The South African Police Service is hunting four suspects after a 16-year-old girl was beheaded following her abduction with a teenage boy in Limpopo on Friday.
Three community patrollers and one suspected criminal were killed in a gunfight in Inanda in KwaZulu-Natal.
Mobile phone accessories, consumables and toys were part of the counterfeit goods worth hundreds of thousands of rand recently seized in Gauteng.
Six accused in the high-profile R102 million fraud and money-laundering case centred on Malawian couple Shepherd and Mary Bushiri will stand trial separately.
A manhunt is under way after two crime intelligence officers were shot in an ambush, north of Durban, leaving one officer dead and another critically injured.
Four Butterworth courier van hijackers were swiftly arrested after tracking technology and a joint security operation helped expose their whereabouts.
Nxuba businessman, 38, faces court over possession of stolen property worth R65,000 including truck parts and engine oil.
A pedestrian was struck by a white bakkie on Commercial Road, Gqeberha, in a hit-and-run incident on Sunday, 26 April.
Three men were found burnt to death in Motherwell after alleged mob justice incident involving suspected school vandalism and theft.