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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]
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 ...
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 ...
There are more than 2.7 million registered private security officers in South Africa amid fewer than the nation’s 150,000 police […] The post As police lose the war on crime in South Africa ...
"The 2021 South African unrest, also known as the July 2021 riots,[23] the Zuma unrest[24] or Zuma riots,[25] was a wave of civil unrest that occurred in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng provinces from 9 to 18 July 2021, sparked by the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma for contempt of court.[21]: 52 Resulting protests against ...
During the South Africa's hard lockdown early in the COVID-19 pandemic, crime, including rural crime, decreased. The opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) political party claimed that they increased once the lockdown restrictions were lifted. [ 49 ]
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 ...
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. [ 6 ] Between 11 and 12 July 2022, police arrested four suspects, aged between 19 and 36, in connection with the shooting. [ 7 ]