Crime

Gunmen killed nine in a brutal tavern attack in Bekkersdal, South Africa—the second mass shooting this December amid escalating gun violence in townships.

SAPS festive season crackdown yields thousands of arrests under Operation Shanela II, targeting drunk driving, violence, and crime hotspots for safer holidays in South Africa.

As the 2025 holiday season intensifies, border authorities across the globe report a sharp rise in smuggling attempts involving common items such as car batteries and food products. From Africa's busiest land crossing to alerts in Europe and North America, ...

South Africa’s Q2 2025 crime stats reveal sharp drops in murder (-11.5%), carjacking (-12.3%), and robbery. Is the tide finally turning on violent crime? Latest SAPS figures analysed.

The assassination of Witness D, Marius van der Merwe, outside his Brakpan home exposes the deadly risks whistleblowers face in South Africa. His murder after testifying at the Madlanga Commission raises urgent questions about justice, corruption, and the failure to ...

In the pre-dawn darkness of December 6, 2025, three masked gunmen stormed a Saulsville shebeen near Pretoria, opening fire on patrons and turning a quiet township hostel into a killing ground. Twelve people were murdered—including a 3-year-old boy, a 12-year-old, ...

A security guard fights for his life after a cash-in-transit van was bombed in a brazen daylight heist on Durban’s M35 highway. Explosives, gunfire, and a daring escape – the latest violent CIT robbery to rock KwaZulu-Natal as the festive ...

Thabo Bester launches a new legal challenge against his Tanzania deportation, mirroring Nandipha Magudumana’s tactics and threatening to push their sensational prison-escape trial even further into 2027.

A daring hijacker seized a Samaritan’s Purse aid plane over South Sudan — until the pilot’s brilliant fuel ruse forced a safe landing and arrest. Experts reveal why Africa’s charter skies remain dangerously vulnerable.

“He fathered children with vulnerable subordinates through coercion and rape” – former City Manager Dr Imogen Mashazi’s bombshell testimony against suspended EMPD Chief Mapiyeye has rocked Ekurhuleni and sparked nationwide outrage.

As holiday lights sparkle and families hit the road, a nationwide zero-tolerance DUI blitz launches today, December 2, 2025. With extra officers, random checkpoints, and tougher penalties, Transport Minister Elena Fubbs warns: one drink can cost you everything. “The joy ...

Just before sunrise on December 1, 2025, Durban’s iconic North Beach promenade turned from tranquil haven to scene of horror when three young adults were brutally stabbed in an apparent robbery. As over 1.3 million holidaymakers prepare to descend on ...

As South Africa’s highways fill with post-holiday traffic in late 2025, ruthless “blue-light bandits” — criminals posing as police with fake flashing lights — are ambushing drivers on the N1 and beyond. Dashcam footage reveals terrifying hijackings disguised as routine ...

In a chilling betrayal that has shaken Tembisa to its core, a beloved school principal and clerk were gunned down inside Inxiweni Primary School on November 18, 2025. Among the accused: a popular local pastor and DJ known as “DJ ...

SRD R370 grants delayed for millions in November 2025 – payments pushed to December. WhatsApp scams surge 300%. Get the facts, avoid fraud, and learn exactly how to check your status safely.

A R3.52 million abalone bust in Cape Town’s Primrose Park has exposed sophisticated drying operations fueling international syndicates. The November 7 raid—part of Operation Lockdown III—netted 6,400 illegal units and led to two arrests, intensifying the crackdown on poaching networks ...

Johannesburg's elite face a ruthless kidnap-for-ransom surge, with 144 cases in Gauteng during Q1 2025 alone. Sophisticated syndicates target executives and tycoons, demanding millions via encrypted apps. Police raids rescued 77 victims and arrested 88 suspects, while AI tracking, drones, ...

South Africa’s autopsy backlog traps families in grief. 40,000 toxicology, 140,000 DNA, and 41,000 ballistics cases delay burials and justice. Reform now.

Julius Malema was convicted on October 1, 2025, for firing a rifle at a 2018 EFF rally. Facing up to 15 years, he’s appealing the verdict as political persecution, with sentencing set for January 23, 2026.

A trusted police colonel stole over 2,000 state guns meant for destruction and sold them to Cape Flats gangs. These “Prinsloo guns” have fueled thousands of murders, including 187 children, and remain in circulation a decade later.

In Reiger Park, a drive-by shooting on October 28, 2025, killed three innocents and wounded four. The suspects—gang members out on bail—have sparked outrage and urgent calls for bail reform across South Africa.

South Africa's education system is haunted by 1.2 million ghost learners—fake enrolments draining billions in KZN and Limpopo. Parents and teachers demand urgent audits to end the fraud robbing real students of resources and opportunity.

Police seized 80kg of cocaine worth R20 million from a Midrand smallholding in Blue Hills on October 28, 2025. A 56-year-old man was arrested. The drugs, smuggled from a neighboring country, were headed to Cape Town. SAPS hailed the intelligence-led ...

Beneath Cape Town’s postcard-perfect Table Mountain, a brutal reality festers. On October 26, 2025, Grassy Park—a quiet suburb in the city’s south—erupted in violence when gunmen ambushed five men, killing a 32-year-old and wounding four others. This suspected gang attack, ...