In 2014, Judge Kate O'Regan and Advocate Vusi Pikoli chaired a commission of inquiry into policing in Khayelitsha. GroundUp covered the inquiry in depth. Here are our reports as well as contributed opinion pieces from the inquiry.
Construction of a permanent station in Makhaza will start next year, says Bheki Cele
News | 17 May 2024
Meanwhile the community is being serviced by a 24-hour patrol and a mobile unit
News | 11 December 2023
This comes nearly nine years after the Khayelitsha Commission of Inquiry into policing recommended that a new station be built in Makhaza
News | 29 March 2023
Constitutional Court says it does not have jurisdiction on matter
By Liezl Human
News | 20 July 2022
Bheki Cele’s 2018 promise will not be kept until 2025-6
Brief | 18 May 2022
Police say construction of a permanent police station still on the cards for Khayelitsha
Brief | 2 November 2021
Community wants police minister and other government departments to account for lack of action on commission’s recommendations
News | 26 August 2021
Land for the Makhaza police station was identified already in 2004
News | 16 April 2021
Five years after Khayelitsha Commission of Inquiry, recommendation to build new station still not implemented
News | 27 September 2019
Police ministry and SAPS continue to fail the vulnerable and the poor, says activist
Brief | 26 August 2019
“People would rather resolve an issue themselves than wait for police”
News | 5 June 2019
Victory for Social Justice Coalition may result in poorer areas getting more officers
By Thembela Ntongana and GroundUp Staff
Brief | 14 December 2018
Magistrate’s decision greeted with tears by protesters
News | 27 June 2018
“It cannot be we parachute in and parachute out,” resident tells police minister at launch of latest crime prevention operation in Cape Town
News | 16 May 2018
Activists want court to declare that present system discriminates against poor people
Law | 27 November 2017
“People are being targeted even going to the toilet”
News | 30 August 2017