While the idea sounds loopy, the actual science has been around since 2018.
Robbers are going for the patrons themselves, taking their smartphones and wallets, while also targeting their cars and even their homes when they are out.
While two cyclists managed to get away from knife-wielding suspects in Simon’s Town over the weekend, another cyclist was shot and killed in Brackenfell.
Describing it as “part of a wider sociological phenomenon hiding in plain sight”, the book Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers, makes for uncomfortable, but fascinating reading.
Another senseless crime taking place on Kelvin Road next to the Kelvin Grove Sports Club in Newlands.
New research from Discovery Insure shows what five things cause 60% of fatal car crashes on South Africa’s roads.
Emergency personnel gathered at the scene shortly after the blast, but were shooed away.
According to new information released by nationally trusted security firm ADT, the items that we should be guarding from criminals are more unexpected than you’d guess.
Hey, you have to move with the times, capise?
Forget about handbags, you’d better hang on to your weave when out in Cape Town and Joburg.
“The suspect was caught tripping balls at 900Mbps”.
The entitlement of our corruption-accused public servants is only eclipsed by their ineptness at covering their alleged crimes.
The problem has become so severe that some farmers are forced to spend as much as R200,000 a month on security guards to patrol their fields.
Powell and Roux point out that the new corruption offence shakes up South Africa’s anti-corruption laws in a big way.
Plus, the crime index by city 2024 has revealed another of South Africa’s capital cities as the second most dangerous city in the world.
The ‘adjusted’ VIP Risk Management System will now allow each of the 270 councillors and other committee members access to two VIP security guards without needing an SA Police Service (SAPS) risk assessment.
Nearly three weeks after being kidnapped outside a Brits primary school, cousins Mohamed Bataviya, 19, and Zahraa Mohamed, 17, have finally been freed after a successful sting operation by police.
Ignoring the police and bystanders at the scene, Tellez was seen “waving casually at cameras as he made his escape, swinging the severed leg around”.
More than 1,300 children are kidnapped every month, according to Missing Children South Africa, with SA ranked first on the African continent in kidnappings and seventh-highest worldwide.
The warning follows the disappearance of four children in the Western Cape in the last two weeks.
Stranger danger is a cliche for a reason.
The video shows three men sitting around a kitchen island having a late-night chat when two masked men appeared in the back garden.
A total of 250 murders from this period were gang-related, as well as 351 cases of attempted murder and 15 cases of assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm.
There’s clearly no fear of the consequences anymore.
A Nedbank employee was jailed after being caught helping herself to R5.3 million of the bank’s money, while another woman was sentenced for stealing R9 million from a mining company.
Early on Tuesday morning, several motorists were robbed of their belongings during peak traffic on the M1-M2 split at the Crown Interchange in Johannesburg.
“He was able to free himself, walked to the compound where his workers lived, and send out a message to ask for help.”
Police are investigating a possible case of human trafficking or smuggling.
On Saturday, a woman was stabbed, allegedly by a street child, while she was running along the beachfront in the morning.
Justin Mohn was charged with first-degree murder and abusing a body after police discovered the headless body of Michael Mohn in the toilet of his home.