The lead investigator in the abduction of alleged Isis leader Abdella Abadiga from the Mall of Africa in December — allegedly by South African military special forces — has been killed.

Rwandan genocide accused Fulgence Kayishema claims he is a refugee in South Africa and he has "heard" of the Rwandan genocide.

Three Nigerians who lived it up on a luxury estate on Johannesburg's West Rand now face the possibility of 20-year jail sentences in a US prison after allegedly stealing $6.3m (R116.3m) from businesses through sophisticated scams.

A police family violence, child protection and sexual offences unit officer was charged on Friday for allegedly kidnapping and torturing two Bangladeshis in Cape Town in January.

A hand gesture resembling handguns being cocked is how one of the men accused of kidnapping an eight-year-old Cape Town girl reacted to charges being dropped against two of his fellow accused.

Kidnapped eight-year-old Abirah Dekhta was rescued by police in Cape Town from a house in Khayelitsha thanks to a tip-off.

Two bodies, a male and a female, were retrieved from the scene, police confirmed in an update.

Two Nigerians, aged 39 and 42, were arrested in dawn raids by Interpol and the Hawks on Wednesday in the Pretoria East suburb of Equestria.

Nigerian "fraud kingpin" James Aliyu allegedly had biometric information linking him to a fake identity, that of Msweli Velenkosini, deleted on the home affairs national identification system (Hanis) from his prison cell.

The Hawks and National Prosecuting Authority rubbished claims made by alleged Phala Phala burglar Urbanus Shaumbwako’s lawyer Reon Heckrath in the Cape Town regional court on Thursday.