Officers say there is no daily parade, no work plan and no duties are delegated to them. They have no ticket books and they lack even a card identifying them as officers
But community safety MEC denies there is a vehicle shortage, while staff are allegedly threatened for speaking out.
Budget cuts means many Gauteng officers officers are on full pay for doing nothing.
An inquiry into a recruitment fitness test that led to the deaths of eight aspiring traffic cops in Pietermaritzburg is due to continue on Tuesday.
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/ 19 September 2007
Tiny fish swim beside the dugout canoes that residents use to escape their flooded homes, riding the water gushing through the streets of Soroti, an eastern Uganda town. Across Africa, torrential downpours and flash floods have submerged whole towns and washed away bridges, farms and schools.
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/ 13 September 2007
Most of the world’s 1,2-billion Muslims celebrated the start of the holy month of Ramadan on Thursday as Indonesians prayed for the victims of a massive earthquake that rocked Sumatra island a day earlier. The start of Ramadan, the holiest month of the Muslim calendar, is traditionally determined by the sighting of a new crescent moon.