There is ‘growing concern’ about increasing levels of gangsterism and organised crime in the Western Cape
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Members attached to Kensington police in Cape Town are under investigation for alleged police brutality
The deputy president’s convoy consisted of seven vehicles and only two pulled off, the police minister told parliament on Wednesday
The Randburg magistrate’s court ruled the state had a weak case against granting bail and postponed the matter to 27 September
Phineas Molefo Boshielo is one of eight officers accused of assaulting three military trainees on a Johannesburg highway
Eight police officers linked to deputy president face charges of assault, malicious damage to property and discharging a firearm near Fourways
Police minister Bheki Cele has still not commented on the brutal beatings
The national police commissioner said protection service members needed to be ‘retrained’ and ‘talked to’
The ANC secretary general said the country would ‘forever’ remember the VIP police protection unit assault
The South African National Defence Union said the victims have been told not to discuss the matter with the police while the Independent Police Investigative Directorate holds its inquiry
IPID has identified the victims of the beatings as military trainees
An investigation into Mpumalanga’s police commissioner has allegedly been concealed
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The Independent Police Investigative Directorate advised that disciplinary proceedings be instituted against police officials
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Dismissed employees’ experiences suggest that there are illegal money-making activities within the police service
Correcting historic faults, the minibus taxi industry must become regulated and stop overtrading
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Party calls for special police unit to investigate officers accused of victimising GBV survivors
Illegal miners, who have been fighting to get mining permits, risk arrest and even death in confrontations between the police and security firms
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However experts warn that SAPS’s R100.6-billion annual budget should be better spent and monitored
The firearm believed to have been used by the sergeant in the shooting was reportedly stolen soon after the incident
In Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe torture is used to extract information, elicit confessions, punish or sometimes for sadistic reasons
Afrobarometer reports that confidence in the police has halved over the last 10 years, with 73% of respondents saying they have little to no trust in the police
The alleged intransigence of the national police commissioner Khehla Sitole in working with police watchdog Ipid could see him removed from office
At least one of the officers may be linked to the theft of 1.5-million rounds of ammunition from a warehouse during the July looting and violence
Former top cops file applications to contest the ‘unreasonable delays’ in their fraud matter, also known as the ‘blue-light’ tender
In Madlala, the police and army broke into homes in an operation to retrieve stolen goods. After they left, a woman lay dead in a pool of her blood behind a shack
The Independent Police Investigative Directorate found no misconduct was committed by police who used a water cannon on a crowd outside the Sassa office in Bellville, Cape Town
Even when their brutality is caught on camera and shown on television, officers seem to walk away scot-free
South African authorities were poised to add rape charges to those faced by Bushiri in mid-November when he skipped bail and the border to return to Malawi
Prosecutors’ extradition request details how Bushiri allegedly raped women as young as 17
The installation ceremony of Professor Zeblon Vilakazi has been postponed as student protests escalate and a by-stander is killed
The man was shot as police clashed with Wits students in Braamfontein. The protesters are demanding that no students be financially excluded
An examination of South African statistics reveal that the police are substantially more violent than those in the United States or Canada