Jessica Foord, a 22-year-old woman who was gang-raped in Durban, has spoken up bravely about her ordeal – and has also become an inspiring motivational speaker in her campaign for the rights of rape-victims. Her rapists were sentenced to long prison sentences in Durban on March 16 2009. Uniformed pupils holding candles gathered outside the Durban High Court in South Africa Monday ahead of the... 

With these words a black police inspector from Tembisa on the East Rand allegedly scolded the victims of an armed robbery and hijacking attempt in Kempton Park on Monday night. This officer, whose name is known to Beeld, apparently refused to arrest a black suspect on the scene. He also refused to open a case after Nic Lubbe, 51, from Kempton Park West, his daughter, Antoenet Cronjé, and her two... 

Daphne Boshoff from Kameeldrift, north of Pretoria, mourns the loss of her husband Renier who was murdered in their home. A woman from crime-ridden Kameeldrift, north of Pretoria, lay bound next to her murdered husband for about four hours on Tuesday before managing to free herself. Three armed robbers broke into the house at about 02:00 on Tuesday and killed Renier Boshoff, 67, with a shot to the... 

Cape Town – Almost half of South Africans are less confident about peaceful co-existence with people of other race or ethnic groups than they were in 2007, according to survey results released on Thursday. The survey, the SA Reconciliation Barometer, was conducted in April and May on behalf of the Cape Town-based Institute for Justice and Reconciliation. IJR staffer Jan Hofmeyr said it showed... 

At least 12 people have been killed in the South African city of Johannesburg since Friday in a wave of violence directed at immigrants, police say. Police have used tear gas and rubber bullets to try to stop gangs of armed youths from attacking foreigners and looting and burning their property. Five people were killed overnight in the area of Cleveland. Two of them were burned and the others beaten... 

I’m a northern European medical doctor. A senior surgeon, working in the public sector of South Africa. I have done so the last 5 years. I do not want to speak outside my discipline, so this will be about the medical demise of SA. Most visitors to South Africa, who encounter the public health sector, do so by visiting a hospital or a clinic in or near the big cities. What they get to see is a hospital... 

Jannie Fourie in hospital after he was shot nine times in 2008. This is IOL.co.za’s version of what happened: A Woodhill man is in a critical condition in hospital, following a shooting during a house robbery on Tuesday, Pretoria police said. Spokesperson Captain Phillip Lekoantsane said robbers entered a house in Mooikloof Gardens around 2am where a couple was asleep. “The couple heard a noise... 

Eugene Terreblanche, announcing the relaunch of the AWB Some great news, or perhaps not such great news, depending on one’s perspective (and skin colour) is that the AWB yesterday announced its reactivation. The besieged White community is crying out for some firm, no bullshit leadership in this its dark hour. Whether such leadership will come from the likes of Eugene Terreblanche remains to... 

Perhaps the greatest challenge currently facing post Apartheid South Africa is that of violent crime on a scale that assails the civilized mind with a ferocity that defies description. One of the most frequently asked questions these days is why the violence in SA? Why do these criminal swine resort to extreme violence and often torture in the perpetration of usually petty crimes like the theft of...