The army has been deployed to five of South Africa's nine provinces for a year-long operation.

Commercial crime is the only major crime category in South Africa -- other than kidnapping -- that police statistics show growing relentlessly, year after year. Billions of rands are being lost to ...

South Africa has deployed troops to the streets of the country's biggest city to help police fight gang violence and illegal ...

South Africa's crime crisis has reached alarming levels, with over 26,000 deaths annually. Parliament's call for military ...

A look at South Africa's extreme move to deploy the army to fight crime, by the numbers - South Africa’s president has authorized a yearlong deployment by the army to fight crime in some of the countr ...

South African soldiers moved into gang-ridden Cape Town townships on Wednesday, as two people were killed in fresh violence, ...