Police say a racial connection should not be made to the Facebook picture showing a man posing with a rifle over an apparently lifeless body of child.
Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa on Saturday denied reports that he was asked to provide security for Numsa secretary general Irvin Jim.
The jogger who was allegedly interrogated by President Jacob Zuma’s bodyguards has yet to receive an apology.
Numsa is convinced Irvin Jim’s leadership ambition is placing his life in danger.
Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa says the recent spate of cop killings can’t be blamed on the police’s tough stance on crime and "shoot to kill" policy.
In the wake of the Public Protector’s report on the leasing scandal the state has forbidden the departments affected to speak directly to the press.
Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula is likely to move further up the greasy pole if, as is strongly rumoured, President Jacob Zuma shuffles his Cabinet.
SA’s police did not sign up to be slaughtered by elite paramilitary criminals — we need to fight fire with fire, says top cop General Bheki Cele.
The HRC has told Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa to apologise to the Cape Town jogger who showed President Jacob Zuma’s motorcade a middle finger.
Politicians, not the police, should be sent to defuse service delivery protests in disillusioned communities, says former Cabinet minister Jay Naidoo.
Public Protector Thuli Madonsela herself might be a pawn in a wider political battle.
SA editors have asked for a meeting with the police minister after a journalist was warned that he would be killed by hit men wearing police uniforms.
Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa will look for a solution to police killings in an upcoming summit with various organisations and forums, he has said.
Sicelo Shiceka has been told that he will be removed from Cabinet, senior ANC sources told the <i>M&G</i>.
A <i>Mail & Guardian</i> investigation has turned an alarming spotlight on SAPS’s heavy-handed, military-style approach to the training of recruits.
Cabinet has expressed its alarm at the steady rise in the number of police officers killed by criminal elements.
The South African Human Rights Commission on Tuesday condemned the killing of police officers in the line of duty.
Police operations will be intensified in four "hot spot provinces" ahead of the May 18 local government elections, the police minister said on Monday.
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The death of a protester in Setsoto, Ficksburg, on Wednesday, apparently at the hands of riot police, is not an isolated incident.
It’s "inappropriate" to draw conclusions at this stage on what led to the death of a protester in a scuffle with the police, the police minister says.
The ANC wants Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa to probe the alleged beating of a man to death by police during a protest in Ficksburg in the Free State.
Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa and police chief Bheki Cele have been notified that the lawyer for fraud-accused Radovan Krejcir is suing the state.
Allegations that crime intelligence boss Lieutenant-General Richard Mdluli was involved in a 1999 murder appear to have set off a propaganda war.
Police will "thoroughly" investigate a special unit’s alleged assault and intimidation of patrons at a Hillbrow bar, the police minister says.
The police minister has refused repeated requests by the HRC to respond in detail to the arrest of 25-year-old Chumani Maxwele.
The investigation into a controversial visit by two police officers to the Public Protector’s offices last week is still underway, police said.
Senior office bearers of Popcru disagree with union’s blanket support for the commissioner.
Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa warned on Wednesday that violence in strikes and protests will be punished.
An SA Institute of Race Relations study on South Africa’s corrupt police is "misleading", Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa said on Monday.
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Psychological services need to be boosted within SAPS to ensure members can fully carry out their duties, Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa said.
ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema cost taxpayers more than R886 000 for police bodyguards, it emerged on Tuesday.