Marius van der Merwe was shot dead three weeks after accusing police officers of killing a robbery suspect.

South Africa's president has authorized a yearlong deployment by the army to fight crime in some of the country's ...

It was the first major deployment since President Cyril Ramaphosa said in his annual speech to the nation last month that he ...

South Africa is preparing to deploy soldiers to help tackle gang violence and illegal mining, challenges the police have struggled to contain.

Scores of people who occupied municipal land in Ennerdale Extension 7 are demanding answers from the municipality after their homes were demolished this week. They say about 50 structures were ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Two former apartheid-era police officers in South Africa were found guilty of murder Tuesday in the 1987 killing of activist and student leader Caiphus Nyoka. Nyoka’s ...

Despite a staggering R121 billion investment in policing, South Africa grapples with one of the world's highest murder rates, ...

SAPS has failed to pay for a biometric firearm management system and the interest alone is costing taxpayers approximately R1 ...

It's an unusual move for the African continent's leading democracy: South Africa's president announced that he will deploy ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A mass shooting carried out Saturday by multiple suspects in an unlicensed bar near the South African capital left at least 11 people dead, police said. The victims ...