Crime

Legal action looms over Mamelodi Magistrates’ Court construction fiasco

Construction was due to be finished in 2016

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News | 1 October 2025

Apex court to hear landmark case on “consent” in sexual offences

The Embrace Project wants the Constitutional Court to confirm a high court ruling that found provisions in the Sexual Offences Act unconstitutional

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News | 22 September 2025

Chart of the week: Getting guns off the streets

Nearly 22,000 guns were confiscated over the past five years. Almost 7,000 confiscated guns were linked to murder cases.

Text by Zora Hollie. Graph by The Outlier.

Charts | 19 September 2025

Police van crashes into shacks, injures two, and leaves families homeless

The families say SAPS only took their statements a week after the incident

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News | 18 September 2025

Gang violence forces Kariega families to abandon their homes

More than 30 homes torched or vandalised as criminals target community leaders and witnesses in a suspected campaign of intimidation

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News | 10 September 2025

PAGAD marches against gang violence on the Cape Flats

The organisation marched under close police supervision in Mitchells Plain on Sunday

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Brief | 8 September 2025

Lottery corruption case reaches court after years of delays

No progress from National Prosecuting Authority in at least another 18 cases with a further 21 under investigation by SAPS and the Hawks

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News | 6 September 2025

Kariega clinic still closed seven weeks after gang shooting

Area has seen a surge in gang crime, residents say

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Brief | 3 September 2025

Police officer accused of murdering man in Khayelitsha

Off-duty cop allegedly took a gun from his colleague and shot Sesethu Sigonyela

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Brief | 1 September 2025

Commuters stranded in Somerset West amid deadly taxi violence

At least five people dead as tensions between CATA and CODETA boil over

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Brief | 27 August 2025

Informal settlement residents destroy sewage pump station

They threaten to prevent repairs to the station until their electricity is restored

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Brief | 26 August 2025

Violent crime on Table Mountain is increasing, volunteers warn

But SANParks says figures are stable

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News | 21 August 2025

Kariega residents march for better policing

“Protection fees are demanded from our children by other learners at schools, and they end up dropping out.”

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Brief | 19 August 2025

Pair charged with multi-million rand fraud in Lesotho Highlands Water Project

Moeketsi Victor Williams and business partner Mabohlokoa Itumeleng Chaka allegedly siphoned off R4.5-million from one of the contracting companies

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News | 19 August 2025

Lawyer for cop accused of assault fails to show up in court

In November 2023 police officers were caught on CCTV brutally assaulting a worker during a raid in Mowbray

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Brief | 15 August 2025