 41 years old yesterday afternoon in Laudium. This follows the tip-off received from the community member about the truck off-loaded goods in one of the houses in Gem street Laudium . Police responded swiftly on the information provided and the following …

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Watch | Attackers on N3 use new trick to trap truck, loot and burn

Crime / By SA Trucker

While truck owners dream to see the end to the burning of their trucks on the N3, the attackers have deviced another way to actually cause more harm and effectively make sure they achieve their goal. Stop the truck at all costs, loot and burn, that’s their mission. In the process they don’t care how …

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Doctors arrested for medical fraud related to issuing of PrDPs

Crime / By SA Trucker

Traffic anti-corruption law enforcement authorities in the Nelson Mandela Bay metro have cracked down on doctors fraudulently issuing medical certificates which are mandatory in the granting of professional drivers’ permits (PrDP). The authority has raided at least 10 medical practices in the metro and arrested two suspects for allegedly practising medicine unlawfully while two others …

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We rob trucks because we are poor, say schoolkids in De Doorns

Crime, News / By SA Trucker

Cape Town – Schoolchildren were among the looters who raided a truck on the N1 in the Western Cape after the driver was hit by a rock hurled from a footbridge. “Now we have nice winter jerseys, pyjamas and gowns,” one of the youngsters told TimesLIVE in De Doorns on Wednesday. Pupils at a school …

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Five arrested for truck driver murder in De Doorns

Crime / By SA Trucker

Cape Town – Police are investigating the murder of Time Link Cargo driver Christopher Kgomo, 46, who died after his truck was stoned in De Doorns in Cape Town on Sunday morning. It has ermeged that five people have been for looting the vehicle. Kgomo died on Sunday morning when a boulder was thrown through …

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Man in custody for the murder of a South African trucker in Botswana

Crime / By SA Trucker

Botswana – Nineteen-year-old Samuel Marambe of Ghanzi Township’s Bosele Ward was arraigned May 10 in connection with the murder of a South African truck driver. Marambe, who appeared before Ghanzi Magistrate Lechani Wotho, is accused of killing Shimane Mjumeli, believed to have given him a ride, on May 8 near Chobokwane in the Ghanzi District. …

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A truck with two trailers, which Free State police stopped on the N8 near Thaba Nchu in the early hours of Wednesday morning, recovering cargo worth R2 million.

Stolen truck with cargo valued at R2 million recovered in Freestate

Crime, Stolen And Recovered / By SA Trucker

Free State police have arrested five people after they were tipped off about a suspected stolen truck on the N8 near Thaba Nchu in the early hours of Wednesday morning. The Selosesha Highway Patrol, Thaba Nchu police and Botshabelo police stopped the Mercedes Actros truck pulling a tautliner and recovered cargo worth about R2 million …

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