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Sixteen men and two women suspected of being part of a gang that robbed armored vans were killed Friday in a shootout with South African police in a rural northern region. Officers approached a ...
South Africa has exceptionally high rates of murder, gender-based violence, robbery and violent conflict. [105] A survey for the period 1990–2000 compiled by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime ranked South Africa second for assault and murder (by all means) per capita and first for rapes per capita in a data set of 60 countries. [106]
Violent crime in South Africa has spiked over the past decade after a period when it decreased substantially. There were 27,494 killings in South Africa in the year to February 2023, compared with ...
6 bullet shells, 1 live round, 16 cartridges, and a 9mm pistol were found at the scene. Forensic experts, members of crime intelligence, and a tactical unit led by the Provincial Organised Crime Investigation Unit were sent to Pietermaritzburg to investigate the shooting.
Fact checkers have widely identified the notion of a white genocide in South Africa as a falsehood or myth. [7] [14] The government of South Africa and other analysts maintain that farm attacks are part of a broader crime problem in South Africa, and do not have a racial motivation.
A view shows a crime scene after at least 18 cash-in-transit robbers were shot and killed during a shootout with a specialist police unit in Makhado, Limpopo, South Africa, September 1, 2023 ...
Hijacked buildings in South Africa are abandoned or vacant buildings that have been illegally occupied by individuals or groups, often criminal syndicates. The phenomenon is particularly common in Johannesburg and Durban , where there are an estimated 200 large hijacked buildings and 250 private dwellings. [ 1 ]
The Crime Intelligence Division of the South African Police Service is an intelligence agency that tracks criminal elements within the Republic of South Africa. It is run by a Divisional Commissioner, who is also a member of the National Intelligence Co-Ordinating Committee (NICOC), to which they report. The main functions of the CI division are: