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KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi. (@SAPoliceService/X)
AMAPANYAZA

Provincial commissioners need more authority, KZN police chief Mkhwanazi tells Senzo Mchunu

The lieutenant-general is adamant that delegating the recruitment and structuring of police to SAPS provincial offices is crucial to quality policing

  • Des Erasmus
10 min read
Residents fetch water at a communal tap in Nyanga. (Photo by Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images)
CITY OF CAPE TOWN

Police resources might further drop in Nyanga, former ‘murder capital’ of SA

Provincial government and the City of Cape Town cannot plug the gap for national government’s responsibility for crime prevention, says DA

  • Eunice Masson
5 min read
Premier Alan Winde called for the investigation after a court judgment indicated senior police officer had worked with members of the 28 gang. (PIETER BAUERMEISTER/AFP via Getty Images)
ANTI GANG UNIT

Reinforcements sent to Cape Flats gang hotspot after multiple murders

Five people, including an alleged gang boss, have been killed in Manenberg

  • Eunice Masson
2 min read