Crime

Readers step in to help boy who was shot by stray bullet

School fees raised for Manenberg teen

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Brief | 31 January 2018

A Manenberg mother’s desperate struggle to save her son

Shereen Adams fought for her son’s life when he was shot during gang violence. Now she’s fighting to keep him at school.

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Feature | 29 January 2018

“It is me who must fix the police” says Mbalula

Mogale City: police minister promises quick action against drug dealers and corrupt cops

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News | 24 January 2018

The forgotten mining town where rape is “normal”

Women and children bear the brunt of lawlessness at Durban Deep

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Feature | 16 January 2018

Police failed to protect us from mob justice, says Eastern Cape family

Man’s house burned down after he was accused of a stabbing which never took place

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News | 9 January 2018

Marikana shooting claims two lives

Gunmen open fire in tavern

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Brief | 8 January 2018

Accused acquitted in high profile Khayelitsha murder case

Sinoxolo Mafevuka was murdered when she went to the toilet at night

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Law | 19 December 2017

Court frees man convicted of murder because of incomplete trial record

Judgment will put pressure on lower courts to get their record-keeping right

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Law | 15 December 2017

Paramedic: “We are scared of the community we work for”

Paramedic Sibusiso Mthethwa was shot dead outside Edendale Hospital in June

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Brief | 14 December 2017

Rape survivors deserve privacy in court, says Rape Crisis

Call for Khayelitsha to have a special sexual offences court

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News | 5 December 2017

We save people, but who is saving us from crime? ask paramedics

Unions march to Parliament to demand protection

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News | 5 December 2017

Security guards do nothing as Metrorail commuters robbed

Guards had batons, while robbers had firearms

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Brief | 27 November 2017

Kraaifontein sports complex stripped by vandals

City says it will cost one million rand and take three years to restore

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Brief | 22 November 2017

Popular Khayelitsha coffee shop closed by burglary

Owners of Department of Coffee are hoping to reopen if they can raise the capital to replace stolen coffee machines

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Brief | 21 November 2017

Court bid to lift time limit on sex crimes

Constitutional Court hearing application today

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Law | 14 November 2017