Policing

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Dagga spraying: police ‘expert’ accused of bad science

Activists and doctors question ties to agrochemical firms

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Feature | 5 May 2016

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We live in fear without freedom, say Nyanga residents

Freedom Day protest at police station

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News | 28 April 2016

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McDonald’s shooting: family suspects police cover-up

Sister of dead man still in the dark

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News | 26 April 2016

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Bonteheuwel residents demand more police

“There has been shooting on a daily basis” says resident of 50 years

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News | 25 April 2016

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Why didn’t police stop looting of immigrant shops in Dunoon?

“The police shouldn’t just protect South Africans”

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Feature | 25 April 2016

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Burned bodies of murder accused found in Motherwell

Grisly find on way to school

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News | 20 April 2016

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Immigrant-owned shops looted in Dunoon

Cops accused of not being there to protect stores

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News | 18 April 2016

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Mobile police station is a “sleep van”, says resident

Vusi Pikoli hears Masiphumelele residents' complaints about cops

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News | 14 April 2016

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Why we are taking the Minister of Police to court

Police resource allocation is an apartheid remnant

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Opinion | 14 April 2016

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Enkanini residents protest at police failure to find missing woman

Anelisa Daluze has been missing since January

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Brief | 13 April 2016

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Activists take police minister to court

Demand equitable allocation of resources between rich and poor areas

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News | 30 March 2016

Civil society organisations defend Helen Suzman Foundation

Activist groups condemn "thuggish" raid

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Brief | 22 March 2016

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SJC march for justice in Khayelitsha

The murder and rape of Sinoxolo Mafevuka triggers anger at lack of policing

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News | 15 March 2016

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Nigerians expelled from Western Cape town

Fourteen people flee Wolseley after crowd marches against them, loots their shops, and accuses them of murder and drug-dealing

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News | 4 March 2016

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Diepsloot finally gets a police station

It has opened eight years after initial discussions

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News | 22 February 2016

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Rastafarians protest against police brutality

An article by Eduard Grebe highlighting police brutality spurred the Cape Town Rastafarian community to protest outside Woodstock Police Station today.

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News | 14 January 2016