Bathandwa Mbola

Bhisho - More than 2500 unroadworthy taxis in the Eastern Cape have been scrapped to make way for new and safe taxis.

Siboniso Ntuli

Pietermaritzburg – The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Transport will be setting a number of roadblocks across the province during the Easter holiday to curb road accidents.

Lesego Madumo

Johannesburg - A strong contingent of Johannesburg metro police officers patrolled the streets of central Randburg on Thursday, clamping down on crime and by-law infringements.

Luyanda Makapela

Port Elizabeth - Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality Mayor Nondumiso Maphazi has condemned the incident in which municipal workers’ houses were torched apparently because they had not participated in the...

Bathandwa Mbola

Pretoria – Partnerships between community prosecutors, municipalities, local communities and police forums can significantly help reduce crime rates as well as anti-crime initiatives.

Edwin Tshivhidzo

East London – The Eastern Cape provincial government has embarked on a mass mobilisation campaign to encourage communities to actively get involved in the fight against crime.

Nthambeleni Gabara

Pretoria – The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has clarified speculations surrounding an anonymous letter directed to its acting head Advocate Mokotedi Mpshe.

Bathandwa Mbola

Pretoria – Personnel responsible for the coordination of the Victim Empowerment Programme at government level will be capacitated with skills and knowledge.

Werner Menges - The Namibian

THE staggering extent of corruption in the procurement department of Telecom Namibia about 10 years ago started emerging more fully as the Telecom scrap-copper corruption trial continued in the High Court in Windhoek yesterday.

Gabi Khumalo

Johannesburg – The Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality has warned job seekers against the fake adverts regarding in the jobs municipality.

Shaun Benton

Cape Town – President Thabo Mbeki moved decisively on Thursday to assuage the fears of many South Africans around the potential diminishing of the state's crime-fighting capacity, given that the ruling party has resolved to dissolve the specialised unit set up to fight organised crime, the Directorate of Special Operations, better known as the Scorpions.

SABC/Tralac

The Supreme Court of Zimbabwe has defied a ruling by the SADC (Southern African Development Community) Tribunal and found in favour of the government of Zimbabwe in a strongly contested land dispute. According to Mike Campbell of the Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa (Tralac), a company registered in Zimbabwe had applied for an interim measure at the Tribunal to interdict the Zimbabwean government from evicting it and expropriating its land.

IRIN

KINSHASA, 7 February 2008 (IRIN) - A third former rebel commander accused of committing atrocities in the Ituri district of the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been flown to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague to be tried on charges of war crimes, including murder, conscription of children and sexual enslavement, a spokesman for the tribunal said.

Edwin Tshivhidzo

Port Elizabeth – The South African Police Service (SAPS) is to set up Rail Contact Points at train stations in the Eastern Cape to help reduce criminal activity around these areas.

afrol News, 14 January - Pretoria Regional Court has withdrawn charges against the head of Scorpions in Gauteng, Gerrie Nel. The man investigating the corruption charges against Jackie Selebi, South Africa's police chief, was briefly arraigned in the court before his case had been withdrawn.

Sholain Govender

Pretoria – A date for National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi’s court appearance is expected by the close of business today.
National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) spokesperson Tlali Tlali told...

Michael Appel

Pretoria – Top police official Tim Williams has been appointed as the acting police commissioner following the National Police Commissioner, Jackie Selebi’s leave of absence.

NBC

The Regional Commander of the Namibian Police in the Kunene Region, Deputy Commissioner Mandume Shifonono has called on the community to join the police in making Kunene a crime-free region.

NBC

A total of 53 taxi drivers were arrested and put behind bars for 122 outstanding warrants of arrests, whereas 393 were charged for illegal taxi operations.

Transparency International

The divide in perceived levels of corruption in rich and poor countries remains as sharp as ever, according to the 2007 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), released by Transparency International, the global coalition against corruption. Developed and developing countries must share responsibility for reducing corruption, in tackling both the supply and demand sides.