Community leaders in Laingville and St Helena Bay on the Cape West Coast are adamant that police shot and wounded an 11-year-old boy in the…
What is more profitable than cocaine, heroin, marijuana or guns? Illegally trafficked cigarettes. For decades reputable tobacco companies have been complicit in cigarette smuggling. In…
Court hears children are languishing for months in detention for trivial offences Children found guilty of trivial offences, including the possession or use of cannabis,…
Cocaine trafficking routes from Latin America to Western Europe, South Africa and Australia. Photo: Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (click on images for full…
Photojournalist Shiraaz Mohamed spent a night with members of the Brixton SAPS and private security companies as they went on patrol as the sun set…
USA. Defund the police. It’s the slogan on everyone’s lips these days, begging the question, “what will replace them?” Despite the enthusiasm for defunding, the…
CAPE TOWN. The courts took five days to issue a protection order for a woman who had already been the victim of two domestic violence…
JOHANNESBURG – President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday evening strongly condemned the recent spate of gender-based violence (GBV) cases in South Africa. In a televised address from Pretoria, the president…
LIMPOPO, South Africa. Members of the South African Police Service (SAPS), in an effort to rid Limpopo of drugs, busted two suspects with illegal firearms,…
JOHANNESBURG – The legal team representing the family of a South African man allegedly beaten to death by soldiers enforcing COVID-19 lockdown restrictions reacted with…
JOHANNESBURG. Soldiers implicated in the death of Collins Khosa have been exonerated by an internal South African National Defence Force investigation, which found that the…
JOHANNESBURG. There will be no carrying of groceries bags, taking photos or reacting to insults from the public for soldiers deployed to enforce national lockdown…
JOHANNESBURG. An appeal against the Khosa judgment on police brutality seems imminent after Police Minister Bheki Cele tried to do a deal with the Khosa…
MANENBERG, Cape Town. Two Manenberg police officers appeared in the dock at Athlone Magistrates’ Court on Monday for allegedly kidnapping and extorting R5 000 from…
ALEXANDRA, Gauteng. In another unfortunate development, a South African man died after he was sjamboked to death, allegedly by soldiers, for drinking beer in a…