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The South African Police Service on Wednesday was unable to tell parliament’s portfolio committee on police exactly how many of its officers were not competent to carry firearms. (RAJESH JANTILAL/AFP via Getty Images)

Confronting the power of the police

Accountability, insofar as it ever existed in the South African Police Service, has been reduced to a theoretical concept. It is time this changed.

Jackie Selebi is one of many police commissioners to leave in disgrace.

Why it’s critical to appoint the right person as next police commissioner

Law enforcement cannot function adequately if its leadership structures are dysfunctional

Hungani Ndlovu and Khathu Ramabulana ricochet from mirthful clowning to urgent, existential despair and back again. (Photo: Suzy Bernstein)

Pass Over: Waiting for nothing less than a shift

Playwright Antoinette Nwandu’s response to Waiting for Godot is a crystal-clear directive: stop killing us

Police brutality: Citizens are just as much to blame

Even though it is the officers who carry out the physical force, it is our prejudice that lays fertile ground for the abuse of power to entrench itself

Even when their brutality is caught on camera and shown on television, officers seem to walk away scot-free

What will it take for the police to stop killing our citizens?

Even when their brutality is caught on camera and shown on television, officers seem to walk away scot-free

CCTV footage used to nab Mthokozisi Ntumba’s alleged killers

The cops accused of killing Mthokozisi Ntumba during the Wits student protests last week will spend another week in custody as the NPA opposes bail

Students block Johannesburg roads in protest over university fees. Students took to the streets of Johannesburg early on Monday to continue their protests about fees as 26 universities across SA braced for a national shutdown. Students, countrywide, demonstrated demanding that those who are in debt be allowed to register and that historical debt be wiped out. (Photo by Ihsaan Haffejee/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Teargas, bleeding knees and burning tyres: A day in the protest for free higher education

Police shot at students who had been peacefully marching in the streets of Johannesburg during the first day of the national shutdown on Monday

Police violence: A life stolen

There’s a darkness on the streets – and it is not caused by Eskom – as the cops unleash a new wave of unnecessary violence

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Editorial: Fix the problem, Cele, Blade

Every single year we have the same conversation about students protesting about registration problems at universities and police brutality. The two ministers are clearly inept

Cabinet approves additional funding for student financial aid scheme

Funds will be diverted from the higher education department to help cover the NSFAS shortfall

Wits VC pleads with Nzimande for guidance

The installation ceremony of Professor Zeblon Vilakazi has been postponed as student protests escalate and a by-stander is killed