Members of the Egyptian soccer team had about R19 000 stolen from their Johannesburg hotel rooms, a media report said on Saturday.
A South African woman, whose husband and mother-in-law were murdered five years ago in New Orleans, has unveiled a handbook for other ”survivors”.
In some countries the media were applauded as patriotic for not reporting on crime, President Jacob Zuma said on Friday.
South Africa’s fearsome record for robbery, murder and rape may be the single biggest challenge facing organisers of next year’s Soccer World Cup.
A businessman intends offering President Jacob Zuma R1-billion to fight crime, a media report said on Sunday.
Gauteng minister for safety and security Khabisi Mosunkutu on Thursday said crime was “terrorising” the community.
Improved policing will play a critical role in President Jacob Zuma’s administration’s strategy to fight crime, he said on Friday.
The army could be brought in to help the police fight crime, Minister of Police Nathi Mthethwa said on Sunday.
When I was a young boy, our elders used to regale us with tales of the legends that lived among them.
Fifteen members of the Western Cape’s top crime-fighting unit are being investigated for murder, writes
Pearlie Joubert.
Norah Dyantyi’s life never extended beyond her village, but news of her death reverberated throughout the Eastern Cape.
Nigeria has launched a campaign to improve its battered international image for corruption and crime.
There has been a 56% increase in the number of missing police dockets over the past year, the Democratic Alliance said on Sunday.
Pearlie Joubert visits a place where drugs, gangs and crime rule.
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/ 24 February 2009
A grade 12 pupil was stabbed and wounded, allegedly by another boy at Florida Park High School on Johannesburg’s West Rand on Tuesday, police said.
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/ 16 February 2009
Crime remains the biggest challenge facing Gauteng, Premier Paul Mashatile said delivering his state of the province address on Monday.
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/ 16 February 2009
Despite declining statistics South Africans still believe it’s out of control.
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/ 2 February 2009
A grade 10 pupil was shot and killed, allegedly by a police officer, in his classroom at a Mpumalanga high school, police said on Monday.
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/ 12 January 2009
Two men arrested in connection with the murder of an Inkatha Freedom Party youth leader appeared in the Mtubatuba Magistrate’s Court on Monday.
Tougher legislation to deal with ruthless police killers would be a positive step, the South African Police Union said on Friday.
Minister of Safety and Security Nathi Mthethwa said on Monday that the public’s perception of police corruption was correct.
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/ 24 December 2008
Police officers’ use of firearms need to be far more strictly controlled, KwaZulu-Natal monitor and researcher Mary de Haas said on Wednesday.
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/ 19 December 2008
Breyten Breytenbach has unleashed his pen against crime in his homeland in a US magazine, prompting a rebuke from Nelson Mandela’s office.
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/ 5 December 2008
A man who was renting out illegal guns to criminals and security companies was arrested in Mthatha on Friday, said Eastern Cape police.
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/ 5 December 2008
South Africans are not optimistic about the future, according to this year’s South African Reconciliation barometer.
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/ 4 December 2008
Americans will on Friday toast the 75th anniversary of the end of Prohibition, which began in 1920 and was repealed in 1933 on economic grounds.
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/ 3 December 2008
A Gauteng aggravated robbery strategy was launched by Premier Paul Mashatile on Wednesday to boost crime-fighting initiatives in the province.
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/ 2 December 2008
A unified approach comprising all sectors of the economy and society is needed to fight crime in the country, Deputy President Baleka Mbete says.
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/ 1 December 2008
Corruption and ill-discipline in the police service will not be tolerated, Safety and Security Minister Nathi Mthethwa said on Monday.
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/ 1 December 2008
Advertising executive Penny Holt loves South Africa but power cuts, a murky political climate and violent crime made her think about leaving.
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/ 27 November 2008
The ANC election manifesto will introduce policy changes while tightening functional ones, party president Jacob Zuma said on Wednesday night.
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/ 26 November 2008
Cape Verde’s deportees say they return home only to find plentiful drugs, unemployment and discrimination.