In Ministry of Crime, Mandy Wiener describes the way organised crime and powerful political figures joined forces to subvert the law.
In this edited extract from her new book, Heist, Anneliese Burgess says the plague of cash-in-transit robberies is only getting worse
The SAPS supplier threatened to shut down the justice system if the police didn’t pay by midnight
IPID spokesperson Moses Dlamini confirmed that he received reports that Tshabalala had poisoned himself
The division is just one of the areas in the SAPS that the new police minister wants to reform
A tech company is holding the justice system to "ransom"
The police dodged blame at the inquiry, trying to absolve themselves from responsibility for failure to solve the almost 100 murders
The DA Federal Executive chairperson filed a complaint against De Lille after receiving an “unsolicited affidavit” from a business person
IPID alleged the police reabsorbed "Captain KGB" after being released from prison in 2015 and that he was still receiving a salary while incarcerated.
Previously councils had to ask the South African Police Service for a threat and risk analysis before they were allowed to pay for mayoral bodyguards.
Corruption still bedevils the agency but Molepo says he will not be an armchair chief executive
The experiences of activists who were tortured during apartheid and those tortured after 1994 are chillingly similar.
Have South Africans become inured to heavy-handed police action in response to protests, as it did during apartheid and back in the colonial conquest?
After his strong words on foreigners in South Africa, what will deputy police minister Bongani Mkongi say when next xenophobic violence flares up?
Pairing the sky-high femicide figures with SA’s ignoble reputation as the rape capital of the world raises the question about government’s response.
Arrests are costly and pointless, but decriminalising dagga will free up resources to tackle serious crime.
One way to slow the death rate down is to cut the number of illegal guns in circulation.
Rosettenville residents say houses were burnt because of police inaction on crime allegations.
Suspended SAPS commissioner seeks a review of the report that led to a board of inquiry, which has now reportedly found she is not fit to hold office.
Inmates want the NPA to tell them why their jailers weren’t prosecuted.
Close to R9-million of the South African Police Service’s budget has been spent buying luxury vehicles for Zuma’s spouses over the last four years.
A suspended police colonel says current acting national commissioner Khomotso Phahlane is responsible for procurement abuses under his watch.
Officers tried to cover up their ‘brazen and cruel’ treatment of an East London man who was in their custody for six hours.
A police officer’s laxity led to a boy shooting his brother but the family still waits for compensation.
With access to high political power, she believed she was unaccountable and untouchable, writes David Bruce.
National commissioner Riah Phiyega’s questionable fitness for office is just one of the many problems the SAPS faces, writes David Bruce.
Protesters have called on commissioner Riah Phiyega and Minister Nathi Nhleko to ban the use of R5 assault rifles in public order policing.
A leaked police report suggests a SAPS chemicals supplier is possibly guilty of tender collusion.
Police chief Riah Phiyega finds herself with fewer friends as SAPS top brass are forced to hang her out to dry.
A parliamentary committee has grilled police commissioners over a statement in which they expressed support for General Riah Phiyega.
The police have failed to solve the deaths of two government officials, seen as victims of politically motivated hits
We should never forget that our Constitution was designed to prevent the state from violating the rights of citizens and that includes crime suspects.