A judicial commission of inquiry into police brutality should be established after a taxi driver died in police custody, the DA said on Sunday.
The National Council of Trade Unions has called on Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa to take responsibility after the death of taxi driver Mido Macia.
The Gauteng government has said that it will offer assistance to the son of the Daveyton taxi driver who died in police custody, says an official.
The police officers seen dragging a Daveyton taxi driver behind a police van have been suspended, says National Police Commissioner Riah Phiyega.
A second autopsy of a minibus taxi driver who died, allegedly at the hands of the police, has been considered.
South Africans were horrified when footage surfaced showing police handcuffing a man to a police vehicle and dragging him about 400m down the street.
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A taxi driver from Mozambique has died after being dragged by a police van and then beaten to death in Daveyton, says a report.
In 1998, South Africa signed the UN Convention against Torture. In so doing, the country undertook to take internal measures to prevent torture.
Six of the 10 officers asked to attend an identity parade in connection with the assault of Lonmin miners in custody were positively identified.
As the Lonmin story unfolds, the M&G takes a closer look at how the tragic circumstances played out.
A police watchdog body has said it would lay charges against a worrying number of police officers who failed to report wrongdoing.
Insiders say the case against 12 Western Cape Hawks policemen is sensitive because it could affect others in which the officers were involved.
This YouTube video shows a police officer allegedly assaulting a suspect in Vaalwater, Limpopo.
The ICD will investigate a case of police brutality in Vaalwater, Limpopo after cellphone footage of an officer assaulting a suspect surfaced.
Under Bheki Cele’s watch, our police service has become the most violent it has ever been, says <b>Verashni Pillay</b>.
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/ 17 February 2012
The Independent Complaints Directorate has confirmed the arrest of a student constable accused of killing a teenage boy in Soweto.
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/ 16 February 2012
Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa has called for a speedy investigation into the alleged shooting of a Soweto teenager by a police officer.
Growing outrage over the killing of a Soweto teenager, apparently by a student police officer, has put police brutality under the spotlight again.
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/ 14 January 2012
Police officers are now not allowed to use rubber bullets or shotguns on protesters after reports of excessive violence being used on demonstrators.
Activists have accused police of assaulting and laying false charges against UPM’s Ayanda Kota in retaliation for his anti-government stance.
Suspicion surrounds the circumstances that led to a man under arrest dying in hospital.
Photographers say police are preventing them from doing their jobs properly by harassing, assaulting and detaining them, just for taking pictures.
The deadly force by police in Durban that left six criminals dead has reignited concern about the alarming levels of police violence in KwaZulu-Natal.
Police brutality has become more prevalent at service delivery protests in the past two years, the Independent Complaints Directorate said on Tuesday.
When a population is afraid of its own protectors, all the factors contributing to police-on-civilian violence must be examined.
A <i>Mail & Guardian</i> investigation has turned an alarming spotlight on SAPS’s heavy-handed, military-style approach to the training of recruits.
According to statistics provided by the ICD, the South African police force is the most violent it has been in more than 10 years.
Bail was on Wednesday refused to a Kempton Park policeman accused of shooting dead a woman outside the local police station.
Pretoria police officers have been caught on CCTV cameras kicking and punching an unarmed man, media reports said on Monday.
The eight policemen accused of killing protester Andries Tatane were refused bail in the Ficksburg Magistrate’s Court on Friday, the ICD said.
The case against a police sergeant accused of shooting dead a woman outside a police station was postponed on Friday.