South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...

But in South Africa, the approach to fighting crime has focused instead on arrests and on force. This is why increasing the funding hasn’t had results. The police arrested around 1.5 million ...

Crime researchers use murder (or homicide) rate per 100,000 as a crude measure of the general level of violent interpersonal ...

South Africa's police have launched a manhunt for an alleged "kingpin", who is accused of controlling operations at an abandoned gold mine where 78 corpses were discovered last week. The police force ...

Where crime is happening and what police are doing Violent crime in South Africa has consistently been highly concentrated in a small number of urban areas. For example, 20% of all reported ...

Stories of desperation and survival have emerged from survivors of the several months long standoff between miners and police ...

South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about a week after resurfacing from a disused mine in South Africa where 246 ...

The Nigerian Citizens Association in South Africa (NICASA) has condemned the death of a 40-year-old Nigerian citizen, ...

South Africa is facing a wave of extortion syndicates that have infiltrated nearly every sector of its economy.

The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has risen to at least 87, police said Thursday.

Fellow miners have accused James Tshoaeli of being responsible for some deaths underground, the police say [SAPS] ...