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20 June 2013
                       
 
 
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13 Jun 2013
 
 
 
 
What Guptagate says about the rule of law in South Africa
INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES
If any further evidence was needed that there is indeed a threat to the rule of law in South Africa, the recent Guptagate saga should convincingly provide it. Buttressed by the South African...
 
 
04 Jun 2013
 
Can public involvement improve the quality of police recruitment in South Africa?
INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES
Can the high level of police brutality, corruption and misconduct in South Africa be blamed on poor recruitment processes? The Minister of Police, Nathi Mthethwa, admitted to Parliament’s Police...
 
 
Public Works official guilty in lease deal
LEASE DEAL
Senior public works official Sam Vukela has been found guilty of charges relating to a police lease deal with businessman Roux Shabangu, an official said on Monday. "He was charged for being...
 
 
05 Apr 2013
 
Cele loses 'shoot to kill' defamation case
WEBBER WENTZEL
On 14 February 2013 Judge Kathree-Setiloane handed down judgment dismissing a claim by former National Police Commissioner, Bheki Cele, for damages of R 200,000.00 for defamation, alternatively for...
 
 
22 Mar 2013
 
Blaming militarisation for police brutality is aiming at the wrong target
INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES
The death of Mozambican taxi driver Mido Macia after being dragged behind a police van in Daveyton has again focused attention on the problem of police brutality. Questions are being asked about...
 
 
04 Mar 2013
 
DA: Statement by Dianne Kohler Barnard, DA Shadow Minister of Police, states that President Zuma must establish a Judicial Commission of Inquiry into police brutality (03/03/2013)
STATEMENT
The response by the government and the SAPS has not been good enough. Where is the plan to deal with this problem? Why did the despicable murder of Andries Tatane, and the images of miners being...
 
 
21 Dec 2012
 
Forces of change voted out
ANC ROAD TO MANGAUNG
The so-called 'Forces of Change' which had resisted ANC president Jacob Zuma's re-election were voted out of the party's national executive committee on Thursday. None of those who contested the...
 
 
06 Dec 2012
 
To what extent has the South African Police Service become militarised?
INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES
The Marikana tragedy, coupled with high levels of police brutality, has been understood by some as being partly a consequence of the militarisation of the South African Police Service (SAPS). The...
 
 
29 Nov 2012
 
SA: Dennis Bloem: Address by the Congress of the People Acting Chief Whip, during the debate on the Protection of State Information Bill, Parliament, Cape Town (29/11/2012)
SPEECH
In our first public hearing in Gugulethu Cape Town, the first speaker there was a women, her name was Matilda Groepe. She asked the Committee if Politicians had anything to hide? If there were...
 
 
23 Nov 2012
 
IFP: Statement by Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Inkatha Freedom Party Leader, on violence in South Africa and the 16 Days of Activism campaign (23/11/2012)
STATEMENT
The continuation of violence in KwaZulu Natal has prompted many debates and questions. In a recent public dialogue arranged by the Xubera Institute for Research and Development, former National...
 
 
08 Nov 2012
 
Solidarity: Statement by Dirk Hermann, Solidarity Deputy General Secretary, affirmative action case postponed pending final ruling in Renate Barnard case (08/11/2012)
STATEMENT
Trade union Solidarity and the South African Police Service (SAPS) today agreed in the Labour Court in Braamfontein to postpone a case regarding affirmative action between the two parties until a...
 
 
21 Oct 2012
 
DA: Statement by Debbie Schafer, Democratic Alliance Shadow Deputy Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development, on charges arising from police lease still under investigation by Hawks (21/10/2012)
STATEMENT
In August last year, DA MP Wilmot James and I laid criminal charges at the Claremont Police Station against then General Bheki Cele, Minister Gwen Mahlangu-Nkabinde, Mr Roux Shabangu and Mr Siviwe...
 
 
10 Oct 2012
 
SA: Statement by Dianne Kohler Barnard, Democratic Alliance Shadow Minister of Police, on South African Police Service officials without valid driver’s licences (10/10/2012)
STATEMENT
A reply to a DA parliamentary question has revealed that 16 594 South African Police Service (SAPS) officials do not have valid driver’s licences. As of May 2012, the SAPS had 157 380 operational...
 
 
08 Oct 2012
 
What to do About the Steady Erosion of the Rule of Law in South Africa?
INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES
Following an eight-year legal battle, in April 2009 the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) announced that it was ‘neither possible nor desirable for the NPA to continue with the prosecution of...
 
 
19 Sep 2012
 
DA: Statement by Dianne Kohler Barnard, Democratic Alliance Shadow Minister of Police, declares that crime statistics must reveal arrest and conviction rates (19/09/2012)
STATEMENT
The annual release of the national crime statistics tomorrow will most likely reveal incremental changes in crime statistics, but what we need is a massive and sustained drop in the overall level...
 
 
 
                       
 
 
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