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”
If the mafia-like system is not properly grasped by law enforcement agencies the country will suffer devastating consequences
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
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
Kemi Adetiba’s Netflix miniseries is certainly stylish — but it’s missing the panache of the original
As long as there’s no political will to change policing in this country, there is not much that can be done, say civil rights activists
Statistics South Africa, the number of houses hit has increased from 2.1-million in 2015-16 to 2.3-million in 2019-20
During his tenure as president he enabled state capture and the building of the prison industrial complex
The private security guards were also first responders in some cases, and their helicopters provided information on emerging hotspots
The province gets a permanent police commissioner to fight crime and violence during a time of instability in the police force
Jacob Zuma’s relentless attack on the judiciary had a setback when the constitutional court sentenced him to 15 months for contempt. But will this achieve its purpose?
When screams of torture woke residents of Eldorado Park on Friday morning, calls to police remained unanswered as two bodies were found inside a house of horrors