When it comes to the overall crime in South Africa, Cape Town has quite the dirty little secret. Unfortunately these statistics paint an ugly picture.
We don’t often find ourselves writing about what happens in Krugersdorp, but this trail of murders is too outrageous to overlook.
A new crime stats report has released information on when the most popular time of the year is for burglaries, as well as what time of day.
A series of Johannesburg hijackings are quickly turning into shootouts, more terrifying than ever, and the latest out of Randburg involves plenty of gunfire.
There are two sides to every story, and it appears the folks involved in this altercation have very different accounts of what led to this brawl.
It happens all the time – but when you see CCTV footage of a high school held up at gunpoint for a phone in broad daylight, damn, son.
For the first time during court proceedings the man dubbed the ‘Springs Monster’ finally showed overt emotion. Forgive me if I’m not all that moved.
If you haven’t heard of the ‘Springs Monster’ consider yourself fortunate, because the alleged levels of abuse suffered at the hands of the barbarian in question are almost beyond belief.
A shocking discovery in Pretoria has once again highlighted the issue of illegal abortion here in South Africa, and just how rife the practice is.
Let this be a warning to y’all criminals out there – you may think you’ve got away with your ill deeds, but sometimes justice takes a little longer than expected.
There’s a whole load of harmless fun a set of identical twins can have, and then there’s a clear case of when you’ve taken things a little too far.
As criminals become wilier, so must law enforcement agencies develop new techniques to catch them. As you can imagine, U.S. Homeland Security is leading the way.
Leave it up to an 18-year-old Australian girl to attempt to replace the mugshots being used on social media, then get arrested in the process.
The Southern Suburbs (and other areas of Cape Town) know all about being hit by the Crowbar Gang, but now we finally know how they work.
Petty theft is rife in the Brazilian capital, and it points to a massive socio-economic problem that stems from the political unrest destroying the country.
In just over a week Pokemon Go has been downloaded and installed more times than Tinder. That’s scary, but now criminals are getting crafty too.
Using various CCTV cameras, the City’s Camera Tracking Unit was able to arrest a suspect on the ground. The footage of how they did it is amazing.
With a recent funding round providing a further two years of startup growth, South Africa’s fastest growing social network has never been more exciting.
We’re often critical of the SAPS, but this time around they managed to use the evidence to lock up two criminals.
Be warned that this doesn’t make for pretty viewing, and if you break it down by city it’s even worse for us Capetonians.
Sometimes justice can be a swift and cruel mistress, like when you’re caught red-handed on a train with nowhere to run.
There’s no doubt that crime stats in South Africa are high AF and we should all be alarmed. Here are those nitty gritty details.
Do you know about the fastest growing areas of crime? One that knows no borders, yet whose threats cause harm world wide? Well, you should.
It’s not every day you see footage of a cash in transit heist from the Free State, so watch closely and you’ll see these baddies in action.
The wheels of justice look they may be swift this time around, arrests in the case of slain jogger Franziska Blöchliger taking place.
The quiet Cape Town suburb of Tokai was rocked yesterday by the news of a gruesome murder, taking place in broad daylight along a popular jogging route.
Sometimes a crime is so brazen you can’t help but be shocked, like waltzing into someone’s house and robbing them whilst they show you around.
Everyone loves wearing a nice watch around the wrist, although sometimes that doesn’t end up working out as we plan.
It appears no one is safe from the NPA, not even a man who happened to pass away back in 2012. There’s a reason for their decision though.
It looks like this oke was fed up with the law taking a dim view of his love of the herb, finally deciding to take a stand in the middle of a high-speed chase.