Roodepoort, South Africa News

A fire broke out in an abandoned building on Main Reef Road in Roodepoort on Monday, Johannesburg emergency services said.

Firefighters have contained a blaze at an abandoned steel factory in Roodepoort, west of Johannesburg.

Three men were arrested on Wednesday after allegedly hijacking a truck-load of motor oil in Benoni on the East Rand, police said.

South Africa's economic recovery will not be a fast process, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said in Johannesburg on Thursday.

The South African National Roads Agency Limited said the N1 South towards Roodepoort will be closed for traffic at the William Nicol Interchange on Saturday and Sunday due to roadworks.

MXit clue to robbers' number being up Two robbers were arrested after the number of a cellphone they allegedly stole was spotted by its owner on MXit, it was reported yesterday.

The company was crowned Roodepoort's best large business. Itec West has won a gold award in the category 'Large Business' in the Roodepoort Chamber of Commerce & Industry's prestigious annual Business of the Year awards.

A constable in the police's VIP protection unit drove at a "medium speed" of more than 100km/h at the time of a collision in which the driver of another vehicle died, a colleague testified on Monday.

The families of two young boys who drowned on Sunday after playing in the Blue Dam, in Roodepoort, western Johannesburg, battled to contain their grief when the boys' bodies were recovered.

Rescuers were last night searching for the bodies of two boys presumed to have drowned at Blue Dam in Fleurhoff, Roodepoort, Johannesburg emergency services said.

Two women were murdered and one was found severely assaulted in overnight crime in Soweto, Johannesburg police said on Tuesday.

A South African man has been arrested in Botswana for allegedly telling one of his workers he was "dumber than the president", Beeld reported on Thursday.

Is there a serial rapist in Gauteng or are police officers fiddling with their stats? Sex offences in this year's crime statistics have shot up nearly four-fold at some police stations around Gauteng.

By Sheree Bega Ciandi Vosloo screamed as two robbers ran off with her cellphone in Centurion this week, but seconds later one returned and attempted to cut off her right arm, almost succeeding in severing it completely.

A Roodepoort woman who allegedly destroyed the car of her ex-husband's teenage mistress after finding the two of them together, has to pay thousands of rands in damages and follow a programme to manage her aggression.

By Beauregard Tromp and Baldwin Ndaba Armed with a computer and an Internet connection, two ambitious men tried to use the name of Gauteng's top prosecutor to swindle an estate agent out of properties worth millions.

The South African National Blood Service has appealed to all regular blood donors, especially the Group "O" blood type, to urgently donate blood.

Reports that the Gauteng traffic department has imposed limits on its officers' use of vehicles, hindering them from responding to crime scenes were implausible, it said on Wednesday.

Officers are unable to respond to hijackings or robberies because the Gauteng Traffic Department has clamped their vehicles with red tape.

By Shaun Smillie and Poloko Tau Yet another Joburg shopping centre has been robbed - this time by 25 armed men with handguns and rifles.