Minister’s ‘interference’ said to undermine SAPS’ restructuring and the filling of 160 000 posts
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Police minister Bheki Cele and national commissioner Khehla Sitole receive their Covid-19 vaccines as inoculation starts for law enforcement
From being axed by Jacob Zuma, Bheki Cele is now tasked with putting him in jail
The national coronavirus command council explained why additional restrictions were placed on the entire country
Mkhize’s request to take special leave left President Cyril Ramaphosa reeling, party insiders say
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The politician’s former lover is suing him and the police for her ‘unlawful’ arrest, which suggests a pattern of abuse of state resources by powerful men
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Alleged underworld figure and three others have been arrested on multiple charges, including conspiracy to commit murder and murder of a police officer.
Substance abuse has emerged as a reason for the spike in crimes during the first quarter of 2021.
Sources have claimed that the minister is still yearning to be police commissioner and is usurping Khehla Sitole’s powers
The Hawks backtrack after saying four suspects arrested last week would be charged with murder; one of their own also arrested on charges of corruption
Alleged underworld figure and three others have been arrested on multiple charges, including conspiracy to commit murder and murder of a police officer.
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
Every single year we have the same conversation about students protesting about registration problems at universities and police brutality. The two ministers are clearly inept
The president says the message to Jacob Zuma will be a simple one: respect the rule of law
The widow of Charl Kinnear submitted a petition to parliament to find out why protection services were withdrawn before her husband’s assassination
The City of Cape Town has called on the police and transport ministers to establish a police unit to investigate public transportation crimes
Bail application proceedings into murder-accused Zane Kilian are expected to resume today after many delays last year.
The governing party elite seems to have different rules for its members than the regulations imposed on citizens — and the trust deficit continues to grow
Refilwe Mtsweni-Tsipane goes into isolation and pledges to buy 1000 masks to show her ‘remorse’
MPs can’t seem to stop the house from degenerating into screaming matches, even during virtual sittings, as exhibited when the deputy president answered questions in the NCOP on Wednesday.
The murder case of Senzo Meyiwa has been postponed to next month after the appearance of the five suspects in the Boksburg magistrate’s court took an unexpected turn
Police minister Bheki Cele announced on Monday that his team has arrested five suspects who were allegedly involved in the killing of former Bafana Bafana captain Senzo Meyiwa.
The party and AfriForum staged protests outside the magistrate’s court during the bail application by two men accused of killing a farm manager in the eastern Free State
On Tuesday, Free State farmers set a police van on fire and stormed the Senekal magistrate’s court to get to the cells where two people accused of killing a farm manager were being held. The police took no action. “I want police to treat me like they treat a white man.” This was one wry […]
The death of teenager Nathaniel Julius means we urgently need to refuse to allow politicians and police leadership to protect violent officers
Backlogs, booze, testicular cancer — all factors blamed for the apparent ineptitude or unwillingness to tackle a pandemic that is silently killing women all over the country.
It’s do what we say, not what we do, as the ANC lays Andrew Mlangeni to rest
The ideological aims of the criminal justice system in dysfunctional societies, like South Africa, is to indirectly legitimise the inequitable economic system
Persistent rumours of a cabinet reshuffle may be jumping the gun, but they do reflect the political realignment taking place within the ANC
It appears that those tasked with enforcing the law don’t know it.
The minister’s media statement follows a letter from Khosa’s attorneys that they were considering a perjury charge or a complaint with the Public Protector
Despite a court-ordered deadline for the completion of the internal investigation, no explanation is given for Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula’s contradictory positions