Policing

11-year-old killed as police van crashes into shack in Cape Town

Angry residents set van alight

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News | 6 October 2025

Billions needed to fix courts, prisons and police buildings

Department of Public Works has a R30-billion maintenance backlog

By GroundUp and The Outlier

Charts | 3 October 2025

Accused cop bunks court because of his dog’s “retirement party”

Regan Naidoo police brutality case postponed again: “Now we’re really angry”, says family

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Law | 30 September 2025

Twist in rape cover-up trial

Court hears that an internal hearing cleared one of the three police officers on trial

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Brief | 23 September 2025

Delayed justice: police torture trial postponed for seven months

The hearing was originally set down for July 2024 but will now only be heard in April 2026

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News | 22 September 2025

Chart of the week: Getting guns off the streets

Nearly 22,000 guns were confiscated over the past five years. Almost 7,000 confiscated guns were linked to murder cases.

Text by Zora Hollie. Graph by The Outlier.

Charts | 19 September 2025

Police van crashes into shacks, injures two, and leaves families homeless

The families say SAPS only took their statements a week after the incident

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News | 18 September 2025

Cape Town journalist assaulted by police, has phone confiscated – twice

Freelance reporter Sandiso Phaliso has been repeatedly, and illegally, harassed by police while working in Nyanga

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News | 15 September 2025

Magistrate postpones Durban police rape cover-up trial

The trial of three officers was postponed due to a funeral

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Brief | 12 September 2025

Police fire rubber bullets, stun grenades and tear gas at Joburg water protest

“We are just asking for water, which is our human right”

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Brief | 10 September 2025

Gang violence forces Kariega families to abandon their homes

More than 30 homes torched or vandalised as criminals target community leaders and witnesses in a suspected campaign of intimidation

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News | 10 September 2025

SAPS HQ fiasco: MPs lose patience with Public Works Minister

Committee members want to see the forensic report on Telkom Towers

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News | 10 September 2025

PAGAD marches against gang violence on the Cape Flats

The organisation marched under close police supervision in Mitchells Plain on Sunday

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Brief | 8 September 2025

Kraaifontein residents protest about living conditions

Lists of demands handed over to City of Cape Town, Western Cape health department and SAPS

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Brief | 28 August 2025

Kariega residents march for better policing

“Protection fees are demanded from our children by other learners at schools, and they end up dropping out.”

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Brief | 19 August 2025

SA police: No evidence of Lesotho rebel army

Lesotho’s security chiefs have claimed there are illegal military training camps on SA farms

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Brief | 28 July 2025