Traffic Police
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The traffic department that hasn’t issued tickets for years
Officers say there is no daily parade, no work plan and no duties are delegated to them. They have no ticket books and they lack even a card identifying them as officers
Gauteng’s stay-at-home traffic cops will get cars next year
But community safety MEC denies there is a vehicle shortage, while staff are allegedly threatened for speaking out.
Patrol car shortage grounds Gauteng traffic cops
Budget cuts means many Gauteng officers officers are on full pay for doing nothing.
Inquiry into cop recruits’ fitness test fatalities resumes
An inquiry into a recruitment fitness test that led to the deaths of eight aspiring traffic cops in Pietermaritzburg is due to continue on Tuesday.
Africa floods: ‘We don’t know what tomorrow will bring’
Tiny fish swim beside the dugout canoes that residents use to escape their flooded homes, riding the water gushing through the streets of Soroti, an eastern Uganda town. Across…
World’s Muslims celebrate start of holy month
Most of the world’s 1,2-billion Muslims celebrated the start of the holy month of Ramadan on Thursday as Indonesians prayed for the victims of a massive earthquake that rocked…