Velani Ludidi

As South Africa marks International Gun Destruction Day by destroying thousands of firearms, Gun Free South Africa has warned that the country’s firearm relicensing system is in a crisis.

The Judicial Conduct Committee has ordered KwaZulu-Natal High Court Judge Elsje-Marie Bezuidenhout to apologise in writing after finding that she committed a grossly negligent breach of the Code of Judicial Conduct by taking nearly a year to provide reasons in a matter that was before her on an urgent basis.

The Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation has referred a criminal complaint against acting national police commissioner Lieutenant General Puleng Dimpane to the Independent Directorate Against Corruption for further investigation.

The City of Cape Town has more than tripled the number of security escorts provided to frontline workers as extortion, hijackings, and gang violence increasingly threaten basic service delivery.

A Free State police officer has been arrested for allegedly demanding money from a man in exchange for making an assault case disappear.

An unplanned outage has left parts of Khayelitsha without power amid frustrated residents’ ongoing battle with authorities for electricity.

Bafana Bafana and Mamelodi Sundowns midfielder Jayden Adams has died at the age of 25.

Three people who were sought in connection with the murder of South African Police Service (SAPS) constable Mvelo Gcabashe, were killed in a gun battle with police in KwaMashu, Durban, on Friday.

The long-awaited inquest into the death of Anele Tembe was postponed on Monday after the National Prosecuting Authority said the presiding magistrate had to attend to a medical emergency.

Fresh infighting and renewed disputes over routes have fuelled fears of escalating violence in Cape Town’s taxi industry after three minibuses were set alight at the Nyanga rank on Saturday night.