Watchdog raps South Africa for failing to tackle crime
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Africa's top watchdog has rapped South Africa for failing to tackle one of the world's highest crime rates, an emotive issue for a country hosting the 2010 football World Cup.
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South Africa's tourist minister says crime may put off tourists visiting for the 2010 World Cup.
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Demands for bribes from police and other  public officials is a major problem across the developing world  and even EU countries like the Czech Republic and Greece are  major offenders, a corruption watchdog said on Thursday.
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JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 9--President Thabo Mbeki on Friday sought to reassure a worried South Africa that his government is stepping up its fight against crime but offered little new detail on how it can curb levels of rape, robbery and murder that are among the highest in the world.
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The government has made little progress in bringing child sex abusers to justice, a  charity claims.
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South Africa's African National Congress President Jacob Zuma has urged his supporters, angered by corruption charges brought against him, to avoid the kind of violence that has exploded in Kenya.
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South Africa's government long   ignored warnings about drug-resistant tuberculosis, putting   millions of HIV-positive people at risk now that a dangerous   new strain of TB has emerged, AIDS activists say.
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Britain's security services have been accused by officials from Equatorial Guinea of failing to investigate British businessmen linked to a failed coup in the oil-rich central African country, The Times newspaper said.
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South Africa's ruling ANC is criticised for a scheme charging business leaders to meet government officials.
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South Africa's "dumbest criminal" this year has been caught in the capital, police say.
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South Africa's security minister says cases of serious and violent crime in the country are unacceptably high.
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Financial institution failed to operate effective security measures to protect customers from data theft, government watchdog agency says.
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President Thabo Mbeki is set to respond to growing public unrest by acknowledging his government needs to do more to tackle South Africa's rampant crime rate in his state of the union address.
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South Africa's Thabo Mbeki is under pressure over crime but his annual speech is expected to highlight poverty.
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JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 9 -- President Thabo Mbeki on Friday sought to reassure worried South Africans that his government is stepping up its fight against crime but offered little new detail on how it can curb levels of rape, robbery and murder that are among the highest in the world.
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Not enough is being done to stop internet scams and other financial crimes stemming from Nigeria, a report says.
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JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 2 -- A series of attacks on prominent South Africans, including entertainers, business leaders and a renowned historian, has pushed a contentious, racially charged debate over crime to the center of the country's political agenda as lawmakers begin their new parliamentary year in...