A video capturing police brutality in South Africa has sparked outrage, raising concerns about the conduct of the police security team assigned to protect Deputy President Paul Mashatile.

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 ...

Two men, on right, suspected of driving a stolen vehicle, are handed over to police by private security personal, Anton Koen, left, in a suburb east of Johannesburg, South Africa, Friday, Dec. 1 ...

Our recent Corruption in Uniform report, released in mid-June, paints a grim picture of corruption within the South African police and metro police services.Analysing the 1,440 reports we’ve received ...

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 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 is considered more violent than Brazil (26 murders out of 100,000 deaths), Mexico (10), and the US (nearly 6). Honduras leads the crime table with 58 murders.

South Africa’s homicide rate in 2022-23 was 45 per 100,000 people, compared with a rate of 6.3 in the United States and around 1 in most European countries. Advertisement ...

There are more than 2.7 million registered private security officers in South Africa amid fewer than the nation's 150,000 police officers. Associated Press Jan 8, 2024 ...

In an indication that police are overwhelmed, local government authorities in the Gauteng province that includes Johannesburg, South Africa's largest city, have recently introduced their own crime ...