A man attempting to smuggle cocaine with an estimated street value of R18m across the Beit Bridge border post has been arrested.

The family of a 6-year-old girl who was raped and stabbed do not want charges pressed against the man alleged to have committed the crime because they don't want to lose his grant money.

A homosexual couple in a remand detention centre in East London have laid a criminal charge against the head of the prison because they were separated after allegedly having sex in their cell.