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Minister faces R20m suit (10.8.2011)

SIPHO MASONDO Maya, 59, is the father of Zakhele Maya, the community leader who helped organise last year's service-delivery protests in Siyathemba township in Balfour, Mpumalanga. Following the protests the police stormed into ...

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Change in law 'will increase killings by police' (4.8.2011)

WYNDHAM HARTLEY CAPE TOWN — High levels of police shootings will be made worse by proposed changes in the law dealing with the use of lethal force, the Centre for the Study of Violence and ...

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Only police chiefs can end it (24.4.2011)

  David Bruce David Bruce: Pictures in the press this week of six policemen standing in the dock in connection with the death of Andries Tatane in Meqheleng, outside Ficksburg, last week, are in many ...

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Press Statement: Call for police use of lethal force to be based on 'protection of life' principle

3 August 2011 Press Statement CSVR submission to Portfolio Committee on Justice and Constitutional Development Call for police use of lethal force to be based on ‘protection of life’ principle  In the run up to ...

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A place of violence, where necklacing is the only choice

It was one crime too many for New Brighton. Two men broke into an elderly woman's home, stole her television, and then stabbed her tenant to death when he tried to protect her. ...

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Necklacing re-ignites in SA vigilantism

It was one crime too many for New Brighton. Two men broke into an elderly woman's home, stole her television, and then stabbed her tenant to death when he tried to protect her. ...

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Horror of necklacings return to SA

Tabelo Timse 'Over a period of less than two weeks, we had about six incidents of this kind'  HORRIFIC DEATH: This graphic picture taken over 25 years ago shows the body of Tamsanqa ...

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