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buy this article By Kotie GeldenhuysPhotos/images courtesy of Pixabay and Pexels Amid the Middle East’s conflicts and economic collapse, a small white pill has quietly become one of the world’s most lucrative and dangerous narcotics. Known as Captagon, this stimulant, once prescribed for medical use, has re-emerged into a multibillion-dollar industry, fuelling organised crime, empowering
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buy this article By Brig Dirk LambrechtsImage courtesy of FreePik Question:A Servamus reader referred Pollex to an online news article from 18 February 2025, entitled: “Highly paid government officials and wealthy individuals are suspected to be among those stealing electricity.” Because of the length of this news article, Pollex will quote some snippets from it.
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buy this article By Kotie GeldenhuysPhotos courtesy of Pixabay and Pexels Tourism plays an important role in boosting local economies and creating opportunities for communities, but it can also reveal a darker side of the industry. People travel for various reasons: most do so for business, leisure, adventure or relaxation. Yet some people cross borders
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buy this article By Kotie Geldenhuys Photos/images courtesy of Unsplash Dating apps are popular for single people seeking new relationships and potential love, but few realise that child predators also exploit these platforms. In some cases, paedophiles use these apps to target single parents by building trust with adults to access their children. This emerging
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buy this article By Kotie Geldenhuys Photos courtesy of Pexels What began as a routine family trip quickly spiralled into a mother’s worst nightmare. A South African woman, married to a foreign businessman, agreed that her husband could take their children to his home country to introduce them to relatives while she remained behind for
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buy this article By Kotie Geldenhuys Photos/images courtesy of Unsplash Childhood is meant to be a time of learning, play and innocence. Sadly, for some children, it becomes the beginning of a journey into crime. Across many communities, young people are becoming involved in illegal activities at an age when they should still focus on
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buy this article By Brig Dirk Lambrechts IntroductionThis National Prosecuting Authority Amendment Act 10 of 2024 (hereinafter referred to as the Amendment Act 10 of 2024), appears in English and Afrikaans in Government Gazette No 50713 dated 27 May 2024. Its main object is to amend the National Prosecuting Authority Act 32 of 1998 (hereinafter
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Buy this article QuestionOne of Servamus’s readers, who is a private investigator, reminds us that “a lot of the times a SAPS fingerprint expert takes a long while to report at a crime scene”. Accordingly, our reader wants to know whether an SAPS fingerprint expert is the only authorised person who may dust for, and
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Buy this article QuestionA reader refers Pollex to the Constitutional Court (“the Concourt”) judgment of AK v Minister of Police [2022] ZACC 14 (CC), and 2023 (1) SACR 113 (CC). This is the case in which Ms AK claimed damages (Afrikaans: “skadevergoeding”) from the SAPS in Gqeberha (formerly Port Elizabeth), in that the SAPS failed
