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Ivermectin is not a miracle drug

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The health regulatory authority has not approved the antiparasitic drug to treat Covid-19, despite calls on the government to approve its use, as there is no data to support its effectiveness
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Escapees still at large amid negligence allegations at Tshwane prison

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The escape of violent offenders has exposed a slew of alleged negligent deaths at Kgosi Mampuru prison
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The price of violence: R145-billion

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The costs include expenditure on security, justice and health rather than on productive efforts, investment is driven away and psychological effects results in lower productivity
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Can our police be trusted with their weapons?

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COMMENT: Excessive force and lack of accountability characterise South Africa’s police force
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Top cop’s state-funded luxury cars

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Mpumalanga police commissioner Mondli Zuma has allegedly flouted regulations to purchase a flashy fleet.
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Johannesburg cannot police its future

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South Africa’s biggest city is ground zero for debates about the long-term effectiveness and constitutionality of militarised urban policing and how we imagine the post-Covid city
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Female cops sent for rape counselling

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Brigadier Sifiso Cele denies the rape allegations, saying that they are part of a smear campaign and that criminal charges should have been opened if the accusations were true
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Mpumalanga top cop under investigation

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Police deny allegations of a cover-up of Mondli Zuma’s accident in a state-owned luxury car
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Housing activists want probe into City of Cape Town ‘spying’

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The City of Cape Town admits it monitors the social-media pages of housing activists but denies that this is spying, as tensions surrounding land occupations increase
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Covid-19 exacerbates old electricity struggle

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The coronavirus lockdown has added new dimensions to a decades-long struggle for electricity in the far west of Soweto, where residents have challenged the situation fiercely in recent weeks
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Metro cops, SAPS clash over control

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Tensions between the City of Cape Town and the police service over responsibilities mirrors the strain between national and local government
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Scores die in Western Cape’s deadly taxi tit-for-tat

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Forty-three people were shot dead in the first six months of this year in the Western Cape’s intractable taxi violence, while close to 100 have been arrested and 40 are on court rolls in connection with the conflict
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Vigorous policing of petty crime during the pandemic suggests a Pyrrhic defeat

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The ideological aims of the criminal justice system in dysfunctional societies, like South Africa, is to indirectly legitimise the inequitable economic system
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Civil service edges closer to Covid cliff

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Public sector unions say the rampant Covid-19 pandemic will have a devastating effect on how the government is run and services are delivered
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Police brutality is government policy

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For 20 years ministers in charge of the police have been telling them to beat up or kill criminals
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Zuma won’t appear before Zondo commission on Monday, say his lawyers

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Last year the commission asked the Constitutional Court to force the former president to appear. Although ruling has not been made, the summons remains valid, but Zuma’s lawyers say they won’t honour it

Molefe blames Ramaphosa for Eskom’s woes in statement to Zondo commission

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Brian Molefe guns for Cyril Ramaphosa, alleging that the president’s relationship with Glencore was only a ploy to siphon money out of Eskom

Zondo commission: Lynne Brown reportedly says ‘eish’ when told of Zuma’s alleged Eskom meddling

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More allegations against Jacob Zuma put before the state capture commission, as the questions the former president will have to answer when he appears next week continue to stack up

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