The upcoming elections are a vital opportunity to return safety and equality to our communities
People have now been forced to seriously consider whether the duty to protect one’s family can be left to the police
The country’s taxi industry aims to register its own security company and to work in collaboration with the police and the private security sector
The police arrested three people and killed four others suspected of cash-in-transit heists
Hiring 10 000 new recruits annually will not solve the crime crisis because of poor training and policing, as well as rampant corruption
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In this episode Charles Leonard hangs out with the city’s top crime reporter and a feared gangster who was convicted for multiple murders.
You leave your house at your own risk in the Cape Flats township. Motorists are a target, especially visitors. Gunshots are an everyday occurrence
Without the political incentive for fundamental economic change, the fortunes and possibilities for rehabilitation of ex-offenders will not, and cannot, change
Ramaphosa will continue to mouth platitudes and leave the police minister to his empty promises
More funds expected for SAPS, the National Prosecuting Authority and the Special Investigating Unit in the government’s effort to combat crime
For more than 30 years, Cora Bailey has dedicated her life’s work to helping poverty-stricken people and their pets in the west of Joburg
Dismissed employees’ experiences suggest that there are illegal money-making activities within the police service
Castigating, rather than encouraging, business leaders when they advocate for harsh interventions sets us all back
DA calls for an increase in policing powers of provincial and local governments
In 2021, South Africa had the third-highest number of cybercrime victims worldwide and it cost the economy R2.2-billion a year
Nearly 50 people were gunned down in another bloody week while implementation of the gunfire-detection system ShotSpotter was delayed by “administrative processes”
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If the mafia-like system is not properly grasped by law enforcement agencies the country will suffer devastating consequences
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Global rise in cyber crime as threat actors target vulnerable systems
Johnson’s brief premiership has been a relentless assault on the UK’s freedoms – to organise, to protest, to vote
The ANC, heads to this weekend’s policy conference more concerned with pushing back on attempts to improve governance than finding solutions to the many structural fault lines that have been so crudely exposed by our economic deterioration since the outbreak of the pandemic
The movement purports to only encourage the government to act on undocumented immigrants but that’s a falsehood and its activities are criminal
The police have warned commuters about using these pirate taxis but people have no choice but to use them
The city once traversed by mining prospectors has recently lost some of its most esteemed tenants, including Anglo American and the Minerals Council
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Operation Dudula has carried out a crackdown against illegal immigrants in Jo’burg, a drive that has resonated with mainly poor, angry South Africans
‘We will engage in a rugged struggle to ensure that all those who are implicated in the State Capture report are brought to book’
The former Business Leadership SA chief executive and current chancellor of the University of the Free State highlighted unemployment as the biggest problem to address
The deputy president’s remarks come just hours after acting Chief Justice Raymond Zondo warned that facilities were under threat from those wanting to destroy institutions safeguarding constitutional rights
Jes Foord told Lyse Comins that she believes she had to get the horrific ‘degree in rape’ so that she could help thousands of sexual violence victims through her nonprofit foundation
From their creation during colonisation to now, they have served the wealthy against the many
In the three-month period 6 163 murders occurred, a 20.7% increase from the same period last year, and 9 556 rapes were reported, a rise of 7.1%. The number of sexual offences was 11 964, up 4.7%
South Africa’s scores 4.5 out of 10 for human trafficking, the 2021 Global Organised Crime Index finds
‘He was like a loving father,’ says community member of murdered teacher in Philippi, Western Cape