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FILE: Police tape at a crime scene. Picture: Thomas Holder/Eyewitness News.

Violent crime

Why a failing police force has created an 'open season' for criminality in SA

By Devon Thomas

Lester Kiewit speaks to Master of Arts degree in Conflict, Security and Development holder at the School of Global Studies in Sussex University, Ziyanda...

  • Picture: @SAPoliceService/Twitter.

    ISS: To reduce violent & organised crimes, police must be intelligence-driven

    The institute's head of justice and violence prevention, Gareth Newham, said that there were various factors that drove murder and other crimes but the root of it was that people had normalised violence in South Africa.

    657 days ago
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    MAHLATSE MAHLASE: The thieves who stole dog food - the abnormal is normal in SA

    We are a country where normal has become abnormal, and we resort to blaming the victims for not taking measures to protect themselves, writes Mahlatse Mahlase.

    1071 days ago
  • Picture: Thomas Holder/EWN

    Violent crime in Cape Town also traumatising health workers

    Western Cape Health MEC Nomafrench Mbombo says crime is not only destroying communities but also traumatising health workers, eating away at an already stretched health budget.

    1103 days ago
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    FACT CHECK: The danger of owning a firearm in SA

    Africa Check looks at the claim by a South African charity that you are “four times more likely to have your gun used against you” than be able to use it against your attacker.

    1111 days ago
  • President Cyril Ramaphosa delivers the State of the Nation Address on 7 February 2019. Picture: Twitter/@ParliamentofRSA

    [OPINION] Ramaphosa’s plans aren’t enough to adequately tackle violent crime

    Many of the crime prevention strategies South African President Cyril Ramaphosa proposed have been tried, with few positive results.

    1280 days ago
  • Police Minister Bheki Cele and Western Cape Police Commissioner Khombinkosi Jula visiting Browns Farms near Nyanga after the death of four people. Picture: Cindy Archillies/EWN.

    [ANALYSIS] How police strategy to reduce violent crime in SA could work

    More than 90% of violent crimes in South Africa fall outside the categories named in the police's new anti-crime strategy.

    1517 days ago
  • Nine-year-old Sadia Sukhraj. Picture: Supplied

    Family battling to deal with Sadia Sukhraj's death in hijacking

    The grade four pupil sustained gunshot wounds to the stomach on Monday morning during a shootout between three hijackers and her father.

    1541 days ago
  • SA army and police raided on a buildings around Johannesburg CBD on 8 May 2015 as part of their operation to search for illegal goods, weapons and drugs. Picture: Nyasha Mharakurwa ‏@sirnyasha.

    'Crime in SA becoming more violent'

    Gareth Newham of the Institute for Security Studies discusses the signs of an upsurge in aggravated robbery and murder.

    2643 days ago
  • FILE: North West police are searching for three men who allegedly attacked an elderly couple on their De Wildt farm near Mmakau. picture: Reinart Toerien/EWN.

    Elderly North West couple tied up, burnt with hot iron

    The trio attacked the North West couple, ransacked the house and stole guns and groceries.

    2764 days ago
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