Crime
Anger at UCT vice-chancellor over campus safety
Students say the university is not doing enough to protect them
News | 3 September 2019
Langa councillor’s home petrol-bombed
Police are investigating cases of arson, attempted murder and public violence
By Vincent Lali
News | 2 September 2019
Hundreds protest in Booysens Park to be moved to “safer areas”
Resident of Vastrap informal settlement have previously expressed their unhappiness with high crime rates in the area
Brief | 28 August 2019
Protesters demand Western Cape crime summit
Threats of “a national protest and a possible tax revolt” if government does not respond
Brief | 27 August 2019
Unions march against crime in Motherwell
“Residents are only quick to blow whistles when they want to protest, but fail to blow the same whistle when they see criminals” says police colonel
Brief | 22 August 2019
Murderers of Bangladeshi shop owners in Newcastle convicted
Immigrant shop owners welcome life sentences for murderers of Mosharaf Hosain and Limor Mir
Brief | 20 August 2019
Commuters left stranded by Metrorail in Cape Town
“Every day when I arrive at work I am already exhausted because of the shoving and standing inside the overcrowded trains.”
Brief | 19 August 2019
Women neighbourhood watch members lead crime fighting in “most dangerous” communities
“We decided that we couldn’t depend on the police to do everything”
News | 19 August 2019
Prayer meeting held for shot teenager
Sinazo Kleinbooi, 14, was shot and killed on her way home from school
Brief | 15 August 2019