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Residents fetch water at a communal tap in Nyanga. (Photo by Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images)

Police resources might further drop in Nyanga, former ‘murder capital’ of SA

Provincial government and the City of Cape Town cannot plug the gap for national government’s responsibility for crime prevention, says DA

Place of mourning: The home where environmental activist Fikile Ntshangase was killed while children played outside. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)

Record number of land and environmental defenders killed globally in 2020

In South Africa, environmental activist Fikile Ntshangase and police detective Leroy Bruwer were killed

Public transport in Cape Town and its surrounds has stabilised somewhat following two weeks of disruption due to ongoing conflict over routes between two rival taxi associations.

Western Cape taxi violence claims more lives, wary residents eye looting in Gauteng and KZN

The ongoing taxi war in the Western Cape claimed the lives of three more people on Tuesday as the province braces itself for the possibility of the looting that has rocked…

(Graphic: John McCann/M&G)

Hachalu Hundessa’s murder sparks unrest in Ethiopia

The singer was a political activist, using his music to advocate for the rights of the Oromo

Mementoes: A picture of Aviwe Wellem hangs on a wall at the homestead. (Paul Botes/M&G)

No headstone for Aviwe – the woman a country forgot

In the Eastern Cape, as a village buries yet another murdered woman, mourners struggle to understand where the freedom has gone

Glebelands hostel. (Rajesh Jantilal/AFP)

Killers stalk Glebelands as murder trial begins

Despite court action against eight murder-accused, the killings and extortion in the KwaZulu-Natal hostel have continued

Cape Town’s Tygerberg mortuary. (David Harrison/M&G)

Piled up bodies add to wheels of justice turning slowly for Cape murder victims

The number of pathology cases in Cape Town has shot up because of the Mother City’s spiralling rate of violent crime and homicides

He’s fighting for your dying day

Despite losing another assisted-dying case, Sean Davison will continue his advocacy

Glebelands Hostel has been the centre of controversy since 2014. More than 90 murders have taken place there.

Glebelands hostel murder suspects to apply for bail

Several suspects, one of them a police officer, are expected to appear in the Durban Magistrate’s Court on Monday

It was all fun and jubilation at the Mbombela Campus graduations when a total of 477 qualifications were awarded to the students

Complicit in a tide of hate and violence

South Africans are spewing vitriol on a website that is said to be stoking the fires of hate crimes.

Cape Town mayor Patricia De Lille.

The white right, women’s murders and a massacre of statistics

Flawed reasoning and distorted statistics characterise attempts by some on South Africa’s white right to prove black men are more violent than white.

Jub Jub murder trial postponed

Jub Jub murder trial postponed

The murder trial of Molemo "Jub Jub" Maarohanye and Themba Tshabalala has been postponed by the Protea Magistrate’s Court until November 30.