JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South African President Cyril Ramaphosa placed police minister Senzo Mchunu on immediate leave of absence on Sunday, following accusations by a top police official that he had ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A South African top security official accused the police minister and a deputy national commissioner of ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has suspended police minister Senzo Mchunu and announced an investigation into allegations that he has been colluding with criminal syndicates.

Gang-related crime in South Africa is widespread, but is under-reported outside hotspots such as the Cape Flats in Cape Town ...

Violent crime in South Africa has spiked over the last decade after a period when it decreased substantially. There were 27,494 killings in South Africa in the year to February 2023, compared with ...

A data analysis by The New York Times shows that a form of torture popular during apartheid endures in the country despite ...

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 ...

South Africa has some of the world’s highest rates of violent crime, with casualty figures mounting like those in a small war. The country had slowly whittled down its murder rate since 1995 ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Thamsanqa Mothobi was going about his life in Johannesburg when he was carjacked and taken to an informal settlement where robbers accessed his mobile banking apps. “They ...

The private security industry in South Africa is booming as police struggle against record levels of crime.