South Africa has one of the world’s highest recidivism rates, but some offenders manage to break free of the spiral of release and rearrest. Simphiwe Jantjies (55) of Tabakbaai in Saldanha Bay, was ...

Amid escalating gang violence in Cape Town, Police Minister Firoz Cachalia argues that a state of emergency is not a simple solution. What are the long-term strategies needed to combat this crisis ...

Three suspects linked to gang-related shootings in Cape Town have been arrested. Police stress the need for swift justice ...

Sidelined Police Minister Senzo Mchunu has repeatedly cited extreme violence in Cape Town’s apartheid dumping grounds – the Cape Flats – as one of the reasons he ordered a police team’s disbandment.

Westbury in Johannesburg is well on the way to becoming the “next Cape Flats” as drugs, illegal guns and gangsterism are tearing the community apart, just as has been happening in Cape Town. Civil ...