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Hawks head General Godfrey Lebeya. (Sunday Times)
CASH IN TRANSIT

Cash-in-transit heists remain ‘a thorn’, Hawks boss Lebeya says after 19 suspects killed in Limpopo

From April to June, the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation arrested 27 suspects and secured six convictions related to cash-in-transit heists

  • Eunice Masson
3 min read
ASSAULT

April-June 2021 crime states: Double-figure rise attributed to low levels during hard lockdown in 2020

The rise in crime levels is reduced to single-figures when compared with stats for 2019

  • Eunice Masson
3 min read
The MTBPS stresses that there are already 18.3 million citizens who receive one or another form of welfare grant. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
ZUMAUNREST

Sassa payments at cash paypoints suspended due to riots

Sassa has suspended cash payments after the cash-in-transit industry halted cash delivery until further notice in response to rioting and looting

  • Charma du Plessis
1 min read
South Africa’s police commissioner
ANDREW FAULL UCT

Here’s how the police strategy to curb violent crime could work

To significantly reduce violence and harm in South Africa, the police should expand the strategy in three ways

  • Andrew Faull Uct
6 min read
Praise singers: Religious leaders are among those behind moves to register a pro-Zuma party to contest the polls.
CASH IN TRANSIT

Cash-in-transit heists ‘operate like well-oiled machines’

Security companies are doing everything in their power to curb the surge in cash-in-transit heists

  • Jenni Evans
4 min read
Peter Thabethe
CASH IN TRANSIT

Cash-in-transit heists are a mutating, spreading virus

In this edited extract from her new book, Heist, Anneliese Burgess says the plague of cash-in-transit robberies is only getting worse

  • Staff Reporter
9 min read
In the raid on Monday, the military police reportedly confiscated assault-rifle ammunition allegedly stolen from the army. (Gallo)
ARMS

Military swoop in on security company, confiscate ammunition

Military police have apparently raided the Midrand compound of cash-in-transit company SVB, which is owned by SA’s four major banks.

  • Sapa
1 min read