Cyber Crime in South Africa

While steps are being taken to respond to rising cyber crime, which is now among the world's fastest growing crimes, numerous factors indicate that the risk of falling victim has grown immensely.

There is general consensus that cyber crime is any crime that is committed by means of a computer device which is linked to other computers through the Internet.

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