The South African Police Service report stated it was still in the process of holding accountable those accused of criminal conduct during the July 2021 unrest
There is no place for the “masterminds” and “instigators” of the failed July 2021 “insurrection” to hide because the police will track down, arrest and prosecute them for crimes such as treason and inciting public violence, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Friday. He made this promise during his five-hour testimony before the South African Human […]
Instigators took to social media to stoke fears among police officers, the police minister told the South African Human Rights Commission hearings on Monday
The police minister said he received no formal crime intelligence briefings despite it being clear that the ‘dark clouds were gathering’
Ramaphosa’s dithering, as well as a failure by the country’s intelligence and police services, aided the two-week carnage
‘The whole operation … was a process of confusion and a total lack of command … and control’
As the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) concludes its first leg of the inquiry into the July unrest in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng, the testimonies have laid bare the dysfunctional state of South Africa’s justice, crime prevention and security cluster. During the inquiry, members of the cluster engaged in buck-passing and blame-gaming, with no one […]
The police minister told the Human Rights Commission the president instructed him to avoid violence in response to Jacob Zuma’s pending arrest as far as legally possible
Whoever organised the unrest in response to the pending arrest of Jacob Zuma was responsible for the lethal violence that followed, the KZN police commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi said.
Minister of police only receives information from national commissioner that relates to him, commission hears