Gabi Motuba’s music stretches beyond jazz, transforming grief, memory and resistance into a spiritual sonic language rooted in black life and liberation
Accountability, insofar as it ever existed in the South African Police Service, has been reduced to a theoretical concept. It is time this changed.
Law enforcement cannot function adequately if its leadership structures are dysfunctional
The nascent Setsoto Service Delivery Forum is confident it can remove the ‘failing ANC’ in the chronically mismanaged Free State municipality
Our collective apathy towards public order policing has had deadly consequences, especially for the poor
With high-profile savagery by the police becoming routine, what can be done to transform our broken relationship with law enforcement?
Even though it is the officers who carry out the physical force, it is our prejudice that lays fertile ground for the abuse of power to entrench itself
Even when their brutality is caught on camera and shown on television, officers seem to walk away scot-free
Despite fighting so hard for it, South Africans don’t seem to understand how democracy works
Taking its cues from the dimming of the hope suggested by rainbowism, ‘A New Country’ attempts to articulate the depths of betrayal South Africans feel
The department is fighting with a small Free State town, which it accuses of continuing to employ an illegal immigrant
‘Less lethal’ weapons have resulted in deaths and severe injuries, yet there are still no guidelines
In South Africa, police brutality and violence affect black, working- class lives in particular. We must dismantle this systemic oppression
An escalation of intelligence-led operations and a wish to use military weapons give insight into increasingly violent strategies of the SAPS.
The South Human Rights Commission has been criticised by MPs over its finding on the killing of Free State protester Andries Tatane.
