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In South Africa, the Municipal Police are the separate police forces maintained by some municipalities for law enforcement in South Africa. Municipal police forces are responsible for traffic policing and enforcing local bylaws within the municipality, and work in co-operation with the South African Police Service to prevent crime and maintain ...
South Africa has exceptionally high rates of murder, gender-based violence, robbery and violent conflict. [103] A survey for the period 1990–2000 compiled by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime ranked South Africa second for assault and murder (by all means) per capita and first for rapes per capita in a data set of 60 countries. [104]
Hijacked buildings in South Africa are abandoned or vacant buildings that have been illegally occupied by individuals or groups, often criminal syndicates. The phenomenon is particularly common in Johannesburg and Durban , where there are an estimated 200 large hijacked buildings and 250 private dwellings. [ 1 ]
The $1.4 million scheme Dell and his accomplices carried out is only a drop in the bucket. Retailers suffered more than $112 billion in losses due to shrink last year alone, according to the ...
The Federal Council of Retail and Allied Workers (FEDCRAW) is a trade union representing workers in the retail sector in South Africa. The union was founded on 8 August 1984 as a split from the Commercial Catering and Allied Workers' Union of South Africa, led by officials who were employed at Edgars in Dobsonville. It soon expanded to cover ...
Khutsong is a township on the West Rand of South Africa, and scene of widespread unrest starting in February 2006. [2] It is situated north-west of the town of Carletonville, [3] in the Merafong City Local Municipality of the Gauteng province, just west of the Abe Bailey Nature Reserve.
The Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (DPCI), commonly known as the Hawks, is the branch of the South African Police Service which investigates organised crime, economic crime, corruption, and other serious crime referred to it by the President or another division of the police. [1]
Hillbrow (/ ˈ h ɪ l b r oʊ /) is an inner city residential neighbourhood of Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, South Africa. It is known for its high levels of population density, unemployment, poverty, prostitution [2] and crime.