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/ 21 December 2011
Presidential adviser Zizi Kodwa is suing the police for R5-million after he was wrongfully arrested for drunk driving on November 11.
Coordination between the police and thousands of private security firms has led to a reduction in serious crimes, says Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa.
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/ 25 October 2011
Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa says acting national police chief Major General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi must ignore criticism on his temporary appointment.
‘Constant negative public scrutiny’ has prompted a review of the severity of force used when responding to protest action, the police minister says.
Buoyed by positive crime stats, the police chief has come back fighting, sources claim.
The department of cooperative governance and traditional affairs is seeking a chartered accountant to rescue it from its worst financial crisis.
Nathi Mthethwa has stymied a bid in Parliament to uncover the truth behind a car crash mystery allegedly involving fellow minister Sicelo Shiceka.
The number of murders in SA declined by 6.5% in 2010/2011, with 15 940 cases being recorded, according to annual police crime statistics released
Crime is down according to statistics for the past year, and people who don’t believe the good news are "cynics", says Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa.
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/ 8 September 2011
South Africa’s murder rate dropped by 6.5% to 15 940 murders in 2010/11, Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa said on Thursday.
Nathi Mthethwa has warned municipal officials against corruption, saying law enforcement agencies are ready to deal with graft and catch culprits.
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.
Numsa is convinced Irvin Jim’s leadership ambition is placing his life in danger.
The jogger who was allegedly interrogated by President Jacob Zuma’s bodyguards has yet to receive an apology.
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.
Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula is likely to move further up the greasy pole if, as is strongly rumoured, President Jacob Zuma shuffles his Cabinet.
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.
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.