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Why SA cops are so brutal

By GRAEME HOSKEN Negligent police management, poor training, disrespect for law and order, criminal members within police ranks and blatant disregard for internal disciplinary procedures are the chief causes behind the scourge ...

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Cop brutality is not on the rise – Bheki Cele (1.5.2011)

By Llewellyn prince and René-Jean van der Berg Police chief General Bheki Cele believes that recent police killings have been isolated incidents. Statistics, however, show that at least 566 people have died at ...

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Lack of training – Policing (2.5.2011)

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. ...

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Will Ficksburg cops get bail? (29.4.2011)

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 ...

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Brutality by police 'not isolated'

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 ...

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Petros slams Kempton Park Police Station shooting (28.04.11)

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 ...

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'Police brutality' condemned after woman's death (28.04.11)

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 ...

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