Crime
How FNB enabled people to join the SGK pyramid scheme
Bank employees signed up new customers at an SGK recruitment site
News | 31 July 2026
Church band instruments worth R100,000 stolen and sold for scrap
Cape Town youth brass band pleads for help
News | 28 July 2026
Lesotho citizens lose millions to SGK pyramid scheme
Popular app promised guaranteed returns for watching videos – and then stopped paying out
Feature | 23 July 2026
Has the army deployment in Cape Town made communities safer?
Parliament gears up for inquiry into gang violence next month
Feature | 21 July 2026
Parole officers are drowning in cases
Just 933 officers for 82,000 parolees and probationers
Chart by The Outlier. Text by GroundUp Staff.
Charts | 10 July 2026
Explainer: How “money mule” scams work
We asked the banks what they are doing to combat this type of fraud
By Nathan Geffen and Joel Cedras
Explainer | 8 July 2026
Police torture case postponed for state to get an interpreter
A man who was beaten on CCTV by police has had to travel to a Cape Town court from the Eastern Cape each time at his own expense
Brief | 6 July 2026
Malawian church torched and immigrants chased from their homes in Gqeberha
Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality says it has assisted repatriate nearly 400 Zimbabwean nationals
News | 3 July 2026
Deadline for SAPS to stock child rape kits at Western Cape police stations
Parliamentary oversight visits found shortages of sexual assault evidence kits and discrepancies in police stock records
Brief | 30 June 2026