BRITS POS – BRITS - At approximately 07:00 on Friday, 29 August 2025, a minibus taxi carrying 16 passengers overturned on the Wagpos Road. Thankfully, not one of the passengers sustained life-threatening injuries, although some were treated for minor injuries and shock at the scene. And then, without warning, early on Wednesday morning, 3 September, two taxis were in a collision on the dreaded road. Public Works and the government can no longer delay repairs to this highly dangerous road. It is time to act now, without excuses. We are talking about the lives of children and adult commuters being endangered..
SASSA CONCERNED - Complaints of unlawful deductions on social grants
BRITS POS – BRITS - The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) is deeply concerned by the upsurge in what appears to be unlawful deductions by financial service providers targeting social grants beneficiaries.
SASSA has been inundated with enquiries from its beneficiaries, stating that their grant money is consistently being deducted by various insurance companies that they have not signed up for, believing that the Agency is working with these companies.
Law and justice eventually prevailed for rapist’s deeds
BRITS POS – POTCHEFSTROOM: 25 August 2025 - The Acting Provincial Commissioner of North West, Major General Patrick Asaneng, welcomes a life sentence handed down by the Brits Magistrates’ Court to a 41-year-old, Sello Solomon Mpete, on Friday, 22 August 2025. Mpete was sentenced for housebreaking with the intent to rape and the rape of the then 13-year-old victim in Segwaelane village near Mooinooi in the early hours of Saturday morning, 13 August 2016.
Attempted cash in transit robbery on N4
BRITS POS – MAJAKANENG - The police have launched an investigation following an attempted cash in transit robbery on Monday evening, 25 August 2025, on the N4 Bakwena Highway, near Majakaneng village, Mooinooi.
“It is alleged that a silver Mercedes Benz hit the cash in transit van that was travelling to Rustenburg and although the occupants of the Mercedes Benz fired shots towards the cash in transit van, the driver drove into the bushes and arrived at one of the mines in the area, where SSG security officers managed to assist,” says Brigadier Sabata Mokgwabone, SAPS North West spokesperson.
OPERATION SHANELA 2 - SAPS apprehend 1 137 suspects
BRITS POS – BRITS - The Police in the North West Province, working with other law enforcement agencies, conducted high-density, intelligence-led, joint law enforcement operations under Operation Shanela 2 throughout the province between Monday, 11 and Sunday, 17 August 2025. The operations included the setting of 11 roadblocks, searching of 443 premises, 3 004 persons and 1 197 vehicles.
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