Crime

Classes disrupted as pupils seek justice for the murder of Palesa Malatji

Classes were disrupted on Monday morning at the Ntsako Secondary School and neighbouring schools in Soshanguve, north of Tshwane as pupils marched to the Rietgat police station to seek justice for fellow grade 12 learner Palesa Malatji.

Neo Poho·10 months ago

Four of the five suspects in the Thabo Bester prison escape denied bail

Four of the former G4S employees accused of aiding Thabo Bester's prison escape have been denied bail on Tuesday the 29th of May 2023.

Neo Poho·10 months ago

Top Ten Most Hijacked Passenger Vehicle Brands

Ctrack, a global supplier of vehicle tracking, insurance telematics and fleet management solutions, released a report based on its hijacking and crime statistics. The report was compiled using data and analytics from January 2016 to Dece...

Joburg Post·almost 5 years ago

Authorities in Tanzania Not Bothered by Oil-covered Rapists

Authorities in Western Tanzania are doing little to intervene in the spiking amounts of rapes by oil-covered men. Women in Western Tanzania have been forced to live in constant fear of being attacked and raped in their homes by grease-co...

Neo Sithole·almost 5 years ago

Soldiers Won’t Stem Gang Violence Because South Africa’s Army Is In A Sorry State

The initial response to the recent deployment of the South African army to areas of Cape Town hit hard by gang violence evoked relief that peace and stability would be restored to the area. But this has been replaced with a much more nua...

Lindy Heinecken·over 4 years ago

Old Mutual’s Bomb Scare-Coincidence?

Late Wednesday afternoon Old Mutual’s Sandton office was evacuated following an anonymous call made to SAPS that there was a bomb somewhere in the building. No actual bomb was found suspicions around if anything about the bomb scare has ...

Neo Sithole·over 4 years ago

A New Approach to Criminalisation Could End Cape Town’s Drug Wars

It’s not known exactly how many gangs there are in South Africa’s Western Cape province, but gang membership has been estimated at more than 100 000. Almost all these gangs, most concentrated in Cape Town, make the bulk of their money fr...

Don Pinnock·over 4 years ago

The Same Energy Used In The Fight Against Covid19, Must Be Used In The Fight Against Gender Based Violence .

Beaten, broken, abused , raped and murdered . These are the present realities which women find themselves in, with the ultimate fear of being brutally murdered while the case is swept under underneath the carpet without ever being solve...

Phumzile Mavimbela·over 3 years ago

Whats's On Everyones lips : Bushiri Flees SA.

Shepherd Bushiri also known as Major 1 or Prophet Shepherd Bushiri, a Malawian Christian preacher, author and businessman from Malawi has fled South Africa ahead of his fraud trial. The enlightened Christian Gathering church leader and ...

Phumzile Mavimbela ·over 3 years ago

The Men Accussed For The Murder Of Soccer Player Senzo Meyiwa Apeared In Court Again

The men accused in the Senzo Meyiwa murder case made thier second appearance at the Boksburg Magistrate Court on  Friday .The men still maintain thier innocence in murder of the Soccer player . 

Phumzile Mavimbela·over 3 years ago

Tumelo Madlala reveals Bongani Sandiso Ntanzi had a tussle with Senzo Meyiwa before his death

Senzo Meyiwa’s childhood friend Tumelo Madlala has revealed that Bongani Sandiso Ntanzi was the man who had a tussle with Meyiwa before his death.

Neo Poho·8 months ago

Mass shootings in South Africa are often over group turf: how to stop the cycle of reprisals

There has been intense speculation about the motives behind the killings in the absence of reliable evidence that explains why the multiple murders took place

Guy Lamb-Criminologist/Lecture, Stellenbosch University·over 1 year ago

Tributes pour in for AKA, as his family confirms his passing

Tributes have began to flood in for the late icon in the South African hip-hop industry, AKA. This comes as the artist was shot dead on the evening of 10 February 2023.The parents of Kiernan Forbes, commonly known as AKA, have in a state...

Tshegofatso Makola·about 1 year ago

Tech Unchecked is The Enemy We Never Expected

It has been said a thousand times before technology has completely revolutionised our lives everything we do is shaped and formed around technology. I mean, we literally do everything online, we date, we meditate, we learn new languages,...

Zizipho Ndevu·over 4 years ago

The Army is Being Used to Fight Cape Town’s Gangs. Why It’s a Bad Idea

Following the latest spate of murders on the notorious Cape Flats in the Cape Town, the South African government has decided to send in the army. The move has been welcomed by many who want to see an end to the rampant violence, crime an...

Lindy Heinecken·over 4 years ago

South Africa’s Soldiers Won’t End Gang Violence. A Co-Ordinated Plan Might

The South African government has taken a decision to deploy members of the South African National Defence Force to areas that have been ravaged by gang violence. At least the deployment of the army shows some commitment by government to ...

Joburg Post·over 4 years ago

Police In Gauteng Have Heightened Visibility As The Easter Season Approaches.

Police in Gauteng are heightening visibility and have intensified crime prevention and road safety operations as the Easter long weekend looms. Acting Gauteng Commissioner of Police, Major General Tommy Mthombeni led the O Kae Molao O...

Phumzile Mavimbela ·almost 3 years ago

Cape Town’s Bloody Gang Violence Is Inextricably Bound Up In Its History

When the apartheid government decided to evict people it called Coloured from Cape Town’s inner city, it set off a chain reaction that now requires military intervention. More than 50 years on from the mass evictions that drove anyone wh...

Don Pinnock·over 4 years ago

Crime has reached a crisis point and requires concerted efforts from Police and civil Society

'The increase of 11 per cent in sexual offences, 13 per cent in murder and 34 per cent in attempted sexual offences is worrying and points to a failure to deal with these categories of crime'

Parliamentary Press·over 1 year ago

Dr. Nandipha Magudumana 'unlawful arrest' application dismissed

Bloemfontein High Court Judge Phillip Loubser has dismissed Dr Nandipha Magudumana’s urgent application to have her arrest declared unlawful.

Neo Poho·10 months ago

Special Investigating Unit Host Webinars On Whistleblowing And Witness Protection In South Africa.

The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) under the banner of the Health Sector Anti-Corruption Forum has put together a five-episode series of webinars that will shine the spotlight on the state of whistleblowing and witness protection in So...

Phumzile Mavimbela·over 2 years ago

The Southern African Fraud Prevention Services Warns The Public To be Careful During these Critical Economic Times.

As the world celebrates International Fraud Awareness week The Southern African Fraud Prevention Services (SAFPS) has issued a report advising people to be extra careful more especially because the world is currently experiencing one of...

Phumzile Mavimbela·over 3 years ago

What's Trending : Two Prisoners Escape From Kgosi Mampuru Prison.

Two Prisoners have escaped from from the Kgosi Mampuru Correctional Centre in Tshwane on Wednesday. Following the escape the Department of Correctional Services has launched a manhunt of the two prisoners. The Department says one of t...

Phumzile Mavimbela·over 3 years ago

What's On Everyone's Lips : A Police Official And Spouse Have Been Arrested, In Connection To A R500k Bribe From Bushiri.

Suspects allegedly connected to the escape of Shepherd Bushiri and his wife will present themselves before the Pretoria Magistrates Court soon for charges related to corruption . The suspects a police Brigadier and her husband have alle...

Phumzile Mavimbela·over 3 years ago

City of Joburg EISD MMC calls on Joburg to Help Put an End to Cable Theft and Vandalism

The City Of Joburg MMC for Environment and Infrastructure Services Department, Michael Sun has expressed his disattisfaction towards cable theft and infrastructure vandalism amid the plight of cable and Jojo tank theft and vandalism in t...

Tshegofatso Makola·about 1 year ago

Minister of Police, Bheki Cele visits Sophiatown Police Station amid growing violence in Westbury

The Minister of Police, Bheki Cele is set to demand answers regarding the state of crime and violence in Westbury. This is following the shootings of thirteen people over the past few days in the region. Bheki Cele is visiting the Sophia...

Tshegofatso Makola·about 1 year ago

16 people killed due to a gas leak at Boksburg informal settlement

Sixteen people have died in Boksburg after a gas leak at the Angelo informal settlement on Wednesday night.

Neo Poho·9 months ago

City of Johannesburg deploys metro police to monitor Soweto amid e-hailing attacks

In the midst of all chaos between the e-hailing vehicles and taxi drives in Soweto, the Johannesburg metro police department intelligence unit has been deployed to monitor the place after vehicles were torched in Maponya Mall and chaos e...

Neo Poho·10 months ago

Gauteng Government to introduce facial recognition cameras to fight crime in the Province

In a bid to fight crime in the province, the Gauteng provincial government is considering to introduce facial recognition cameras.

Neo Poho·9 months ago

Thembinkosi Lorch's case postponed to the 4th of September 2023

The sentencing of Orlando Pirates midfielder Thembinkosi Lorch, which was supposed to happen at the Randburg Magistrate Court on Friday the 28th of July 2023 was postponed to the 4th of September 2023.

Neo Poho·8 months ago

Louis Tshakoane's fraud case is postponed to next week

Following his arrest on Tuesday at the funeral of Mamelodi Sundowns' public relations officer, Alex Shakoane in Mamelodi, Pretoria, former Kaizer Chiefs public relations officer Louis Tshakoane and his co-accused's fraud case has been po...

Neo Poho·11 months ago

"Actual evidence will be revealed in court" - Tanzania High Commissioner to SA

Following Dr. Nandipha Magudumana challenging her arrest in Tanzania and describing it as unlawful, Tanzania High Commissioner to South Africa, Gaudence Milanzi has revealed that further details around the contested incarceration will em...

Neo Poho·10 months ago

"Several phone calls were made to a number linked to Kelly Khumalo and one of the accused in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial" - Lambertus Steyn

Cellphone analyst and investigating officer Lambertus Steyn has revealed that several phone calls were made to a number linked to Kelly Khumalo and one of the accused in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial, months before the Bafana Bafana capt...

Neo Poho·8 months ago

"No one called the police after Senzo Meyiwa was shot" - Col Lambertus Steyn

State expert witness Col Lambertus Steyn has revealed that during his analysis of data from the cellphones of all the people who were in the house the night Senzo Meyiwa was shot, no phone call was made to either the police or emergency ...

Neo Poho·8 months ago

Dr Nandipha Magudumana reveals Thabo Bester took her forcefully

A tearful Dr Nandipha Magudumana told the Bloemfontein Magistrate's Court that her lover, convicted serial rapist and murderer Thabo Bester, forced her into a car and took her out of the country against her will.

Neo Poho ·7 months ago

Thabo Bester's case postponed to the 11th of October 2023

Escaped rapist and murderer Thabo Bester and his girlfriend Dr Nandipha Magudumana were reunited on Tuesday morning for the first time since their extradition from Tanzania after their arrest.

Neo Poho·8 months ago

Forget the Boogeyman, the Face of Gender-Based Violence Is A Familiar Face in Your Church, Office, School and Bed!

It has been a minute since I last wrote an opinion piece. Until the events of the past two weeks, I have not had the strength or mental resolve to speak to the matters that are impacting South Africa and the greater continent. However, l...

Musa Mdunge·over 4 years ago

Hope Healed My Trigger

It was just this week that I felt triggered by the horrific stories that had emerged on the news about multiple women who had been raped and murdered and fellow Africans that had been brutally murdered because they weren’t citizens. If I...

Zizipho Ndevu·over 4 years ago

Gauteng Provincial Government partners with Vumacam to fight crime

In a bid to fight crime in the province, the Gauteng provincial government is set to gain access to a huge network of closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras owned and operated by Vumacam to enable pre-emptive and proportional responses...

Neo Poho·about 1 month ago

"We will launch new number plates in Gauteng from the 1st of April 2024" - Panyaza Lesufi

As the journey to fight crime in Gauteng continues, Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi has revealed that new number plates in the province will be launched from the 1st of April 2024.

Neo Poho·about 1 month ago

Gauteng and Western Cape turn to drones to help fight crime

The Gauteng and Western Cape police services have received drones as another tool to help fight crime in the respective provinces.

Neo Poho·about 1 month ago