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/ 26 November 2008
Business against Crime South Africa has issued basic safety and security precautions to safeguard travellers over the upcoming holiday season.
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/ 22 November 2008
Nothing will be left to chance concerning security issues at the Confederations Cup and Soccer World Cup, a minister said on Saturday.
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/ 17 November 2008
Gauteng police have launched a manhunt for six criminals responsible for a spate of armed robberies, a spokesperson said on Monday.
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/ 12 November 2008
The new ”get tough” approach to fighting crime was elaborated on on Wednesday by Nathi Mthethwa, the new Minister of Safety and Security.
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/ 8 November 2008
Two people were shot and wounded in armed robberies at the Northgate shopping mall, Johannesburg paramedics said on Friday.
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/ 21 October 2008
The financial crisis is a double whammy for police in many US cities: they face budget cuts as they brace for an expected surge in crime.
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/ 14 October 2008
The International Maritime Organisation speaks to us about how it plans to deal with bandits around Africa’s horn.
Parliament has started winding down the Directorate of Special Operations — better known as the Scorpions.
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/ 15 September 2008
A suspected robber in his early twenties was shot and killed in Killarney, Johannesburg police said on Sunday.
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/ 11 September 2008
When the political will to deal with elite crimes falters, a culture of impunity takes hold.
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/ 4 September 2008
The DA has raised concerns over the South African Police Service’s ability to undertake complex crime investigations.
A US tourist was shot and robbed in Durban on Sunday morning. Inspector Michael Read said the man was attacked near the Victoria Street Market.
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.