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Four Limpopo cops arrested in connection with house robbery

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October 13, 2025

LIMPOPO police commissioner Lieutenant General Thembi Hadebe has condemned corruption within the police ranks after four officers were found on the wrong side of the law.

- THOBEKA NGEMA

Hadebe was reacting to the arrest of four officers alongside a civilian in Mpumalanga, in connection with a house robbery.

Provincial corporate communication and liaison head, Brigadier Hlulani Mashaba, said the suspects, aged between 29 and 41, were arrested in Lydenburg following a police response to a house robbery in Mashishing last Thursday.

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