Alleged 28s gang boss Ralph Stanfield, his partner Nicole Johnson and three co-accused, including his alleged hitman, will likely spend Christmas and New Year's Eve behind bars.

The lead investigator in the abduction of alleged Isis leader Abdella Abadiga from the Mall of Africa in December — allegedly by South African military special forces — has been killed.

Kidnapping cases have increased dramatically over the past year as a lucrative alternative to armed robbery

'She tried to reverse but panicked, and the car keys fell out of the ignition'

A suspected Nigerian drug supplier was arrested in Table View linking Nigerian organised crime to Mitchell’s Plain Numbers Gang

It is the first time SA authorities convicted an organised crime group for drug-related offences, and the ruling sets a case law precedent

Rwandan genocide accused Fulgence Kayishema claims he is a refugee in South Africa and he has "heard" of the Rwandan genocide.

The killing of Kamenov and his family was strikingly similar to his Bulgarian associates murdered several years earlier

Three Nigerians who lived it up on a luxury estate on Johannesburg's West Rand now face the possibility of 20-year jail sentences in a US prison after allegedly stealing $6.3m (R116.3m) from businesses through sophisticated scams.

Investigators have linked a seventh man to a syndicate involved in the 2021 kidnappings of two foreign nationals in Paarl and Cape Town.