Policing

Key takeaways: IPID’s cover-up of police brutality

There were over 42,000 criminal complaints against the police from April 2012 to March 2019, and only 531 successful prosecutions

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News | 7 October 2019

Viewfinder: IPID’s cover-up of police brutality in SA

Public records, government data, whistleblowers and victim testimony have converged to show how crimes by police officers have not been investigated properly

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Feature | 7 October 2019

Two crime hotspots still without permanent police stations

Five years after Khayelitsha Commission of Inquiry, recommendation to build new station still not implemented

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News | 27 September 2019

March against crime in Khayelitsha

Residents demand better policing to combat gender-based violence

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Brief | 26 September 2019

Concourt orders Minister of Police to pay R300,000 for wrongful arrest

Judges reaffirm right of accused to be brought to court within 48 hours

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Law | 25 September 2019

Completed in 2014, this police station has never been used

Villagers battle crime while new police station stands empty

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News | 20 September 2019

“Too poor to be treated”: Gugulethu residents demand better healthcare

Residents march to clinics and police station

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News | 5 September 2019

Still no police station five years after Khayelitsha Commission of Inquiry into policing

Police ministry and SAPS continue to fail the vulnerable and the poor, says activist

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Brief | 26 August 2019

Women neighbourhood watch members lead crime fighting in “most dangerous” communities

“We decided that we couldn’t depend on the police to do everything”

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News | 19 August 2019

Eyewitnesses describe police beating a man who had a mental disability

IPID appears not to have interviewed key witnesses

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Feature | 13 August 2019

Spike in vigilante killings in Port Elizabeth

Police say communities resist investigations

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Brief | 7 August 2019

Mothers of slain children march in Cape Town

Protest commemorates children killed by crime and gang violence

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News | 1 August 2019

Sea Point arrest complaint substantiated says police ombudsman

But two months after Esethu Mcinjana was arrested, still no word from SAPS

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Brief | 1 August 2019

Activists highlight how state capture affects everyday life

Collapse of Metrorail and policing is hurting poor people

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News | 28 July 2019

GROUNDVIEW: Popular, maybe necessary, but deploying the army in townships resurrects terrible memories

We hope that it will be a temporary and effective measure; the verdict is out

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GroundView | 19 July 2019

Cape Flats residents cheer arrival of army

Military deployed on Mandela Day to help quell Cape Town’s gang crime

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Photo Essay | 19 July 2019