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A massive manhunt has been launched after awaiting trial prisoners escaped from the Malmesbury Correctional Centre on Friday.An extensive search has been launched by the Department of Correctional Services, together with local police and officers from neighbouring stations on the West Coast, correctional services spokesperson Logan Maistry said.The number of inmates at large is not…

Hospitality industry protesters were dispersed by police outside the gates of Parliament.Stun grenades and water cannons were used.A photographer covering the event said the march was peaceful. Numbers grew to about 200.Stun grenades and water cannons were used to disperse protesters marching to raise awareness about the plight of the hospitality industry outside Parliament on…

Police in the Western Cape had to deploy more officers to Kraaifontein following violent protests on Wednesday.Protesters looted stores, damaged a delivery truck as well as an ATM.Twenty suspects were arrested as a result of the protests.Police in the Western Cape had to deploy more officers to Kraaifontein on Wednesday after residents destroyed property, barricaded roads…

Firefighters spent almost 20 hours fighting a fire that erupted at a tyre workshop in Boksburg.They managed to save the Engen petrol station and its convenience shop, but part of the tyre workshop was destroyed.No injuries were reported. When a tyre workshop went up in flames in Boksburg on Sunday evening, Ekurhuleni Emergency Services officials fought…

Several affiliates of the restaurant industry gathered to protest lockdown regulations in Johannesburg on Wednesday.The picket, which was organised by Restaurants Association of South Africa (RASA), called for the unbanning of the sale of alcohol and the lifting of the 21:00 curfew. A memorandum of the sector's demands was handed over to Tourism Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane.Several streets in…