The Kimberley Serious Organised Crime Investigation team, along with De Aar Public Order Policing and Home Affairs’ Immigration Office, apprehended 26 illegal miners in Niekerkshoop, Northern Cape. Directorate for Priority Crimes Investigation (Hawks) spokesperson, Lieutenant Colonel Tebogo Thebe said the law enforcement team pounced on the gang after receiving information about illicit mining activities at […]
A Senior Botanical Horticulturist with the South African National Botanical Institute (SANBI), Adam Harrower, appeared in the Springbok District Court where he is facing charges of fraud and corruption related to poached plants. On Friday, Harrower joined his two co-accused including a former police officer, Captain Karel Coetzee Du Toit, and Warrant Officer Leonard William […]