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(Article by Lesego Masemola at www.iol.co.za) Police are trying to locate the family of a suspected house robber who was armed with a toy gun and killed while trying to run away from the police at the weekend. The suspect is believed to be in his early twenties and it is thought that he is from Mame...

(Article by Sharika Regchand at www.iol.co.za) Just hours after a police officer in a convoy allegedly caused an accident by shooting out a tyre on a car, which failed to get out of the fast lane on the N3, a similar convoy later harassed motorists on the highway. The constable, belonging to an MEC&...

(Article at www.iol.co.za by Caryn Dolley) Instead of spending a few days relaxing in Cape Town with his wife on their honeymoon, a Brazilian tourist was horrified to discover that thousands of rand had been stolen from his suitcase in a hotel room. The Southern Sun Waterfront Hotel and police are n...

(Article at www.iol.co.za by Hans Pienaar) Independent Foreign Service South Africa has consistently under-performed in fighting crime, and its insensitive approach is exemplified by Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi remaining in his post despite a strong prima facie case of corruption against him. ...

(Article by Mpume Madlala at www.iol.co.za) Police say they will not be intimidated by controversial statements made by senior taxi officials who threatened to “shoot back” at police who impound their taxis and use force against them. More than 40 taxis from the North and South Beach tax...

(Article from www.iol.co.za) A Nongoma high school teacher was shot dead, allegedly by hijackers in northern KwaZulu-Natal, police said on Tuesday. The teacher was a passenger in a car when the incident took place on Monday afternoon, about a kilometre from the Mbombo High School in Nongoma, where h...

By Angela Quintal (www.iol.co.za) The Scorpions still have a place in the government’s law enforcement plan, given that organised crime remains a threat and needs to be addressed through an effective strategy, says Judge Sisi Khampepe . This was a key finding of the judge, tasked in 2005 to lo...