Topic: Crime | GroundUp

Children “too scared to play outside” in Ocean View

Residents demand increased police visibility, CCTV cameras, more stop and search operations

By Thembela Ntongana

News | 9 July 2018

Policeman accused of beating women because they are lesbian

Officer due to appear in court on 17 July

By Kwanele Mketeni

Brief | 3 July 2018

“When you leave your kids in the morning, you just hope that you’re coming back”

Cash-in-transit workers demand improved security

By Annie Cebulski

News | 12 June 2018

Still no proper facilities for rape survivors at Khayelitsha court

Promises made in December have not yet been kept

By Barbara Maregele

News | 28 May 2018

Marikana settlement still waiting for floodlights

Residents say police find it too dark to patrol

By Mary-Anne Gontsana

Brief | 25 May 2018

Private taxis cash in after Tsakane minibus rank closure

“When the cat is away, the mice will play,” says taxi driver

By Kimberly Mutandiro

News | 25 May 2018

Another Abahlali activist shot dead

S’fiso Ngcobo shot seven times at his home

By Nompendulo Ngubane

News | 23 May 2018

School even had its burglar bars stolen

Parents close Empumalanga Primary in protest as school is stripped by thieves

By Joseph Chirume

News | 22 May 2018

Area with most murders in the country will wait until 2023 for another police station

“It cannot be we parachute in and parachute out,” resident tells police minister at launch of latest crime prevention operation in Cape Town

By Thembela Ntongana

News | 16 May 2018

Ramaphosa visits home of gunned-down corruption-fighting councillor

ANC comrades accuse each other of KZN political murders

By Nompendulo Ngubane

News | 15 May 2018

Mother wants to know who killed her child in police shoot-out

Two years after a fatal shooting in which seven high school students were also injured, families and victims have been told nothing

By Mary-Anne Gontsana

News | 8 May 2018

Truck stopped at gunpoint then set alight in Dunoon

Six people arrested as City continues demolishing shacks

By Peter Luhanga

Brief | 17 April 2018

City halted housing project because of violence

“No more fight left” says 62-year-old woman after waiting 28 years for a house

By Mary-Anne Gontsana

News | 17 April 2018

Khayelitsha residents demand justice for murdered land occupiers

Picket held outside NPA and SAPS

By Thembela Ntongana

Brief | 6 April 2018

Family wants answers after relative murdered in hospital

Tapiwa Chipika, a Zimbabwean, is believed to have been strangled in a ward

By Bernard Chiguvare

Brief | 29 March 2018

Family of murdered Xolobeni activist appeals to NPA to “unblock” investigation

Police inquiry into Sikhosiphi Radebe’s 2016 death is stalled

By Thembela Ntongana

News | 27 March 2018