When the municipality allocates its budget, it spends proportionally far more on the rich than the poor areas
The lieutenant-general is adamant that delegating the recruitment and structuring of police to SAPS provincial offices is crucial to quality policing
In a few years the township will ‘disappear’, and Khayelitsha will become a city, believes one local entrepreneur
As long as there’s no political will to change policing in this country, there is not much that can be done, say civil rights activists
Measures such as better street lighting, training the police and enforcing gun control can effect real change
Is the township safer five years after a commission of inquiry into policing issued recommendations on how to make it better?
The dramatic events in Parliament over the past two days have put Police Commissioner Riah Phiyega’s position under severe pressure.
Judge Robert Henney found Angy Peter and her co-accused guilty of premeditated murder. Their bail was withdrawn and they will stay in police custody.
Khayelitsha activist Angy Peter and her co-accused have been found guilty of murder. The M&G spoke to Peter days before judgment was handed down.
Dan Plato, Western Cape Minister of Community Safety, drafted a plan of action to implement the findings of the Khayelitsha Commission of Inquiry.
Problems with policing in Khayelitsha include unanswered phones, no patrols and only an estimated 1% of cases resulting in convictions, says a report.
Public hearings of the Khayelitsha commission of inquiry have concluded, with the Social Justice Coalition asking to find the police inefficient.
There is a lack of leadership for combating corruption in the SAPS, an expert witness told the Khayelitsha commission of inquiry.
Justice Kate O’Regan has hurried along the advocate for police at the time-constrained Khayelitsha commission of inquiry.
Police oversight should include matters such as how budgets are spent and not just how officers treat civilians, the Khayelitsha commission has heard.
The list of the most resource-stricken police stations looked similar to "an apartheid list", O’Regan tells Khayelitsha Commission of inquiry.
A commission of inquiry has heard that police stations in Khayelitsha are still under-resourced, which is a factor for the performance of police.
While the Marikana hearings continue in Rustenberg, in Khayelitsha another commission into police failings is cautiously gathering momentum.
