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Alex Patrick is a Sunday Times and TimesLIVE reporter with a keen interest in crime, environmental and socioeconomic issues.
Since 2018, 55 of 187 people arrested, have been convicted for the murder of police officials.
As law-enforcement officers struggle to halt the rampant theft of precious metal and copper, often stolen from infrastructure, police have recorded some successes.
Hawks head Lt-Gen Godfrey Lebeya on Tuesday gave a list of the top 45 cases the organisation had dealt with since 2018.
After strangling Nomsa Tshabalala with her bare hands, Nomaswazi Tshabalala buried her in the garden.
Police have arrested nine more people linked to the July unrest last year.
The Hawks are dealing with 22,477 cases with more than 500,000 charges, says Lt-Gen Godfrey Lebeya.
Gauteng's "national shutdown" will begin on Tuesday and end on Wednesday — the day of the nationwide protest.
The 2022 African Youth Survey found that 81% of South Africans registered concern about GBV in the country.
A police officer accused of raping a 17-year-old girl at the Kei Mouth police station will make his first appearance at the Komga magistrate's court in the Eastern Cape on Tuesday.
In three months, 1,098 women and children were killed in SA.
Murder in SA increased by 11.5% during the first quarter of the 2022/2023 financial year, says police minister Bheki Cele.
Alcohol is still one of the biggest contributors to crime.
Police should think twice before making fraudulent claims. This was a hard lesson to learn for a former cop slapped with a R10,000 fine for R4,000 fraud committed in the Northern Cape.
Western Cape police are searching for a grade R schoolboy who was kidnapped on Wednesday in Kensington, as the community rallies around the family.
"Late spring is expected to have above-normal rainfall countrywide, with significant rainfall expected over the north-eastern parts of the country as we move to the summer months."
