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Suspended police minister Senzo Mchunu. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

Mchunu’s chief of staff says national commissioner ordered search and seizure to destroy evidence

Nkabinde claimed the purpose of the operation was to delete crucial evidence that would disprove Mkhwanazi’s allegations

(Alinanuswe Mwanguku/AFP)

Road to Tanzania’s presidential election paved with blood and fear

In recent months, there has been a spate of abductions, assaults, arrests and murders, the victims all being opponents or critics of President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s government

Left to right: Regan Naidoo’s aunt Cookie Thaver, his uncle Jeffery Mahalingan, his father Timothy Naidoo, cousin Andrea Naidoo, his widow Kerosha Naidoo and another cousin Keenan Naicker. The trial of 17 police officers for his death in custody has again been postponed. (Benita Enoch)

Frustration mounts as case against 17 cops who allegedly tortured, killed Chatsworth man is again postponed

Police said Regan Naidoo ‘choked on a pie’, but according to a postmortem report, he suffered multiple rib fractures, bruised lungs and a blunt force head injury

Memories: A scene from Dreamscape, a play about the life and death of
teenager Tyisha Miller, who was shot by police in California.

Play moves between dreaming and escaping

American play Dreamscape finds parallels in South Africa

The Independent Police Investigative Directorate is investigating police brutality after a man in Kensington, Cape Town, was allegedly dragged by a vehicle while handcuffed over the weekend.

Ipid investigates man being dragged by police van

Members attached to Kensington police in Cape Town are under investigation for alleged police brutality

The country saw considerable amounts of inhumanity during the lockdown period. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Editorial: Return humanity to us

When people are robbed of their dignity, it should not be a surprise that agents of the state feel it is acceptable to beat the consciousness out of a man on the side of the road

Mbalula: Don’t blame ANC for highway police brutality

The ANC secretary general said the country would ‘forever’ remember the VIP police protection unit assault

Protester hold hands to barricade the protesters from the men of the Nigerian Police force as protesters march at Alausa Secretariat in Ikeja, Lagos State, during a peaceful demonstration against police brutality in Nigeria, on October 20, 2020. Authorities of Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sonwo-Olu has imposed a 24-hours curfew on the state effective 4pm on Tuesday, due to the violent attacks on police officers and innocent Nigerians.  (Photo by Olukayode Jaiyeola/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Nigeria: Ensure accountability for attacks on peaceful protesters by security forces

State security forces act with seeming impunity despite constitutional protections for citizens

President-Kassym-Jomart-Tokayev. (Kazakhstan President Press Office/TA

Suisse Secrets: The Kazakhstan president’s offshore stash

Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has sought to distance himself from his predecessor, but his family has its own secrets: Moscow apartments, Swiss bank accounts — and a money trail that…

Portia Ncoko, a close friend of the late Dumisani Joxo, holds his Bluetooth speaker. She says he was ‘a man of the music speaker box’. Photograph: Chris de Beer-Procter

Dumisani Joxo: Another senseless law enforcement killing

Dumisani Joxo’s neighbours, friends and relatives speak highly of the man allegedly shot and killed by a City of Cape Town law enforcement officer.

Undeterred: Whistleblower Thabiso Zulu sleeps in different locations every night to evade assassination.  (Rogan Ward)

Story of a whistleblower: ‘Baba, do you think you are about to die?

Whistleblower Thabiso Zulu can’t explain his situation to his son, but continues to expose wrongdoing and show solidarity with others

(John McCann/M&G)

Who do the police serve and protect?

From their creation during colonisation to now, they have served the wealthy against the many

Nathaniel Julies’s parents look on during the bail hearing of the three accused of killing him in 2021. (Photo by Sharon Seretlo/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Police murder trial: 189 metal pellets killed Nathaniel ‘Lokkies’ Julies

At least 65% of the pellets in the cartridge hit the 16-year-old when he was gunned down in Eldorado Park, Johannesburg, allegedly by in-training constable, Caylene Whiteboy

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Editorial: South African cops need policing

Our collective apathy towards public order policing has had deadly consequences, especially for the poor

Simon Scorpion Nyalvane, Caylene Whiteboy and Voster Netshiongolo appear at Palm Ridge Magistrate?s Court on October 06, 2021 in Palm Ridge, South Africa. The police officers  are implicated in the murder case of Nathaniel Julies (16) and face several charges including murder, perjury, defeating the ends of justice and unlawful possession of ammunition. (Photo by OJ Koloti/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Eyewitness in Nathaniel Julies murder trial fails to identify shooter

‘He was eating something. Then we heard a gunshot go off.’ This is what Tahira Kaldine testified in court on Wednesday at the Nathaniel Julies murder trial