Officials admit total includes hundreds of senior officers who have committed murder, rape and theft Demonstrators call for justice for the 34 mineworkers killed by police at Marikana. A year on from the massacre the…
APRIL 30, 2015 LEAVE A COMMENT top1 The IPID Act was signed into law on 12 May 2011. IPID is an independent organisation that reports to the Minister of Police and functions independently of…
Police Brutality in South Africa by David Bruce From the report Police Brutality in Southern Africa – A Human Rights Perspective by Mwanajiti, N., Mhlanga, P., Sifuniso, M. Nachali-Kambikambi, Y., Muuba, M and Mwananyanda, M…
Credit: INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPERS Hendrik Grobler sits in his wheelchair which he has been confined to as he recovers from injuries sustained from Moot police station members. Picture: Sizwe Ndingane 26 May 2011 at 09:26am…
08 AUG 2014 00:00 JANE DUNCAN Deliberate political decisions have been taken to move South Africa towards repression, writes Jane Duncan. In his budget speech last month, Police Minister Nathi Nhleko promised to demilitarise the…
18 SEP 2014 11:09 DANEEL KNOETZE A new SERI report found that the criminal justice system was “abused” in order to intimidate activists and protesters. A new report by Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI) profiles…
GroundUp Staff 10 June 2015 Police in action during the eviction of shack dwellers in Philippi East’s “Marikana” settlement in August 2014. Photo by Daneel Knoetze. In a feature titled The Counted, The Guardian is…
Published: 27 August 2013 The South African Police Service recently admitted that hundreds of serving police officers are convicted criminals. The figures are shocking but they fail to reveal the full extent of criminality in…
2015-09-23 14:38 Ahmed Areff, News24 (File, Nielen de Klerk, News24) Johannesburg – The number of private security officers has more than tripled that of police officers since 1997, the South African Institute of Race Relations…
28 JAN 2015 12:50 SARAH EVANS Riah Phiyega has rejected a South African Institute for Race Relations report on police involvement in serious and violent crimes as “malicious”. The South African Police Service (SAPS)…
