A bushbuck was confiscated in Port Alfred’s Southwell Road and two suspected poachers were arrested after a joint operation between Multi-Panther security members and the South African Police Service (SAPS) in the early hours of Sunday…
Hope that EC rhino poaching surge will end as remaining two escapees rearrested The last two among the five rhino poachers who escaped from Makhanda’s prison in October last year are back behind bars. Nhambo Muyambo and Francis Chitiyo…
The sentencing of six rhino poachers convicted in the Makhanda High Court just over a month ago will be postponed until four of them who escaped from prison are traced. Francis Chitiyo, Trymore Chauke, Simba Masinge , Nhamo Muyambo, and…
It took less than an hour from the time a stranger asked for food for him to be identified as one of the seven men who escaped from Waainek Correctional Facility in Makhanda and rearrested. Trymore Chauke was arrested at Seven Fountains…
Police have confirmed that a second prisoner who escaped Waainek Correctional Facility earlier this week was caught near Makhanda last night. Seven prisoners escaped the Makhanda prison during the early hours of Tuesday morning. One was…
Five convicted rhino poachers who escaped from Waainek Correctional facility in Makhanda in the early hours of Tuesday 18 October were simply delaying the inevitable, said senior prosecutor Buks Coetzee. The five were awaiting sentencing…
PORT ALFRED – 20 APRIL 2022: Adze, a four-year-old Belgian Shepherd police patrol dog sniffed out poachers’ diving equipment from the bushes near Fish River, Port Alfred today. The estimated value of the equipment is over R50 000 On…
The Addo Elephant Park is adding technology to its infantry in the battle against poachers. The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) developed Cmore (command and control collaborator) software which the park’s control…
Two suspected poachers have been killed in a shootout with police in the Loskop Nature Reserve in Mpumalanga. Brigadier Vishnu Naidoo said a member of the Special Task Force (STF) was wounded in the standoff on Saturday night. “The team‚…
The Americans have landed‚ and they are here to hound poachers. On Tuesday‚ 10 counter-poaching dogs arrived at the O.R. Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg from Texas. These crossbreeds are trained‚ 10 counter-poaching dogs that…
