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The suburb processes migrants and a large proportion of the country’s drug imports. (Rob White)
CRIME STATISTICS

Hillbrow: Where cops do the work for drug lords

Crime may be down, but Hillbrow’s illegal economy is too lucrative to eliminate corruption, writes Verashni Pillay.

  • Verashni Pillay
5 min read
ANDREW JORDAAN

Sheldean trial: Cop denies accused’s claims of torture

A Hillbrow police captain on Friday flatly denied that he had at any stage tortured or coached Andrew Jordaan to tell police where the body of seven-year-old Sheldean Human could…

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read
HILLBROW POLICE

Container truck ploughs into cars in Jo’burg

A container truck ploughed into six vehicles in Louis Botha Avenue, Johannesburg, on Monday, leaving 18 people hurt. Among the vehicles were a Hi-Ace taxi carrying ten passengers…

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read
BHEKIZIZWE MAVUNDLA

Cops crack down in Jo’burg crime blitz

More than 200 people were arrested in Johannesburg over the weekend for crimes including rape and robbery, police said on Monday. Captain Bhekizizwe Mavundla said Hillbrow police…

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read