The rules this site lives by
Written down so that anyone, a contributor, a journalist, a family member, a police officer, can hold the site to them.
1. Public facts only
Every statement on this site comes from a published news report, an official SAPS or government statement, a court record, or peer-reviewed research, and links to it. If it can't be sourced, it isn't here.
2. No suspects. Ever.
The site does not name, describe, hint at, or accept submissions about any person as a possible perpetrator, including people the police have arrested. It publishes no composite, identikit or AI-generated image of a "suspect" and no behavioural "profile"; the only descriptions or images that will ever appear are ones SAPS itself releases, reproduced exactly. Crowds naming suspects have destroyed innocent lives (the Boston Marathon case is the textbook example) and can wreck a prosecution. South African defamation law is unforgiving, and rightly so. If you know something about a person, it goes to 082 465 7249, Crime Stop 08600 10111 or the MySAPS app, not here.
3. Victims are people
Names appear only when SAPS or the family has made them public. No photographs of victims, no details of their private lives, no speculation about why they were where they were. A family's request to remove a name is honoured without argument.
4. Say what you don't know
A "found" date is not a death date. A pin is a neighbourhood, not a spot. "Half-naked with bruising" is what a spokesperson said, not a post-mortem. Every pattern carries its caveat, and the site never publishes a geographic "profile" of where an offender might live.
5. Nothing goes live unreviewed
Every community contribution sits in a queue until a named moderator approves it. Automatic checks refuse submissions that contain phone numbers, ID numbers, vehicle registrations or language about a person, but the human is the real gate.
6. Don't get in the way
This site does not contact witnesses, families or officers, does not visit scenes, and does not organise searches. It organises the public record. If SAPS asks for something to be taken down because it harms the investigation, it comes down first and the reasons are discussed afterwards.
7. Corrections are welcome and visible
Wrong date, wrong place, wrong age, say so. Discrepancies between sources are listed openly on the Sources page rather than quietly picked.
8. No surveillance, of anyone
The site does not store tips (they go to SAPS, see Give a tip), does not track visitors beyond anonymous page counts, and does not partner with facial-recognition or number-plate-tracking systems to look for "suspects". The Emergency page's location-sharing runs entirely on your phone; nothing is sent to this site. AI is used only to summarise the public record, and every AI-generated text is labelled and reviewed by a person before it appears.
Who runs this
A volunteer public-information project run from South Africa. It has no connection to SAPS, to any news outlet, or to the victims' families, and it makes no money. Contact details for the site owner are in the footer of the repository README.
Legal note
This site republishes short factual extracts and links from published reports under fair-dealing principles for news reporting and public interest. It does not publish the identity of any accused person; once anyone is charged, coverage of them is left entirely to the courts and the press. Personal information of contributors is limited to an optional nickname; no email addresses or IPs are published or shared.