South Africa has a problem with police brutality, with the most notorious recent incident in 2012 when 34 miners were killed when police fired on them with assault rifles during a strike over ...

Anton Koen, a former police officer who now runs a private security firm that specializes in tracking and recovering hijacked and stolen vehicles, prepares to go out on patrol east of Johannesburg ...

It was just another day in Mzansi, as a 60-year-old man decided that it was a good day to steal a police van and go for a ...

The GCB for Africa also found that 19 per cent of South African respondents had paid a bribe to a police officer, whether just once, occasionally, or often. This experience is replicated across most ...

The South African Police Service (SAPS) on Thursday retrieved the vehicle in which three police constables who had been reported missing were travelling in. The Volkswagen Polo was recovered from ...

Police confirmed that the vehicle retrieved from the Hennops River in Centurion was the VW Polo driven by three officers who went missing, reports EWN. Constables Cebekhulu Linda, Keamogetswe Buys ...

The South African police unlawfully used excessive and disproportionate force to disperse student protesters at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) on March 10, 2021, killing a bystander.

South African police recorded crime statistics point to the types of vehicles targeted by thieves and criminals in the country. The most up to date crime data from the SAPS, published in mid ...

South Africa’s homicide rate in 2022-2023 was 45 per 100,000 people, compared with a rate of 6.3 in the United States and around 1 in most European countries.

Violent crime in South Africa has spiked over the last decade after a period when it decreased substantially. There were 27,494 killings in South Africa in the year to February 2023, compared with ...