Police Minister Bheki Cele has been ordered to pay a hefty damages fine of R350,000 after arresting the wrong person.
It seems like yonks ago that the convicted ‘Facebook rapist’ Thabo Bester was spotted shopping at Woolworths after everyone was told he had burned to death in his prison cell.
Stranger danger is a cliche for a reason.
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.
West Indies cricketer Fabian Allen is among numerous international cricketers who have journeyed to South Africa to participate in South Africa’s SA20 League.
On Saturday, a woman was stabbed, allegedly by a street child, while she was running along the beachfront in the morning.
Worshippers at a Constantia church were left traumatised after three armed robbers conned their way inside.
These freight robberies seem to have become so run-of-the-mill that truck drivers don’t even bat an eye when a hijacker shows up to steal the vehicle and its load.
Kirsten Kluyts was brutally murdered on October 29, while she was jogging at George Lea Park in Parkmore, participating in a MyRun event.
It is alarming to think that between April 2022 and March 2023, more than 27,000 South Africans were slain.
The siege on foreign visitors trying to navigate Cape Town is getting ridiculous now.
A Centurion fella was cycling among a group of 12 other cyclists on Saturday morning when he was brutally attacked and left for dead.
Los Angeles couple Jason and Kate Zoladz were en route to Cape Town International Airport on Tuesday, 24 October, when Google Maps made them take a turn for the worst.
A Mpumalanga family is mourning the tragic and unwarranted death of their dearest Megan Griesel who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time during a robbery.
One can only imagine the kind of nightmare that must have taken place yesterday morning in Westville, Durban.
The death of Shafiq Nassar comes almost a year after his cousin Abdel Fattah Nassar was also shot and killed in a gun battle near the V&A Waterfront.
To get their hands on these massive freight vehicles and the goods they carry, hijackers have had to up their antics.
In a shocking display of public violence, Wernich Botha (pictured) viciously assaulted two men outside a Klerksdorp shopping centre on September 2. Just after one man died, Botha decided to leave the country.
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.
DA KZN spokesperson on transport Sharon Hoosen has called out the state of the provinces’ dire situation, demanding an urgent report from law enforcement to curb the chaos.
One night recently, before midnight, the 21-year-old lady had finished work and had requested a trip home to Mitchells Plain with the e-hailing service InDrive. Little did she know that she would be in for a traumatising ride.
A brazen attempted hijacking was caught on CCTV cameras, showing the victim ram their car into their house’s gate and reverse the hell out of there.
Nobody was harmed, but the sad news is that the EMS Ambulance will, unfortunately, be put on pension, which is a great loss as it was one of a few ICU Ambulances in KwaZulu-Natal.
How he sat there and read the shocking stats, showing most crimes increased since the same period last year, is beyond any reasonable person with a general moral compass.
According to the latest Crime Index by Numbeo, three South African cities were ranked in the top 10 for the most dangerous cities in the world.
A Cape Flats resident mocked the new tech-driven interventions saying “It’s a bloody joke, to be honest”.
The gruelling reality is that Jeremy Gordin was senselessly and brutally murdered, seemingly over a TV and his car, which were the only items stolen on that fateful day.
While Thabo Bester’s escape seems isolated in its remarkable execution, there have actually been dozens of escapes reported over the years in South Africa.