HIGHWAY ARSON SAPS hunt 12 in truck arson wave as Police Minister rejects links to July 2021 riots 3 min 11 By Ed Stoddard
SAPS IN CRISIS Cops can’t be trusted to turn around SA’s decades-old trajectory of firearm control failures – new report 7 min 1 By Caryn Dolley
SOLUTIONS OFFERED DA’s Glynnis Breytenbach proposes six ways to fix SA’s justice system 4 min 8 By Victoria O’Regan and Chuma Nontsele
BY-ELECTION Not so fine in Finetown — sewage runs in streets while residents go to the polls 5 min 1 By Nonkululeko Njilo
ROAD TO 2024 ELECTIONS Mbalula warns Western Cape ANC: ‘You are fighting for nothing and yet the power is gone’ 5 min 31 By Velani Ludidi
ISS TODAY OP-ED Police corruption linked to rural stock theft impacting livelihoods and food security 4 min 0 By ENACT for ISS Today
CRIME STATS Statistic of out-of-control violence - 969 women murdered in South Africa in just three months 3 min 10 By Vincent Cruywagen
PARLIAMENT Bheki Cele’s police budget highlights progress, but opposition points out gross failures 3 min 0 By Vincent Cruywagen
Letter From The DM168 Editor President Cyril Ramaphosa's Gun-Spree South Africa turns New Dawn into darkest night 3 min 6 By Heather Robertson
SAPS IN CRISIS ‘An unmitigated firearms crisis’ — Parliament hears cops are firing blanks on proper firearm control 3 min 8 By Caryn Dolley
LETTER FROM THE DM168 EDITOR Tortured Durban, a city with a gun to its head 4 min 3 By Heather Robertson
BOOTS ON THE GROUND Mayday, Mayday — 3,000 new crime fighters to hit the streets of Gauteng 3 min 3 By Michelle Banda
GROUNDUP Shack dwellers proclaim ‘Freedom Day is for rich people’ as hundreds march in Durban 3 min 0 By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik for GroundUp
ISS TODAY OP-ED SA’s multiple murders a mark of nation’s spiralling gun and organised crime crisis 4 min 0 By David Bruce
REPEAT VANISHING ACTS ‘He simply didn’t exist’ — Aaron Motsoaledi explains how Thabo Bester slipped through Home Affairs cracks 5 min 8 By Caryn Dolley
GROUNDUP Thabo Bester escape — ministers and officials on the ropes in scramble to answer MPs’ questions 4 min 4 By Daniel Steyn and Marecia Damons
GROUNDUP Thabo Bester prison escape — MPs pull no punches as G4S defends reputation in Parliament grilling 5 min 0 By Marecia Damons and Daniel Steyn for GroundUp
GROUNDUP Thabo Bester and Nandipha Magudumana back in SA and behind bars 2 min 10 By Daniel Steyn and Marecia Damons
ORGANISED CRIME REPORT More than two assassinations weekly in SA, with targets becoming ever more high-profile 6 min 1 By Caryn Dolley
GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS OP-ED Thabo Bester saga illustrates the state disintegration that endangers the public 8 min 4 By Raymond Suttner
GROUNDUP Thabo Bester and Nandipha Magudumana arrested in Tanzania 3 min 10 By Daniel Steyn and Marecia Damons
