OPINION: The implementation of the National Development Plan policing policies is overdue, including de-militarisation, improved training and, of crucial importance, ...
Whistleblower and former ANC Youth League Harry Gwala region secretary Thabiso Zulu testifies at the Moerane Commission. Zulu is a corruption fighter who has fought ...
Most South Africans live in fear of rampant violent crime, with confidence in policing plunging to an all-time low of 21 percent in 2021/22. Under successive ministers, ...
Anti-Gang Unit police. IPID needs a judicial oversight body, and an independent inquiry into documented abuses involving its staff in defeating the ends of justice. ...
OPINION: Were South Africa to reintroduce the death penalty, there is little doubt that it would be poor people-not criminal politicians-who would face the gallows ...
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Serious problems in crime intelligence stem from politicised management, where orders are given by the minister of police, who is in gross breach of the Constitution ...
‘Far more telling evidence against you is your appointment (and, extraordinarily, in July 2021, retention of) Minister of Police Cele, for it is patently obvious ...
However, far more telling evidence against you is your appointment (and, extraordinarily, in July 2021, retention of) Minister of Police Cele, for it is patently ...
OPINION: Hardened criminals can act with impunity because South Africa has become a criminalised state, in which officials use political office for personal enrichment ...
OPINION: Hardened criminals can act with impunity because South Africa has become a criminalised state, in which officials use political office for personal enrichment ...
OPINION: The DA could do South Africa a favour by using constructive mechanisms such as courts to force Ipid independence, rather than pursuing an agenda for more ...
OPINION: Our political leaders show no indication of taking their oath of office to uphold the Constitution seriously, writes Mary de Haas.
By Mary de HaasThe main reason for the abnormally high rate of violent crime in South Africa is because most citizens do not receive the protection from crime which ...
OPINION: If the SAPS, under Police Minister Bheki Cele’s direction, continue to act above the law, South Africa is heading down the police state road, writes Mary ...
Is it not obvious from what happened last July that retaining Cele in his present position is a threat to national security? asks Mary de Haas.
OPINION: Pressure must be exerted on all elected officials to act urgently against the lack of proper parliamentary oversight, writes Mary de Haas.
Those not living in fear of politicians and the police, as so many vulnerable community members do, have a duty to hold public representatives and parliament and ...
OPINION: Those not living in fear of politicians and police, as so many vulnerable community members do, have a duty to hold public representatives, and parliament ...
Security through policing is far too important to be left to politicians, writes Mary de Haas.
OPINION: A broader based network could assist local groups when there are overwhelming problems as, for example, following up serious cases such as murder. Security ...
OPINION: While ANC provincial leadership condemns the violence, it needs to deploy its senior members to monitor meetings, and ensure that all those engaging in ...
OPINION: The roots of the devastation in KZN and Gauteng lie in the criminalisation of the state and the weakening of the criminal justice system combined with grinding ...
OPINION: There have been extremely high levels of abuse by the police for many years, so it was a foregone conclusion that those inclined to this type of conduct ...
The policing crisis is but one manifestation of a criminal justice system which is near to broken. If priority is not given to fixing it, the consequences for democracy ...