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Police minister Bheki Cele is releasing the quarterly crime statistics on Friday.

After years of dealing with a crippling DNA backlog, police minister Bheki Cele has announced it has finally been cleared.

While the lawyer for the couple charged with the murders of British botanists Rodney and Rachel Saunders in 2018 says he will apply for the removal of the lead prosecutor in the trial, he hasn’t said on what grounds this application will be made.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has acknowledged that a reduction in security sector state funding, which crime analysts warned of over the years, was problematic and has promised change.

The two men involved in the attempted murder of East London K9 Warrant Officer Pieter “Swanie” Swanepoel and security specialist Darren Saayman have been sentenced to an effective 25 and 22 years’ imprisonment respectively.

Dakota Johnson stars as a paramedic with gifts in a Spider-Man universe film; local celebs and comedians try to out-funny each other; and the serial killer cases of SA's first criminal profiler are dramatised in 'Catch Me A Killer'

There was high drama along the Eastern Cape coastline this week in two separate incidents in which a man drowned, another went missing and three others were rescued.

Major-General Nolitha Tito was welcomed by police in the Eastern Cape as the latest addition to the management team in the province, taking up the position of deputy provincial commissioner for support services.

Parents protested outside JG Meiring High School in Goodwood, Cape Town, in outrage over the stabbing earlier in the week of a grade 11 pupil outside the property.

The woman who opened the rape case against Sifiso Mkhwnanazi which allegedly triggered him to kill sex workers could not be traced when police started their investigation after the discovery of six bodies.