The Cape Town community group, Friends of Table Mountain, has launched a petition calling for immediate action to be taken to stop the escalating crime around the slopes of Table Mointain, Lion’s Head, and Signal Hill.
Shoprite works alongside SAPS and the National Prosecuting Authority on all of its cases and has even brought in an expert criminal lawyer to assist in getting criminals off the street.
The judge believes that the younger generation is more into slashing tires than throats, and has become ‘softer’.
Police Minister Bheki Cele just revealed that more than 7 000 police officers have been charged with various crimes in the last five years, including committing murder, rape, cash-in-transit heists, and kidnapping.
Adapted from Deon Meyer’s best-selling novel of the same name, the new series promises to take viewers on a rollercoaster ride through the seedy world of Cape Town’s criminal underbelly.
Mack was sentenced to three years in prison after she pleaded guilty to charges including racketeering and conspiracy for her role as a prominent leader within Nxivm, the dismantled, Keith Raniere-led self-help group some have characterized as a cult.
How he sat there and read the shocking stats, showing most crimes increased since the same period last year, is beyond any reasonable person with a general moral compass.
Martin Scorsese reunites with longtime muses Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro in his upcoming Western epic.
Sometimes death is messy, but someone has to clean up afterwards.
A Cape Flats resident mocked the new tech-driven interventions saying “It’s a bloody joke, to be honest”.
Someone got shot and the cops rocked up to string some police tape while everyone goes about their business. Just another day in SA.
Give the guy a chance. He might just deter a ‘tikkop’ from grabbing your wife’s purse one day.
Flogging the islands – dubbed ‘Paedophile Island’ or ‘Orgy Island’ depending on who you asked – was proving to be tricky with an asking price of $125 million.
Writing ‘ANC’ next to a donga in your street should rather be seen as an ‘honest election campaign’, not a crime.
As Mr. Bumble said in Oliver Twist, “The law is an ass”.
Joining the Netflix true-crime canon is the brainwashed Lori Vallow, the “cult mom” in ‘Sins Of Our Mother.’
A man was shot and killed at a restaurant in Rondebosch shortly after a woman was rescued from an attempted kidnapping situation.
Leading the cast of the new South African crime thriller from M-Net is the ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘The Hunger Games’ star Natalie Dormer.
The South Carolina ex-lawyer stands accused of murder and elaborate cover-up schemes to protect his alleged financial fraud and prescription painkiller addiction.
The game itself is harmless but there’s a sinister story linked to its history that’s now under the spotlight.
In 1996, college student John Leonard saw a Pepsi ad about a loyalty rewards programme and a light went on upstairs.
It is treacherous to drive here as cars are not only being stoned as they drive past, but are forced to drive over objects placed in the road, which damages the vehicle and makes them stop to check.
On Monday, a German tourist was shot dead at Numbi Road near Hazyview in Mpumalanga in an attempted hijacking.
The true-crime genre is often a way to gawk at the misfortune of others. Sometimes, though, a series or podcast can lift the lid and lead to actual change.
With the COVID-19-induced restrictions a thing of the past, Cape Town’s tourism industry has a familiar foe to battle – crime.
Abrie Raaths is serving life behind bars based largely on evidence presented by his daughter, even though she’s recanted her original testimony.
Besides passionately advocating to keep impossible beauty standards alive (unless you have a heap of money), Kim also likes to advocate for criminal justice reform.
It has been more than 40 years since Lynette Dawson went missing from her home on Sydney’s northern beaches. As one of Australia’s longest-running cold cases, her body has still never been found.
On Tuesday, the Saky air base in Crimea was rocked by at least 12 explosions. Footage of people fleeing the beach was too much for the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence to pass up.
The series focuses on the true story of Anthony Templet, a teenager in Louisiana who shot and killed his father in June 2019.