It was time to organise South Africans for another struggle, this time against crime, businessman Cyril Ramaphosa said in Midrand on Thursday.
Crime and violence remain obstacles in the way of rectifying the socio-economic climate, a convention on safety has found.
Freedom Front Plus member of Parliament Willie Spies drove with an injured man, attacked in a robbery, on his car bonnet from near the airport in Cape
Alcohol-free public spaces and the idea of businesses not selling alcohol on payday were suggested at a conference as ways of reducing crime.
SA, battling perceptions of being an unsafe destination ahead of 2010, has made progress in fighting violent crime, the government said on Monday.
A suspected robber is in critical condition at a hospital near Germiston after he was shot during a robbery, Johannesburg police said on Saturday.
A matric boy stabbed a fellow pupil to death with a sword at a high school in Krugersdorp on Monday morning, Johannesburg police said.
Gauteng police busted an ATM bombing syndicate in the early hours of Thursday in Devland, south of Johannesburg.
Scientists have found ways to tease even more clues out of fingerprints’ telltale marks.
So futile and low-tech was the exercise back in 2004 that just five attacks using explosives took place countrywide in that year.
Every person, including Jacob Zuma, must be equal before the law, opposition leader Helen Zille said on Saturday, also calling for a crime charter.
A man who held nine Pretoria News advertising personnel hostage in April last year, was on Thursday given a suspended sentence.
One person was killed and several others injured when a group of gunmen opened fire on buses in Durban’s Inanda area early on Wednesday morning.
Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Helen Zille has been denied permission to visit the Jeppestown police station as part of the DA’s anti-crime campaign.
Launching her party’s anti-crime campaign on Friday, Helen Zille, leader of the Democratic Alliance, said: ”Today we say: enough is enough.”
More than half of the black middle class still live in townships, the majority of them by choice, the Future Fact research project said on Thursday.
Moya: One can break the law if that is what "simple economics" dictates is the best way to get desired outcomes.
Crime has a devastating effect on the profitability and viability of many small enterprises, according to findings of a survey released on Wednesday.
A fourth person has been arrested in connection with at least one of several drive-by shootings in Durban’s Chatsworth suburb, police said on Tuesday.
The DA has called for a dedicated police unit to investigate the recent spate of automatic teller machine (ATM) bombings around the country.
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.