Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After South Africa’s first democratic elections in 1994, there was significant optimism about police reform in the country.

A suspect believed to be the gunman in the murder of Madlanga Commission witness, Marius van der Merwe, was arrested in ...

SAPS has failed to pay for a biometric firearm management system and the interest alone is costing taxpayers approximately R1 ...

South Africa's Police Minister Firoz Cachalia has said that the security forces are not yet able to defeat deadly criminal gangs, in a stark admission that underscores the scale of the country's crime ...

JOHANNESBURG — South Africa’s top law enforcement official said Friday that President Trump wrongly claimed that a video he showed in the Oval Office was of burial sites for more than 1,000 white ...

Johannesburg (AP) — Police in South Africa on Wednesday said they had arrested 11 people, including many suspected of being illegal miners, and were seeking a potential connection to Sunday’s shooting ...

The primary responsibility for curbing police corruption lies with SAPS leadership - not external agencies like the Independent Police Investigative Directorate.Since the Madlanga Commission and ...

It's an unusual move for the African continent's leading democracy: South Africa's president announced earlier this month ...