Cape Town - Draft legislation seeking to change the circumstances in which police officers may use deadly force came under the scrutiny of MPs on Wednesday.Members of Parliament's justice portfolio committee are examining the criminal ...
Read MoreGareth Stokes South Africa is not a police state, yet. But in recent months we’ve witnessed some alarming developments. It started with the re-militarisation of police ranks and the immediate transition of our National Police ...
Read MoreSIPHO 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 ...
Read MoreWYNDHAM 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 ...
Read MoreDavid 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 ...
Read MoreIt 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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