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With Christmas just a week away, authorities are bracing for a surge in traffic volumes on major roads as more people start their festive break.

Alarm bells have been sounded over Buffalo City Metro’s apparent inability to protect vital infrastructure after metro staff were reportedly chased off sewage treatment and water infrastructure sites by vandals and scrap metal thieves. Local activists and opposition councillors have accused the city of failing to address the crime, neglecting to make necessary repairs and ignoring the ticking environmental and health timebombs caused by effluent flowing into watercourses because of non-functi....

The state of the train control infrastructure in Nelson Mandela Bay is buckling under the pressure of frequent vandalism, theft and blatant attacks on railway workers.

Sunday Times journalist Hendrik Hancke describes the bittersweet experience of travelling on a relaunched Prasa long-distance train.

Police Minister Bheki Cele said the police must go out there to serve and protect.

A fleet of security vehicles will patrol key routes between Gauteng and the North West after three attacks on tourist buses by hijackers this month.

An armed suspect was arrested on popular Cape Town tourist destination Lion's Head in the early hours of Thursday after being pursued by a canine during a sting operation.

Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis walked in the footsteps of crime victims in Table Mountain National Park on Thursday, determined to help make the tourist attraction safe.

We are faced with a pandemic of a different nature - rampant and escalating levels of violent crime

South African National Parks says there will be increased visibility on the ground, in the sea and air to bolster the safety of visitors to Table Mountain National Park.