Crime
Chart of the week: Getting guns off the streets
Nearly 22,000 guns were confiscated over the past five years. Almost 7,000 confiscated guns were linked to murder cases.
Text by Zora Hollie. Graph by The Outlier.
Charts | 19 September 2025
Police van crashes into shacks, injures two, and leaves families homeless
The families say SAPS only took their statements a week after the incident
News | 18 September 2025
Gang violence forces Kariega families to abandon their homes
More than 30 homes torched or vandalised as criminals target community leaders and witnesses in a suspected campaign of intimidation
News | 10 September 2025
SANParks deploys “boots on the ground” to deal with crime on Table Mountain
But MPs are not convinced it is enough
By Liezl Human
News | 9 September 2025
PAGAD marches against gang violence on the Cape Flats
The organisation marched under close police supervision in Mitchells Plain on Sunday
Brief | 8 September 2025
Lottery corruption case reaches court after years of delays
No progress from National Prosecuting Authority in at least another 18 cases with a further 21 under investigation by SAPS and the Hawks
News | 6 September 2025
Kariega clinic still closed seven weeks after gang shooting
Area has seen a surge in gang crime, residents say
Brief | 3 September 2025
Police officer accused of murdering man in Khayelitsha
Off-duty cop allegedly took a gun from his colleague and shot Sesethu Sigonyela
Brief | 1 September 2025
Commuters stranded in Somerset West amid deadly taxi violence
At least five people dead as tensions between CATA and CODETA boil over
Brief | 27 August 2025