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On 13 April millions of South Africans saw news footage showing a group of police beating an unarmed protester with batons in Meqheleng, a township outside Ficksburg in South Africa’s Free State Province. ...

By Rahima Essop Community leaders are calling for calm in Ficksburg amid concerns that violence will erupt, if the officers implicated in Andries Tatane’s death are granted bail on Friday. Tatane was beaten ...

Brutality by police ‘not isolated’(29.4.2011) By Steven Tau President Jacob Zuma yesterday condemned incidents of police brutality. Addressing journalists in Johannesburg, Zuma expressed concern at the way some of the country’s police officers ...

By Andrea van Wyk The Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation on Thursday said that senior policemen are not acknowledging the seriousness of the problem of police brutality. In the latest incident, a ...

By Andrea van Wyk & Rahima Essop Gauteng Police Commissioner Mzwandile Petros on Thursday strongly condemned Tuesday’s incident in which a woman was shot dead, allegedly by a police officer, outside the Kempton Park Police ...

By Tara Meaney & Andrea van Wyk The Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation on Thursday condemned the latest incident of apparent police brutality. Jeannette Odendaal was shot and killed, allegedly by a ...

By Rahima Essop As the Free State town of Ficksburg waits on tenterhooks ahead of Friday’s bail judgment, the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation on Wednesday warned there is a possibility of ...