The Western Cape has been singled out by police as having one of the highest incidences of child murder.
Crime-ravaged SA would be a safer place if children were treated better by society, former president Nelson Mandela said on Wednesday.
Police were on Wednesday searching for body parts that were sliced off three corpses at a Pietermaritzburg mortuary.
A bungling thief was arrested after robbing a Johannesburg shop, dropping his ID and then going back to the scene of the crime to look for it.
Five ATMs have been blown up in separate incidents in Gauteng during the early hours of Tuesday morning, police said.
Crime levels in SA are a national problem and not only the responsibility of police and the government, Safety and Security Minister Charles says.
Several productions at this year’s National Arts Festival explore the dramatic potential of the time-space between crime and punishment.
The DA has questioned the accuracy of the latest crime statistics, saying decreases in certain categories could be due to under-reporting.
Two men stole R1-million from under the bed of a man in his home in Lambton near Germiston, east of Johannesburg, on the weekend.
ANC leader Jacob Zuma on Sunday laid down the law for the ANC Youth League at the organisation’s national congress in Johannesburg.
Court action looms after top cop fails to have his case struck off the roll. Adriaan Basson reports
An unknown number of armed men killed a 35-year-old pregnant woman in a suspected house robbery in the Bergvlei Complex in Villeria, Garsfontein.
A 42-year-old teacher was shot dead in a school driveway in Durban’s Umlazi suburb on Thursday, police said.
Two police officers were robbed of their firearms and items were taken from their OR Tambo International Airport office, police said on Wednesday.
”We know that the guy who stabbed Mcebisi was standing with a group of people including the Paarl Regional Executive Council”
More detectives could be deployed to help Gauteng fight aggravated robbery, provincial minister of community safety Firoz Cachalia said on Monday.
Gauteng police were investigating a case of murder on Monday after a man was set alight in Diepsloot. Police said the man was attacked on Sunday.
The Hospital Association of South Africa on Friday condemned the recent robbery at Sunninghill Hospital in Sandton by four armed men.
The South African government needs to take people seriously, actor and comedian Desmond Dube said at the Million Man March anti-crime gathering in Pretoria on Tuesday.
Organisers of Tuesday’s planned Million Man March in Pretoria hope criminals will get the message that the country is united against them, a spokesperson said on Monday.
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/ 14 February 2008
The African National Congress’s decision to disband the Scorpions is to be deplored.
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/ 24 January 2008
Why, in God’s name, do the Scorpions need to be dissolved into the South African Police Service?
Every time a crime-trends statistics report is released, there follows a round of indignant finger-pointing.
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/ 15 February 2007
Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota took issue this week with South Africans who complained about crime.
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/ 12 January 2001
More and more wealthy Gauteng residents are opting for enclosed communities as a way to fight crime, writes Sheree Rossouw.
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/ 12 January 2001
Residents of a northern Johannesburg suburb are locked in a dispute with their council about the erection of security enclosures to help fight crime.
Bugs have become the new cadets in the crime war as forensic entomology provides crucial evidence in court.