Over the past decade, the GI-TOC has documented a staggering 108% increase in targeted killings in South Africa. While South Africa has long grappled with high levels of violence, as evidenced by a...

The national park’s most-pressing challenge is no longer preventing rhino poaching but eradicating internal corruption.

Stephen Sackur is in Johannesburg with Fikile Mbalula, Secretary General of the ANC.

The country is chugging along, but the steering is broken

We must ask why most current Cabinet members and MECs need their blue lights. If they are in danger of assault or assassination it’s probably self-inflicted: the result of their involvement with the...

South Africa is awash with illegal firearms. The types of violent crime that are on the rise – such as cash in transit heists, armed robberies, assassination...

A hit on witness has been blamed on a turf war prior to Hard Livings leader's release on parole. Glynnis Underhill reports.

The Global Institute of Transnational Organized Crime recently released its second iteration of the Organized Crime Index, a scale demonstrating the presence of organised crime and resilience to the...

Three local flight schools have been added to a red flag trade list with 40 other entities deemed to be national security risks to the US

Cryptocurrency mining uses huge amounts of power—and can be as destructive as the real thing.

South Africa's presidential security chief accuses Polish officials of racism as he is stranded in Warsaw.

In the past six months alone, at least 1 800 batteries - costing on average about R250 000 each - have been stolen.

Maj-Gen Alfred Khana of the Hawks messed up the Steinhoff case and stymied the investigation into Prasa corruption. So they promoted him.

‎Show The Rhino Man Podcast, Ep Ep 6: Anton Mzimba - Life of a ranger at the Timbavati Private Nature Reserve. - Mar 7, 2022

The national park’s most-pressing challenge is no longer preventing rhino poaching but eradicating internal corruption.

The wife of the late Chief Clyde Mnisi, who was buried over the weekend, was allegedly shot and killed by unknown suspects in Mkhuhlu Mpumalanga in the early...

Rev Frank Chikane says the ANC integrity commission ‘operates at a higher level, where you deal with integrity issues, not just criminal issues’

A 10-year review report of the National Development Plan shows the government has not only failed to deal with unemployment, poverty, and inequality, it is headed in the wrong direction, overtaken by...

More than 10 hours after arriving in Warsaw, about 120 special forces, high-ranking security personnel as well as journalists were unable to disembark and head to Rzeszów.

Zama zamas just one part of a multibillion-rand organised crime economy that threatens SA By Julian Rademeyer

Not only are the police themselves often responsible for violence and criminality, but since 2009, the previous five national police commissioners have all been sanctioned for criminal acts, includ...

Acting magistrate Stanley Jacobs, who presided over and ultimately kicked out the Investigating Directorate's (ID) multimillion-rand corruption case against former Eskom executive Matshela Koko and...

The challenge of addressing illegal mining is complex and cannot be achieved with "takedown" operations and dramatic shows of force, no matter how often they occur, writes Julian Rademeyer.

The three members of the notorious Nldovu rhino poaching gang, responsible for more than a dozen rhino killings over just three years, will have to serve their 25-year prison sentences after their...

US ambassador puts president on the spot about the mystery of Lady R at Simon’s Town naval base

As construction mafias take root around the country, senior analyst and expert Jenni Irish-Qhobosheane says they are detrimental not only to contractors and projects, but to legitimate small busine...

The SA Reserve Bank was hacked by a criminal syndicate on 12 August and the local security cluster was none the wiser about the cyber-attack.

Cable theft has become a scourge in South Africa, incapacitating parastatals and costing the economy billions

The Russian leader's invasion of Ukraine has made life complicated for South Africa on several fronts.

If the two pieces of legislation currently before Parliament are passed into law as they now stand, the government will be able to monitor en masse the communications of every South African, behind a...

South Africa’s failing power utility is drowning in a tsunami of dodgy tenders, enabled by years of state capture. Over the next few weeks, News24 will reveal the identities of the senior Eskom...

Residential and memorial parks developer, Calgro M3, won't be planning any new developments in KwaZulu-Natal. It is actively trading out of the province because of the so-called construction mafia.

Four warrant officers from the police's Presidential Protection Services have been handed notices of suspension after they were caught on video allegedly assaulting people on the N1 highway in...

Former Eskom CEO André de Ruyter experienced what a vast majority of people who open cases with the police tend to find: overworked, under-resourced detectives who possibly lack the expertise to...

Update: 3 June 2023 AmaBhungane welcomes the court order issued at midday today undoing the worst aspects of the order obtained against us by the Moti Group in a secret court hearing on Thursday. The...

A complex, corrosive combination of organised crime, deep-seated corruption and toxic local politics continues to bedevil Mpumalanga, writes Julian Rademeyer

Despite an entire city and the world’s media witnessing a Russian missile attack on the capital, Vincent Magwenya claimed he saw no evidence of “so-called explosions.'

This report is based on extensive research and fieldwork conducted in South Africa, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe. The report examines the sources, markets, and types of firearms inflaming conflict and...

Metro cops check licence discs while druggies direct the rush-hour traffic

ANC councillors and the ruling party's coalition members, comprising small political parties, are looking to purchase "security vehicles" worth R25 million for yet-to-be-identified councillors and...

US is unconvinced of SA non-aligned stance and has accused Pretoria of materially aiding Russia war efforts

A truce has broken out in the notorious, gang-infested townships around South Africa's Cape Town.