Crime
Cash-in-transit firms look to new technology to prevent festive season heists
Despite the COVID-19 lockdown, there have been 260 cash-in-transit heist incidents in the country this year, which is 16 more than last year.
One hundred and fifty of them were taken into custody for drunk driving.
The Safer Cities concept was launched in Durban on Friday by Deputy Police Minister Cassel Mathale and National Police Commissioner Khehla Sitole.
The Cape Chamber of Business and Industry conducted a survey recently and is concerned about the increases in crime affecting businesses.
Cliffy Smith, one of the organisers of the march, said they have had enough with police not taking crime serious enough.
Police Minister Bheki Cele is releasing the crime statistics for the second quarter of 2020/2021.
Several townships within the municipality were seen as national crime hotspots, with Inanda township being dubbed as the nation’s rape capital.
Most suspects were handcuffed in Ekhurhuleni over the weekend for crimes ranging from robbery rape and possession of unlicensed firearms and ammunition.
Party officials are responding to the killing of 40-year-old Leon Brits, whose body was found in his swimming pool at his home in Pofadder on Wednesday.
President Cyril Ramaphosa gave the closing address at the virtual African National Congress national executive committee lekgotla on Monday evening.
The country has been battling ongoing vandalism on public infrastructure for some time now.
Mabuyane visited the Ngxogi community outside the town on Saturday.
Drugs with a street value of around R4 million were also confiscated during a police operation in Elsies River on Friday night.
As part of a protest march organised by the Move One Million campaign, dozens of people gathered in the CBD on Saturday.
They were nabbed during an intelligence driven operation at the start of the weekend during which officers searched identified houses in the two communities.
The agricultural industry association has recently teamed up with the South African Police Service to ensure a more effective implementation of the Revised Rural Safety Strategy.
CCTV camera networks can assist in alleviating crime. But we must avoid dystopia, warns Thami Nkosi (Right2Know).
The police ministry publishes South Africa’s crime statistics yearly, indicating the types of criminal activities, which have either increased or decreased.
The incident took place in Scottsdene in Kraaifontein on Saturday night.