Political killings raise concerns over election safety and accountability.
Posts tagged as “SAPS”
As the first light creeps over Gauteng’s gold belt, police and security officers conduct a sweep around the perimeter of a long-abandoned shaft. Just metres…
Apparently, one fateful night of 8 August 1996, Papa went to the police station where he was stationed. He booked an R-5 rifle telling colleagues that he needed it to attend to a suspect that was dangerous and heavily armed. I was told that he had to book a gun as he was no longer allowed to carry one due to his history of domestic violence which was reported to his employer, South African Police Services (SAPS)
Zulu – a close friend of the late Sindiso Magaqa who was shot in July 2017 and later died of his injuries after exposing corruption in the Umzimkhulu municipality – had previously survived an assassination attempt on 26 October 2019
When the mother of his child died suddenly in a road accident a Limpopo man found himself denied access to his child. Rolivhuwa Sadiki reports…
Radical economic transformation with the full inclusion and empowerment of women is a step in the right direction.
Terror on the farms…The family of farm resident Sholi Macu who walks with the aid of a cane and prosthetic leg has applied for a…
We suspect that trained hitmen are used in the murders of farmers because any farmer who is seen as being in the forefront against stock theft is targeted and killed
When economies slow down and there is a surge in unemployment stemming from the COVID-19 lockdowns violence against women is likely to increase due to…
The fall of the apartheid era in 1994 led to the belief that the South African Police Service (SAPS) would move on from serving the apartheid government’s interests, to serving the public. However recent altercations between the SAPS and poor black civilians in South Africa have led to a theory that the SAPS have not in fact gone through a sufficient change.