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The teacher, who spent a weekend in custody, will now seek damages from the minister either through negotiation or a further trial. File photo

Gauteng teacher wins case against police minister after unlawful arrest, detention

Police were unaware of the law and a national instruction that gives them discretion in dealing with domestic violence arrests

As Oscar Pistorius left the witness box this week

Let’s redirect our Oscar Pistorius outrage to the broken and unbalanced justice system

Editorial: Even if Pistorius goes to jail for the rest of his life, it won’t fix the broken, failing and unbalanced justice system.

Police commissioner rejects SAIRR report on SAPS criminality

Riah Phiyega has rejected a South African Institute for Race Relations report on police involvement in serious and violent crimes as "malicious".

Lack of trust cripples fight against crime

Lack of trust cripples fight against crime

A commission of inquiry has highlighted the massive task facing the SAPS and the community.

A suspect is arrested in East London in November 1952.

Police must learn to make protest work

They must assume that people want to deliver messages – and help them to do so.

Khuli Chana shooting a symptom of inept ‘use of force’ policy

When musician Khuli Chana was shot by the police on Monday morning, the officers may themselves have been unclear on whether they were acting legally.

One thousand cops have been arrested for crime since 2010.

One thousand cops arrested since 2010

One thousand police officials have been arrested for crime in the past three years, says Gauteng police commissioner Mzwandile Petros.

Crime stats rot spreads

Disillusioned senior officer quits and blows the whistle on the alleged fiddling of case dockets.

Hewana’s behaviour ‘not in line with official conduct’

Former Goodwood police station commander Siphiwe Hewana’s interference with the Tony Yengeni drunken-driving docket was not common practice for SAPS.

French journo ‘brutalised’ by metro cops

SA police are investigating a case of police brutality aimed at an award winning French journalist, after her ordeal made headlines in France.

Cops in torture death probe

Fifteen members of the Western Cape’s top crime-fighting unit are being investigated for murder, writes Pearlie Joubert.