Police Violence

Review: Bloody Sunday: The Nun, the Defiance Campaign and South Africa’s Secret Massacre by Mignonne Breier

A recent report shows that racism has cost the US economy $16-trillion in growth over the past two decades. If the financial-services industry wants to show that Black Lives…

One in three sex workers in South Africa say they’ve been raped by a police officer. Could a change in the law solve this?

‘This is America’ comes amid the world’s leisurely smartphone view of the United States’ ongoing political and cultural pandemonium.

Have South Africans become inured to heavy-handed police action in response to protests, as it did during apartheid and back in the colonial conquest?

SA remains a relatively dangerous country in which to serve as a police officer, despite a 52% drop in the rate of cop killings over the past decade.

The Democratic Alliance thought it would strike while the iron is hot and lead another march to the provincial treasury in Limpopo.

New web archives give the public access to the full range of evidence from the Farlam commission.

And they will continue to abuse their power until accountability and structural problems are fixed.

They presented a list of new demands, including raising the fees funding cap to R900 000.

The shooting took place outside the university’s careers and counselling development unit.

Ironically, they ignore ample research about how protests turn violent when policing escalates.

Reporting is essential in a democracy but police and demonstrators don’t always see it that way.

The likelihood of being offed, especially if it’s linked to politics and power, is pretty high.

‘Tensions are on the increase and we are very concerned.’