Woman foils armed robbers

Cops set trap after former chief executive became target of attack In a town that doesn’t see much in the way of violent crime, they came armed with R-4 and R-5 rifles – their tar- get: a prominent South African businesswoman. But the four men who had planned to rob former Billabong South Africa chief executive […]

Wrongly convicted man freed

The first ting that Phumlani Sam asked warders for when he stepped into the West Bank Maximum Prison to begin his 15 year jail sentence for business robbery was to be put in a cell with churchgoers. Sam had heard horror stories about how hardened criminals welcomed new inmates by assaulting them with padlocks and […]