Jacob Zuma and Nathi Mthethwa will meet this week to discuss the appointment of a permanent police national commissioner, Mthethwa’s spokesperson said
Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa will name on Thursday the head of the Directorate of Priority Crime Investigation which will replace the Scorpions.
The army could be brought in to help the police fight crime, Minister of Police Nathi Mthethwa said on Sunday.
The re-appointment of Nathi Mthethwa as minister of the newly named police department is a ”positive step”, the SA Police Union said on Monday.
The head of the police division replacing the Scorpions will only be appointed next month, the Safety and Security Department said on Friday.
Cope will ask the Public Protector to probe the reported R1-million spent on protecting Jacob Zuma every month, Mvume Dandala said on Tuesday.
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/ 9 February 2009
Safety and Security Minister Nathi Mthethwa claimed on Monday that about R100-million has gone missing from the accounts of the Scorpions.
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/ 14 January 2009
The Scorpions have secured subpoenas against police officers, ordering them to surrender evidence in the Selebi case, a media report said on Wednesday
Minister of Safety and Security Nathi Mthethwa said on Monday that the public’s perception of police corruption was correct.
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/ 29 December 2008
ANC president Jacob Zuma on Monday urged tougher legislation against all forms of crimes in a country where over 50 murders are committed every day.
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/ 1 December 2008
Corruption and ill-discipline in the police service will not be tolerated, Safety and Security Minister Nathi Mthethwa said on Monday.
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/ 12 November 2008
The new ”get tough” approach to fighting crime was elaborated on on Wednesday by Nathi Mthethwa, the new Minister of Safety and Security.
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/ 30 October 2008
South Africa, suffering from one of the world’s highest rates of violent crime, is turning to private security firms to help make the streets safe.
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/ 25 October 2008
Politicians will have significant say over what
the new super SAPS unit investigates.
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/ 3 February 2008
Fear now stalks the corridors of African National Congress (ANC) power as the party’s new president, Jacob Zuma, asserts his authority in Parliament, the provinces and the party structures, the Sunday Times reported. ANC MPs made their anxiety known in a closed meeting of the ANC’s parliamentary caucus on Thursday.
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/ 24 January 2008
African National Congress (ANC) parliamentary Chief Whip Isaac Mogase was on Wednesday removed from his position by the party’s new leadership. Briefing reporters after the party’s caucus met at Parliament, ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe said Mogase would be replaced by ANC MP Nathi Mthethwa.
The ANC’s national executive committee elected its 28-member national working committee (NWC) on Monday. Get the complete list of NWC members here, as well as the names of the eight ANC members who will form part of the ad hoc committee to draw up a report on the arms deal.