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.
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1,200 suspects arrested for various crimes in Gauteng over weekend
One hundred and fifty of them were taken into custody for drunk driving.
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SAPS, eThekwini Metro invest R250m into crime-fighting initiative
The Safer Cities concept was launched in Durban on Friday by Deputy Police Minister Cassel Mathale and National Police Commissioner Khehla Sitole.
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CT businesses report that crime, extortion on the rise
The Cape Chamber of Business and Industry conducted a survey recently and is concerned about the increases in crime affecting businesses.
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Residents of Joburg South say they are g*tvol of crime, police corruption
Cliffy Smith, one of the organisers of the march, said they have had enough with police not taking crime serious enough.
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5,107 people murdered, rape cases increased in Q2 - Cele
Police Minister Bheki Cele is releasing the crime statistics for the second quarter of 2020/2021.
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Crime-fighting forum involving police, communities launched in eThekwini
Several townships within the municipality were seen as national crime hotspots, with Inanda township being dubbed as the nation’s rape capital.
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Over 1,000 people arrested in Gauteng during Okae Molao operation
Most suspects were handcuffed in Ekhurhuleni over the weekend for crimes ranging from robbery rape and possession of unlicensed firearms and ammunition.
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DA in Northern Cape calls on govt to implement plan to eradicate crime
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.
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Ramaphosa: ANC acknowledges that crime & corruption are hurting society
President Cyril Ramaphosa gave the closing address at the virtual African National Congress national executive committee lekgotla on Monday evening.
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Cabinet urges South Africans to be more vocal about cable theft on railway lines
The country has been battling ongoing vandalism on public infrastructure for some time now.
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EC Premier Mabuyane urges Ngcobo residents to stand together against crime
Mabuyane visited the Ngxogi community outside the town on Saturday.
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WC police round up at least 30 suspects for a range of crimes
Drugs with a street value of around R4 million were also confiscated during a police operation in Elsies River on Friday night.
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Hundreds of Capetonians voice their anger of rising crime, corruption in SA
As part of a protest march organised by the Move One Million campaign, dozens of people gathered in the CBD on Saturday.
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3 arrested in Khayelitsha and Gugulethu; firearms seized
They were nabbed during an intelligence driven operation at the start of the weekend during which officers searched identified houses in the two communities.
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AgriSA renews calls for more decisive action to eradicate crime in 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.
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Big Bru is watching! (And selling your personal data to insurers and the like)
CCTV camera networks can assist in alleviating crime. But we must avoid dystopia, warns Thami Nkosi (Right2Know).
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LIVE BLOG: Most people are raped coming from shebeens, Cele says
The police ministry publishes South Africa’s crime statistics yearly, indicating the types of criminal activities, which have either increased or decreased.
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9-year-old girl fatally shot in Cape Town, SAPS looking for suspect(s)
The incident took place in Scottsdene in Kraaifontein on Saturday night.
