Business Against Crime is a South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

n organisation consisting of usually corporate businesses that have collaborated to unroll several crime-fighting initiatives, notably the CCTV network set up in the Johannesburg

Johannesburg

Johannesburg also known as Jozi, Jo'burg or Egoli, is the largest city in South Africa, by population. Johannesburg is the provincial capital of Gauteng, the wealthiest province in South Africa, having the largest economy of any metropolitan region in Sub-Saharan Africa...

 city centre.

The organisation was established in 1996 in response to a request from then President Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, and was the first South African president to be elected in a fully representative democratic election. Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist, and the leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing...

who invited business to join hands with the Government in the fight against crime. The organisation seeks to support Government's efforts by complementing its resources with the considerable entrepreneurial, managerial and technological skills for which the South African private sector is renowned.