Last week, the South African Police Service (SAPS) released the annual crime statistics that gave insight into the current situation within communities. The statics showed an increase in contact crimes, which includes murder, attempted murder, assault and sexual offenses. The stats, however, reflected a decline in sexual offenses in Limpopo and[…]
The City of Cape Town’s Social Housing Unit has arrested over sixty people since the start of the year in connection with illegal housing occupation. Mayoral Committee Member for Safety and Security, Alderman JP Smith, says the unit was established in 2012 to curb the illegal occupation of council owned[…]
The pre-trial court hearing of Christopher Panayiotou and his three co-accused will commence on Monday in the Port Elizabeth High Court. During the initial pre-trial hearing, Advocate Hanlie Bakker, who represents accused No 2 Sizwezakhe Vumazonke, told the court that he was medically unfit to start the pre-trial hearing. Panayioutou[…]
Acting National Police Commissioner, Lieutenant-General Khomotso Phahlane, says South Africa is experiencing a downward trend in crime. Speaking on Morning Live, Phahlane says South Africa has a problem when it comes to contact crime. “It is where murders are aggravating, robberies, hijackings and so on, but the overall picture is[…]
A number of South Africans have added to the call for President Jacob Zuma to resign by writing their own open letters. Posted to the Facebook page ‘Protect Our Beloved Country’, the letters are a mix of simple one-liners, longer essays, and pleas from some who voted for the ANC[…]
The #OccupyLuthuliHouse movement said on Monday that the threats of violence it received from some quarters of the ANC, and the “baffling” security measures outside the party’s headquarters resembled tactics used by the apartheid regime. The movement said in a statement that because it wasn’t naïve to the threats, it[…]
At least 18 people were killed and dozens wounded in a series of bombings across mostly government-controlled areas of Syria on Monday, state media reported. The blasts hit government-held Tartus and Homs, as well as Hasakeh, which is mostly controlled by Kurdish forces but where the government maintains a presence.[…]
The government of South Sudan agreed on Sunday to accept 4,000 extra peacekeepers in a bid to avoid an arms embargo threatened by the United Nations Security Council, but said the details of the deployment were still being discussed. The announcement came after a meeting in the South Sudanese capital,[…]
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov were unable to strike a deal for a ceasefire in Syria and differences remain, a senior State Department official said after their meeting in China on Monday. Kerry and Lavrov met on the sidelines of the G20 summit[…]
Counting is under way in Hong Kong’s key Legislative Council (Legco) elections – the first since the so-called Umbrella Revolution of 2014 – after record numbers of voters cast their ballots well past midnight. About 90 per cent of votes had been counted by 9:30am local time (01:30 GMT) on[…]
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