A Cape Town Uber driver has been arrested after a 28-year-old woman sustained injuries when he tried to rob and kidnap her on a trip home.
“This is why you lock your doors in South Africa…😂”, he captioned the post, not fully realising that he was actually pretty lucky to have received this particular end of the crime bargain in the country.
The victim and his colleague were about to deposit their wads of cash at a bank in the mall.
This man’s escape from justice was as wild as the illegal animals he kept in his house.
These “burglary tourists” are allegedly responsible for 94 burglaries in just one section of the city in 2023 alone, officials with the Los Angeles Police Department said.
South Africans can’t get enough of that Durban woman slamming into the man who allegedly robbed her of her handbag while trying to drive out of the Hillside Bluff Mall.
A tourist’s lovely walk through the colourful streets of the Bo-Kaap turned into a traumatic experience when a robber came up from behind to steal her phone.
This time, the suspected robber was holding the knife after being involved in an altercation with a man whose bag was allegedly stolen.
You’re staring down the barrel of a policeman’s gun as he confronts a pair of armed criminals trying to rob a courier van in Fleurhof, Randburg.
An unsuspecting couple was robbed at gunpoint after being tricked by crooks posing as a bin-cleaning service.
Props to the Durban resident who strolled out of his home with a pellet gun, pointed it at the three men, and shepherded them off the property.
A suspected thief in KwaZulu-Natal was caught by authorities dozing in the seat of the car that he had been accused of breaking into.
At exactly the right moment, a security guard drove past a busy intersection and noticed a crook in action.
41-year-old Abrie Geldenhuys took a tumble last Friday while walking in Pretoria Moot, and ended up falling into a stormwater channel.
If you’re going to waltz into a restaurant and grab a phone, you better have your escape route clearly mapped out.
A mugger in Parkhurst, Johannesburg, was on the receiving end of a fine tackle from a resident who responded to a woman’s call for help.
The gang responsible had just finished with the petrol station when they spotted the security guard cleaning his windscreen.
Anti-crime activist Yusuf Abramjee shared a video yesterday, which reportedly shows a German tourist being attacked outside a Cape Town hotel.
It takes a brazen thief to rob another thief who is in the midst of a stick-up, so off to northern Gauteng we go.
There’s always something satisfying about watching a crook get their comeuppance, which is exactly what happened during this attempted robbery in Durbanville.
Either David Schwimmer is having a rough time of late, or a guy who looks exactly like him robbed a restaurant in the UK.
The SAPS played a game of cops and robbers yesterday, but they got a bit confused and ended up as the people getting robbed, with the public playing the role of saviours.
This Colombian man has learnt his lesson, never to steal again. After stealing a woman’s phone his ‘fast’ get away was halted when he was hit by a bus. This is possilbly the fastest Karma turn around time.
A 72-year-old woman, living on her own in St. Francis Bay, killed an intruder early Sunday morning after she had been tied up, threatened and shoved in a cupboard. I am entirely unashamed to say that I think this woman is awesome and should be awarded the Victoria Cross and The Congressional Medal of Honor.