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Suspended SAPS Deputy National Commissioner Shadrack Sibiya is facing charges of rape, trafficking and sexual grooming of a minor.
POLICE ARREST

Sibiya rape case may erode public trust in fight against GBV - analyst

What happens when the people tasked with fighting gender-based violence are accused of committing it?

  • Gcwalisile Khanyile
5 min read
Cape Town's construction sector is booming — and increasingly under threat.
CONSTRUCTION MAFIA

Zero arrests, R1.5bn hit, engineers leaving: Cape Town's construction extortion crisis

Skilled engineers are leaving the country. SAPOA says construction-site extortion is why.

  • Given Majola
  • Vivian Warby
4 min read
Acting Police Minister, Firoz Cachalia says that the SAPS’s commitment to combating GBVF must apply equally within the police service, following the arrest of a Lieutenant General for alleged rape and grooming a minor. 
GBVF

Rape-accused SAPS Lt-General remanded in custody amid witness threats

A 59-year-old SAPS Lieutenant-General has been remanded at Kgosi Mampuru II after appearing in court on charges including alleged grooming, trafficking and rape.

  • Gcwalisile Khanyile
4 min read
Family and friends of Elizabeth “Tsontso” Moselakgomo gathered on Sunday in Pankop, Mpumalanga, for her funeral.
EKURHULENI WOMEN DEATHS

Ekurhuleni murders: a criminologist asks what we’re missing

Three people are appearing in the Boksburg Magistrate court today in connection with one of the murders. But what are we still missing about the nine deaths?

  • Gcwalisile Khanyile
9 min read
Members of the Zulu regiment known as the ‘Amabutho’ chant slogans as they march during a demonstration by the "March and March" movement.
EXTORTION

South Africa’s extortion surge puts foreign-owned spaza shops in the crosshairs

From protection fees to murder, South Africa’s extortion economy is spreading across businesses.

  • AFP
4 min read
Remembering Itumeleng Kekana, Dineo Evelyn Motapane and Elizabeth “Tsontso” Moselakgomo, three women whose deaths are part of the wider Ekurhuleni investigation.
GBV

Remembering the women at the centre of Ekurhuleni’s murder investigation

Three women have been identified and a ninth woman's body discovered as the Ekurhuleni murder invetstigations intensifiy.

  • Vivian Warby
4 min read
Elizabeth "Tsontso” Mokolo Moselakgomo has been positively identified as one of the five women found dead in Gauteng.
GBV

UPDATED: Two more women's bodies found, as police hunt expands beyond Kempton Park

7 women are dead and the questions are growing.

  • Vivian Warby
10 min read
The price of doing business in South Africa? South African construction industry is one of the places facing extortion syndicates. But even a hawker selling sweets is not immune to the "new tax".
SATURDAY LONG READ

Pay or perish: the extortion economy holding South Africa hostage

South Africa's latest crime statistics show 519 extortion cases in three months, but behind the numbers is a growing criminal economy.

  • Vivian Warby
8 min read
Ambassador Emmanuel Nathi Mthethwa was found dead in Paris, France in September last year.
INVESTIGATION

Nathi Mthethwa death: SA awaits official French report almost one year on

Almost a year after Ambassador Nathi Mthethwa died in Paris, the South African government has still not received an official investigation report from French authorities.

  • Manyane Manyane
3 min read