Policing
Philippi satellite police station to open after two-year wait
The community is desperate for more policing
Brief | 13 June 2024
Public Protector releases damning report on the handling of gender-based violence complaints
Report says the departments of Justice, Police and Social Development are falling short
News | 4 June 2024
New police station finally opens in Khayelitsha, ending a nearly 20-year wait
Construction of a permanent station in Makhaza will start next year, says Bheki Cele
News | 17 May 2024
The traffic department that hasn’t issued a ticket for years
“We used to have ticket books, but they were stolen” says a traffic officer in Ngcobo, Eastern Cape
By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik and Johnnie Isaac
News | 15 May 2024
Finally, five months after police were filmed assaulting a barber, they have been charged
Juma Igiranieza was brutally assaulted during an unexpected raid
News | 15 April 2024
Police drive into woman, break her pelvis, shoot rubber bullets into crowd and drive off
Nolwazi Tokhwe from Capricorn is being treated in hospital. She also has a fractured spine and injured right arm.
News | 28 March 2024
Damning report on “state of disrepair” of many police stations
The committee recommended that SAPS finds a way to be less dependent on Public Works
News | 28 March 2024
How to spend 12 years building a police station
Minister Sihle Zikalala has promised the Vuwani police station will be completed in 2025. Work on it started in 2012.
News | 15 March 2024
Cape Town protection money syndicates kill people, kill livelihoods
A salon owner was shot dead on Wednesday apparently for refusing to pay protection money
News | 7 March 2024