Crime
Nyanga residents attack suspected TV thief
Nyanga residents are looking for a 20 year old man accused of stealing a plasma TV from his neighbour and said to be a rapist and a gangster.
Pharie Sefali
News | 23 April 2014
Peter trial: Defence questions how burnt witness could have fingered accused
The trial of Angy Peter and Isaac Mbadu continued last week after a two week recess. Peter and Mbadu are on trial, along with two others, Azola Dayimani and Christopher Dina, for the murder by ‘necklacing’ of Rowan du Preez in October 2012.
Simone Haysom
News | 23 April 2014
Khayelitsha cops: “We are the whipping boys”
While the Marikana hearings drift through the doldrums in Rustenberg, at Khayelitsha’s Lookout Hill another commission into police failings is cautiously gathering momentum. The O’Regan-Pikoli Commission of Inquiry is a timely and consolatory reminder of the judicial efficiency South Africa is capable of.
Richard Conyngham
Opinion | 22 April 2014
Trial that’s more important than Pistorius
While Oscar Pistorius’s trial is one of the most watched in history, the trial of Angy Peter and Isaac Mbadu has been running at the same time. It tells us far more about crime, policing and justice in South Africa than the Pistorius one.
Joel Bregman
Feature | 22 April 2014
SJC “delighted” at progress of Khayelitsha Commission
The Social Justice Coalition is “delighted” at the progress of the Khayelitsha Commission of Inquiry into policing, said the coalition’s Joel Bregman.
Adam Armstrong
News | 16 April 2014
Murder in Ceres: gay people are not safe, says activist
Activist Kenith Abrahams, who was a friend of David Olyn, a gay man murdered in Ceres three weeks ago, says gay people in the community do not feel safe.
Pharie Sefali
News | 15 April 2014
Enkanini’s “field of death”
Residents of Enkanini informal settlement in Khayelitsha say they have taken it upon themselves to deal with thugs that are terrorising the community.
Johnnie Isaac
News | 14 April 2014
Call to make secret police document public
SAPS provincial commissioner General Arno Lamoer is to recommend to the National Commissioner that the police resource allocation guide, which outlines the resources available at each police station, be made available to the public.
Adam Armstrong
News | 2 April 2014
Who Killed Moses Tshake?
A man trying to fight corruption and restore financial discipline in the Free State was hijacked and maimed in February 2013, and died the following May. Moses Tshake was asking questions about the province’s corrupt agricultural projects before he died. Now the investigation into his murder has stalled. Mandy de Waal and Jon Pienaar investigate why.
Mandy de Waal and Jon Pienaar
News | 1 April 2014