Being digitally present is a form of accountability: it signals that the station is not hiding behind central bureaucracy when communities are scared. It also enhances investigative capacity, as communities already share leads online, including images, videos, vehicle descriptions and patterns of movement
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%
The past 18 months have been tough for women cross-border traders, who saw their income vanish when borders closed
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/ 22 September 2009
SA’s murder rate has declined slightly, the government said on Tuesday, though a surge in robberies pushed the overall crime rate slightly higher.
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/ 18 September 2009
Security guards at shopping malls will not be armed to avoid ”war zones”, a conference heard in Johannesburg on Friday.
New security measures are needed to curb the number of armed robberies at shopping malls, the SA Council of Shopping Centres said on Friday.
A 16-month-old baby was shot dead during a robbery in Eersterust, Pretoria, police said on Wednesday.